Like any budding gay boy of that era, of course he thought she could only be Marlene Dietrich.
Every budding trough boy needs a trough man, and over the decades Sydney's top "Troughman," Leethal Elliot, has transformed his fetish for piss into a political act.
To Noh, "gay" describes the kathoey, outrageously effeminate students at his school, budding "lady-boys".
Sure, they have adventures, but all that hiding from cops, nearly getting beaten up by American-football-playing pimps and stalking girls is less the point to this delightfully picaresque story than the boys' budding bromance.
Turturro says that his father emigrated from Italy as a boy (a "budding young Fascist"), became a patriotic American, joined the Navy, survived a sinking on D Day, and later "made me watch documentaries with material about the concentration camps".
Or how many of us are sitting down with our young boys -- budding athletes, artists, scientists, doctors, spiritual leaders -- and having a conversation with them about how what happens behind doors matters -- every single time -- it matters.
This Harry Potter is less Prince Hal than a budding Henry V; less the callow boy in "The Sword in the Stone" and more of the young King Arthur.
Set in a wintry Stockholm suburb where even the drunks look slightly marooned, "Let the Right One In" revolves around the budding attraction between a slender boy named Oskar, who is savagely bullied at school, and Ms. Leandersson's Eli, his new neighbor in the apartment next door.
Watch the video to learn more about these two boys and their budding friendship.
Imagine not the gleam in a boyfriend's eye but a fractured plot point, the machinations of high school, my clumsy attempt at making one boy jealous with a budding revolutionary.
