Alexander Chee's haunting first novel, EDINBURGH (Welcome Rain, $25), introduces us to Fee, a 12-year-old Korean-American boy who discovers his homosexuality not long before the director of the professional boys' choir he belongs to begins molesting him and several other boys.
They are very professional boys and gave it their best.
As the Backstreet Boys documentary "Show 'Em What You're Made Of" successfully debuted in January and Season 21 of ABC's "Dancing with the Stars" continues on with Carter -- a professional boy-band dancer -- dominating the competition, 2015 has been a year more similar to others in this decade to the 1997 "Everybody" debut, when bodies were rocked right.
Truffaut hired Jean-Pierre Cargol, a young non-professional boy from the Romany community, as Victor, while Herzog chose Bruno S, who spent most of his adolescence in mental institutions, to play Kaspar.
Even (or maybe especially), if that son is Michael Alig, the most notorious professional party boy in the world.
And American Psycho was, now and again, tantalisingly close to being just that - partly due to Harron's deft way with a slapstick set-piece, but largely because she wisely excised the violent grotesqueries that secured Ellis his professional bad boy reputation (and made his novel such heavy going).
The professional barrow boy is opening an outpost of his Jamie's Italian restaurant chain in the Yorkshire spa town…one week after the Tour leaves.
An informal survey of today's professional 'history boys' and girls reveals that I am not alone.
At Speedy's Middletown event, Break Dance 2000, teenagers and adults arrived from all over to join the amateur competition and then watch the exhibition by professional b-boys.
Ultimately, the professional party boys did serve a few years in prison.
It was still managed by professionals, but boy did the Grand Armee succeed.
