Rutger
Hauer, the versatile Dutch leading man of the ’70s who went on star in the 1982
“Blade Runner” as Roy Batty, died July 19 at his home in the Netherlands after
a short illness. He was 75.
Rutger
Oelsen Hauer. was born Jan. 23, 1944, in Breukelen, the Netherlands, near
Amsterdam. Though both his parents were acting teachers, he took a circuitous
route to the craft. He ran away from home at 15 to join the Dutch merchant
navy; after returning to Amsterdam in 1962 he briefly studied acting, but
exited school again for a stint in the army.
Finally
committing himself to the stage, he became a member of the touring experimental
troupe Noorder Compagnie, in which he acted, directed and served as costume
designer and translator for several years.
His
major break came in 1969 when Paul Verhoeven cast him in the title role of “Floris,”
an Ivanhoe-like knight who becomes embroiled in court intrigue upon his return
from the Crusades. The show proved wildly popular, and Hauer reprised the part
in a 1975 revival of the series, “Floris von Rosemund.”
By that
time, the steamy, affecting “Turkish Delight” had firmly established him as the
Netherlands’ top B.O. attraction. He reunited with Verhoeven and his co-star
van de Ven for the period drama “Katie Tippel” (1975); he renewed his
collaboration with the director with the World War II saga “Soldier of Orange”
(1977) and the bold contemporary drama “Spetters” (1980).
Hauer
made an almost immediate and intense impression as Batty in his sophomore
American feature “Blade Runner,” an adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep?” He wrote his own dialog for the film’s climactic
face-off with his adversary Ford. Though the film swiftly fell off screens, it
remains a genre landmark today, in no small measure because of Hauer’s
electrifying performance.
His film
credits include Flesh+Blood, Blind Fury, Blade Runner, The Hitcher, Escape from
Sobibor (for which he won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor),
Nighthawks, Wedlock, Sin City, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Ladyhawke,
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Osterman Weekend, The Blood of Heroes, Batman
Begins, Hobo with a Shotgun, and The Rite.
Rust zacht Rutger
It is already three weeks ago that we had our last party. Real life kept me busy and I been working on the sim for some big changes. About that I tell you more in the next post. First the snapshots of the pizza party with DJ Zee. Zee had made a great set, as always, in theme and we had fun with the TRIVIA I made. 
Rutger
Hauer, the versatile Dutch leading man of the ’70s who went on star in the 1982
“Blade Runner” as Roy Batty, died July 19 at his home in the Netherlands after
a short illness. He was 75.
A pizza
party is a social gathering at which pizza is served.
Pizza is a savory dish of Italian origin, consisting of a usually round, flattened
base of leavened wheat-based dough topped with tomatoes, cheese, and various
other ingredients (anchovies, olives, meat, etc.) baked at a high temperature,
traditionally in a wood-fired oven. In formal settings, like a restaurant,
pizza is eaten with knife and fork, but in casual settings it is cut into
wedges to be eaten while held in the hand. Small pizzas are sometimes called
pizzettas. 
