Remember Lorenzo the Magnificent in Bonus 34? He brought his friend, this extraordinary man, to my office for inspection. Which he quickly passed. I recall him as full of smiles, less smouldering, less intense than Lorenzo, and eager to become a model, for this was his first time before the camera.
Even before Lorenzo appeared in the November 1984 Mandate, his friend had been photographed and scheduled for the December cover and a multi-page photo layout. The same lucky photographer — Usher — shot both of them. Why, I wonder, didn’t I commission a shoot with the two of them together.
I find the Indiana Jones motifs — khaki hat and shirt, whip — and the sickly green background on several pages de trop. That’s probably because I found the movie unbearably tedious. But when I look into those eyes, tedium vanishes.