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Executive Editor, New Orleans Magazine & Louisiana Life Magazine
Errol Laborde holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of New Orleans and is the Editor in Chief of Renaissance Publishing. In that capacity he serves as Editor/Associate Publisher of
New Orleans Magazine and Editor/ Publisher of
Louisiana Life Magazine. Errol is also a producer and a regular panelist on Informed Sources, a weekly news discussion program broadcast on public television station WYES-TV, Channel 12. Errol is a three-time winner of the Alex Waller Award, the highest award given in print journalism by the New Orleans Press Club. Errol’s most recent books are Krewe: The Early Carnival from Comus to Zulu and Marched the Day God, a history of the Rex organization. In his free time he enjoys playing tennis and traveling with his wife Peggy to anywhere they can get away to, but some of his favorite spots are the Caribbean and historic locations around Louisiana. You can reach Errol at
An exercise in Verhoevian extremity. Courtesy of Kino Lorber
Spetters is a coming-of-age dramedy done Verhoeven-style. But there are certainly some familiar tropes throughout the film. Teenaged characters in this case, motocross racers aspiring to lives outside their boring-ass provincial town. Sexual hijinks. A hot, slightly older seductress whom the three boys at the center of the film Rien, Eef, and Hans all have boners for. Religious parents who have no clue the shit their sons get up to. Etc. etc.
But then there are elements that are sooooooo Verhoevian in their extremeties. Like when Rien, Eef, and Hans violently assault a gay man walking down the street. Or when they participate in a literal dick-measuring contest and start to visibly jack their limp penises off to get a more accurate measurement. And, in the most disturbing scene, when Eef gets gang-raped by gay hustlers in retaliation for ripping them off. (This rape, apparently, helps him come out of the closet.)
Time for Change Recently my sons had a future vision of returning to Disneyland in which they exclaimed their desire to ride Splash Mountain once more.