Re.: Christmas Candy

via email from Betty Anonymous:

The first three boys, I have to agree with Betty Barbara there, „are entirely Too Young to be RDD material“. Nikolaj has a 'beak of a nose', but I would not call it handsome and therefore he doesn’t qualify. I don’t know many Dutch actors. Tall? Perhaps. Big with it. Afraid not. (Actually there is one who is large. But apart from sporting an untidy beard he always has an unruly mop of hair, he isn’t handsome enough, and his form is rather rotund, so, no, he doesn’t qualify.) Beaky nose? Hm. Blond? That’s where it get’s really difficult.

Not blond.

Jeroen Krabbé is a famous Dutch actor, whom you may have seen. Or not. (I remember him as the bad guy in Crossing Delancey. Here is a picture of him as the bad guy, Dr Charles Nichols, in The Fugitive.

There is a blond Dutch actor, though, whom you all know, I dare say. He is tall, blond, has blue/light blue-gray eyes and a slightly beaky nose. And he is considered to be a handsome man. (Can I see him as BN material? – No.)
Rutger Hauer



There is an American actor who qualifies, in a way, for several reasons.

Tall? – Not overly. Only 5 ft 9.
Vast? – No.
Blond? – Dark. But then not all of the RDDs are fair.
Casper van Dien


Casper Robert van Dien, Jr., born 1968 in Ridgewood, New Jersey

Van Dien is a descendant of an old Dutch family long settled in the New York area; his other heritage includes Swedish, French, English and Native American. (Dutch: check)

The street on which Van Dien grew up in Ridgewood, New Jersey, Van Dien Avenue, was named after his great great grandfather. ('It's a castle!' she exclaimed. 'No, it's a Middle Ages red-brick house called a stins; we have no castles as such and not many of the stinsen remain.': check – sort of) – An Unlikely Romance

The name Casper is a family tradition, given to the eldest son of his family for more than 11 generations. (Little Duert, little Hugo, little Coenraad...: check)

There is a long military tradition in Van Dien's family. Aside from his father, Casper Robert Van Dien, Sr., a retired U.S. Navy Commander and fighter pilot, his grandfather was a Marine during World War II. When Van Dien was older, his family moved to Florida, where he enrolled at the St. Petersburg campus of the Admiral Farragut Academy, graduating 3rd in command. Next, he went to Florida State University in Tallahassee. ('Was your father a surgeon, too?' 'Yes, and his father before him.' – check – up to a point) – The Fortunes of Francesca

1993 - 1997 married to Carrie Mitchum, they have two children,
Casper "Cappy" Robert Van Dien III and Caroline Dorothy Grace "Gracie" Van Dien
1999 - married to Catherine Oxenburg, they have two daughters, Maya and Celeste Alma


Oxenberg and Van Dien are celebrity ambassadors for the non-profit organization Childhelp.
(She additionally agreed to join several of the charity committees too because it was expected of her. – check) – An Unlikely Romance

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