The Critics
Byam Sellem
Vitriolic critic with the London Evening News, Sellem has become the darling of the reactionary right.
Educated in Florence, Rome and Venice, where he still shares a canal-side pallazzo with his catamite Ermenegildo Vivaldi, Sellem is the best-educated of all the London critics.
Accused by his detractors of clinging to an oumoded connoisseurial methodology, he remains unapologetic about his prejudices and proclivities.
Recently
Sellem has begun writing about cars, the Church, aerobics,
nutrition and terrapin-farming. Nevertheless, he still finds
time to breed Rottweilers (he has twelve in his various homes)
and has just completed a scholarly treatise on the cultural
history of flagellation.
This early picture (left) of the young Sellem, taken in his
parents' garden in Rome in 1950, shows the first unsettling
signs of instability in the young aesthete's adolescent
development. Alcoholism and persistent drug abuse have dogged
his career, but he claims to have finally conquered his early
love of the tutu.
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