“He gave our language extra shine,” Rob de Nijs indicated that one of the first teenage idols could not be opened yesterday. Eva Eigen by Leo Blokhuis, Leon Verdonschot and Henkjan Smits, who recalled memories of an icon. Even Frans Timmermans – who was there to explain that Putin had never kept to one appointment – thought it was great, as Rob de Nijs always stayed himself. Fortunately, he knows more about Putin and Europe, because that was a fairly meaningless remark for those who consider everywhere that the Kameleontic side of the Nijs emerged, in his eternal search for appreciation.
Bee Eva there was clear room for airiness about the Nijs than Bar lateand more attempt was made to explain why he only got recognition so late. The Nijs was the singer who says he says as a style icon in the Private was treated where Boudewijn de Groot in the music magazine Ear stood. It was a nice typing, and that Eva In fact, the Nijs came out of the bus was mainly due to Verdonschot, of whom his previously made documentary later in the evening Not last The Nijs was repeated.
That documentary was not a hagiography, and therefore good. A brother who lovingly had some apples to peel with his brother spoke. Rob de Nijs had been a crying baby, and then claimed all the attention as asthmatic burden suit. And his ex-wife Belinda Meuldijk, with whom he not only had two sons, but who had also written numerous strong lyrics for him, spoke. “The ego is from LEGO, you just break it off,” she summarized her ex-man briefly. The camera fell for a moment when the Nijs asked where Belinda and the boys stayed at a birthday party. Someone answered little compassionate that Belinda might be on the road again. In the meantime there was also a beautiful archive image and you got a true portrait of the Nijs, always nervous, looking for appreciation.
A big difference with the interview that Ivo Niehe had taken up a few years before the Nijs’ death, and that was again broadcast. Here it was not so much the Nijs himself or people from his environment who spoke, such as at Verdonschot, but especially Niehe himself. Ivo Niehe is always better prepared for the life of the interviewee than the interviewee himself. This is also the case here, the Nijs did not have to say much more during the conversation than ‘yes’. When it became complicated, Niehe quickly closed with: “But it worked out well.”
The Meilandjes
Where the Nijs’ songs were frequently praised, the ideal of giving shine to the language also hangs on seeing the ‘Meilandjes’ who are looking for a house in Italy in Chateau Meiland. Martien Meiland and his brother set out together and view houses that they share with the home front screaming through Facetime. “What is it low,” one shouted while the men had space over their heads. She also bumped into the whole idea that cars drove in Italy. There was little budget, they said, but the demands were no less. Wanting to sit in first rank for a dime, it is called in good Dutch.
I suddenly wondered how a conversation would go between Meiland and Frits Spits in the radio program Language. “Girl, it was a huge hassle in Italy,” Meiland would say, after which he would tell extensively about the frogs he had seen in a swimming pool. The true shine of the Dutch language would come up if he was sitting on a toilet in one of the Italian houses: “This is totally good with your legs.” There is a good chance that Spits would end his conversation with Meiland early to quickly set up a song by Rob de Nijs.