Letters to the Editor
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My vote...
...goes to the shockingly unrecognized Gael Garcia Bernal. Did no one on the Salon staff see "The Motorcycle Diaries"?
Ditto on the Fiennes brothers (Ralph and Joseph) and Rufus Sewell ("Dark City," "Dangerous Beauty").
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Veto power
I love all these posts vetoing others' nominations for sex idols. Like you can talk people out of their tastes. It reminds me of Jack Black in School of Rock telling the kids their taste in music is incorrect.
Speaking of which: Jack Black. Just sayin'.
OK, cue the curmudgeons telling me I can't actually find someone that fat and white attractive.
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A couple more
KEITH OLBERMANN (too bad he's off the market thanks to his 24 year-old girlfried, go keith!)
STEVEN WEBBER (remember him, he's back on tv in Alan Sorkin's Studio 60, I forgot how sexy he was, plus he called in to Stephanie Miller's show today and was getting all worked up about how last week's election was just the first step to taking the country back etc...love it!)
JOHN EDWARDS (love the acent and his fantastic smile, plus I met him once and he's even better looking in person, dripping w/ carisma!!)
JAMES SPADER circa 1985 but today...not so much.
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Oooh Fun!
I can't believe you left off Daniel Day Kim, I have been crushing on that guy since he was the lawyer in Wolfram & Hart on Angel and love Lost because he's there.
Plus I have to wholeheartdly second Viggo Mortenson, GI Jane, LOTR, Hildalgo, History of Violence all just, just such a man!
I also second, third, fourth James Spader, Chow-Yun Fat, and Benicio Del Toro.
I have to disagree with Phyllip, that guy has been creeping me out since Boogie Nights. I'd rather wake up next to Andy Richter or Jack Black than that guy.
Otherwise great list, I thought I was the only one who had a thing for Alton Brown!
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Leonard Nimoy
One of my earliest memories is of my mother and her four sisters sitting in our cramped, yellow linoleum kitchen drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes and talking about Leonard Nimoy. They debated his ethnicity and decided that with those full lips and that velvet baritone voice that he was colored, like us. They craved Spock's calm, his honesty, his loyalty--so different from the men in their own lives. "He just looks like he smells good," my mother sighed.
This past September, I happily paid an outrageous amount of money to have my picture taken with Mr. Nimoy. At age 75, he's still as beautiful as ever. And talk about star power. You can feel his personality from across the room.
I remembered to breathe when it came my turn to sit next to him for the photo. He does smell really good.
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Hank Azaria anyone???
I just watched the entire first season of Huff (Showtime) and can not believe he has been hiding behind a cartoon for so long!! (Simpsons)
More, Hank, More!!
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"Something inside of me leaped...and it wasn't my heart"
What a refreshing and...stirring, article. And so true! I thoroughly enjoyed it. I never really thought about why it is most of those popular "sexy" actors ever did much for me. I see it all so clearly now! Brad Pitt is gorgeous to look at, there is no denying that. But when he talks, I think he sounds DUMB. He might be bright, but to me he sounds like a stoned frat boy...or something along those lines. (Not that there's anything wrong with being stoned, or being a frat boy, of course.) And I think his acting is flat. I'm not trying to be mean. He's probably a perfectly nice person and seems to be a humanitarian.
Some of the men mentioned in the article I had already noticed, some I hadn't thought of like that but now that you mention it, yes! Thank you for giving these men the recognition they deserve, not just for their humor or knowledge or other accomplishments but yes, for their attractiveness.
I really do wonder if, deep down in their, uh, souls, if men have this same need for mental stimulation for a full turn-on. Or even if all women do. It seems to me the way men are wired, they can take the physical attraction with no mental stimulation necessary, thank you very much. And at least sometimes, they even prefer the physical part only. Now don't try to tell me it varies from person to person, or depending on age, upbringing, etc. We are all the same animal, aren't we? Come on, guys. There has to be someone brave enough out there to give me an honest answer.
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Straight white male here...
... and even I noticed the vanilla flavour of this list. I mean Lawrence Fishburne and Samuel Jackson immediately spring to mind as "men I would like to be for a day."
BTW - Watch the Two Towers in a room full of women. The moment when Aragon, having barely escaped death, bursts through the twin doors of that castle ... the sighs are audible.
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I thought I was the only one...
who developed a crush on Stephen Colbert after he dished it out to GWB! You go, guy!
But, in the meantime, I have discovered a whole new genre of very attractive men - Futbol Mexicano (Mexican soccer), which I found by accident while surfing the Spanish language channels in order to augment my Spanish study. It's on weekend afternoons, but I think the season is closing soon.
Whoa!! I've never seen so many handsome men in one place ever, in my life! Plus, they are all superb athletes. Mi corazon!! I think I'm going to enjoy living in Mexico... :)
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George Clooney
George Clooney. Huff Post's straw poll agrees with me big time.
Don't even have to say why.
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I Musta Been Dreaming...
I said Julie Christie licked toothpaste off Peter O'Toole's mouth in "Don't Look Now" (the sexiest sex scene in an English-speaking movie) but it was Donald Sutherland's kisser she was lapping. Fie on everybody out there who gets grossed out by the idea of older men being sexy. It's all automatic to you tyros out there, but once a guy has some serious mileage on him, everything means sooo much more.
Don Cheadle's going to be even more delectable when he's 60, believe me! And yeah---I shoulda mentioned Chow Yun Fat. He can dunk his socks in my coffee any time.