Letters to the Editor
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What about Mos Def?
I only skimmed these, so I might have missed him, but damn, is he hot. Even for a gay girl like me.
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can I get some Tony Shaloub here?
Monk and before Monk. The dark-eyed gravity, the inarticulate pain fueling the fussiness, the hot body encased David Byrne-like in a large square suit. That top button firmly closing his shirt at the hollow of the throat? I itch to pop that button off with my teeth.
Amen on Don Cheadle. He's fascinated me ever since he was the magic that made "Volcano" watchable.
As for writers: I have a kind of a Jonathan Lethem thing.
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Dickie Dawkins?
Richard Dawkins me soo sexy?
Me soo smart?
Dawkins the evolutionary scientist ain't so revolutionary, Marx said religion was the opiate of the people too back in the 19th century, and the first thing the people did when they threw off the yolk of oppressive athiesm was bring religion back into the USSR. It didn't work Dick, athiests like religious zealots can be arseholes too.
Dawkins imagination is limited being a rote biologist, he should know about the cosmic time scale. Man trying to prove the existence of god is akin to the ameoba trying to prove the existence of man, it just can't be done. Perhaps this is what Dawkins recognizes when he dismisses God, you just can't prove the existence of anything big when you're only 3.5 billion years up the evolutionary ladder. Dawkins remains an old-hat and even dangerous proponent of ideas of selective human superiority, he's a Darwinian Aryan in tweed.
I've got proof Dick, our solar-system is a carbon atom in God's beard. I'll send you the notes next week.
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Emmitt Smith
Perhaps he might be plain-chocolate man - too easy like George Clooney. But please, did you see him dance? I could not watch those moves without imagining him making them, shall I say, for my benefit. And his baldness - icing on the cake. He was the sexiest man of 2006, hands down.
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As long as we're talking Law and Order...
I can't believe nobody's mentioned Christopher Meloni - yowza! His bit in "Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle" is perfection, and you get to see him in bikini underwear to boot!
BTW, I heartily second Jason Bateman (I've had a crush on him since "Silver Spoons") and Paul Rudd.
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Kevin and Ray
I agree with so many on this list, and with the others people have suggested. I think Salon needs to do a Part 2. I like that most of the men are not pretty boys. I was trying to remember Naveen Andrews' name so I'm glad several people included him - he's one of the very few reasons to sit through The English Patient. And a friend of mine and I also think Alan Rickman is the best thing about Harry Potter. I also can't believe that it took that long to get Chris Meloni on the list. To add to the list, I've been obsessing about Kevin McKidd and Ray Stevenson from "Rome," especially Kevin, with that voice. Yum!
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not-so-obscure objects of desire
Steve Carell definitely should be on the list with Colbert and Stewart. I've always had a soft spot for him even though I'm sweet on the other two as well. Not that I'm suggesting anything.
Second/third etc Eddie Izzard, Gael Garcia Bernal, Forrest Whittaker, Steve Zahn, Paul Rudd, Sam Jackson, Sacha Baron Cohen, Benicio del Toro, Don Cheadle, Zach Braff, Clive Owen, Hank Azaria, Chappell, Craig Ferguson, Tim Robbins, Dean Kamen, Elvis Costello. Steve Buscemi. Zidane.
What about: Darren Aronofsky. Dave Grohl. Doug Aitken. Marcel Dzama. Jason Lee. Jamie Foxx. Wes Anderson. Owen Wilson. Christopher Guest. Jason Schwartzman. Matthew Barney. John Leguizamo. Paul Giamatti.
Enough revery. There's no way to narrow this down to one man, or even one 'type.' For all the talk about men needing 'variety,' seems like that maybe easier for them to do...
[I thought about adding Jack Black, but have decided to keep him for myself.]
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What fun
I'm so glad to know I'm not insane to drool over Alan Rickman. Just the voice alone is worth the price of admission.
Also, my SO already knows I will run away with Stephen Colbert at first opportunity. The frosting on the cake as far as I'm concerned is his LOTR geekdom.
Other nominees. I, like others, was disappointed by the vanilla color of Salon's choices:
-- Laurence Fishburne. Forget Keanu Reeves. Fishburne's the reason to watch the Matrix (though not necessarily its sequels).
-- Neveen Adams. his was the performance of English Patient.
-- Fareed Zakaria. am I the only person to find him kind of hot? he's the only reason to watch the tiresome cliched Sunday morning shows. everyone else is cocooned in their beltway world and attitude.
-- Benicio del Toro.
-- Andre Braugher. I wish someone would offer him a role that equaled Det. Pembleton of Homicide.
Well, here's my vanilla.
-- Viggo Mortensen, the renaissance man. Actor, artist, poet, athlete, took on the role of a lifetime at the behest of his son. and formerly married to a punk goddess!
-- Tim Gunn. forget Doogie Houser. this is the man to make a straight woman wish she were a gay man.
-- Neil Gaiman. the writing. the hair. the accent. but mostly the writing.
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My votes go to...
Bill Clinton (I've had dreams about him; he's got it all: looks, charm, smarts, power, sweetness)
Viggo Mortensen (enough's been said about him already)
Conan O'Brien (funny, smart, cute)
Mark Ruffalo (catch him in "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind")
The guy from the Office (yes, everyone's dream bf)
Ray Nagin (he's so hot when he's mad)
Benicio del Toro
Adrien Brody
James Taylor (he keeps getting sexier...)
Jack White (all that raw angst does it for me)
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How about some musicians... like Neil Finn!!
Great list:
Smart call on Springsteen, Ruffalo, Colbert and Stewart....
but Alton Brown over Tyler Florence, Anthony Bourdain or even Jamie Oliver?? Come on?
I don’t even agree he understands food. I’ve tried a few of his recipes and let’s just say.... they’re better on tv. Being good at what you do is part of being sexy, too. And this is a man who actually said on camera, “a homemade cake will never be as good as one from a mix”
But may I add the following to your list:
Neil Finn: After for more than 25 years, he still does it for me. He’s still hot even though he’s inching toward the big 5-0. He still sings like an angel. But more importantly, how can you not love a man who wrote “Your skin is like water on a burning beach, and it brings me relief”.
Ewan McGregor: Intelligent, handsome without being pretty, a devoted family man, well-hung (check out The Pillow Book!), masculine enough to circle the globe on a motorcycle, and a respected actor. Ewan is everything Jude Law and his handlers, publicists, and managers wish Jude could be.
James Spader: Like Rickman, there’s just something about a smart, charming man with a bit of kink and an element of danger to him.
Kelly Jones (of Stereophonics): That voice, those songs, those eyes, those eyelashes ... did I mention those eyelashes?. If I were a bit younger, I’d save up all my allowance, catch the first flight to Cardiff, and track him down.
Vincent D’Onofrio: One of the finest actors, he's currently working as Bobby Goran, the idiot savant of human behavior on Law and Order CI. He truly is the thinking woman’s sex symbol. When he cocks his head to the side, and rattles the perp, I'm done!