Letters to the Editor
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WHAT A WHINEY WHINEY BABY!!!!
I am deeply, penetratingly gratified to see so much evidence that women who read Salon can be as shallow and insipid on the topic of the opposite sex as can too many men. Whether it's orgasmic letter titles ("Yes! God, yes! Yes!" - please) or drooly metaphors, prosaic throat-clearing or virtual bar stool hopping, you ladies have shown yourselves to be every bit as bad as the average hard hat whistler. Congratulations.
spreading your general hate of happiness around again, i see. who fucking cares what you think, buster? i for one am sick of hearing from you, and by the way, QUIT projecting your insecurities and unhappiness on the rest of us. it's not going to stop us appreciating and admiring and lusting after men, famous or not. i think you're just jealous that no one finds you sexy.
now, back to my fantasy of alan rickman and jesse l. martin and me having a...oh, never mind. :)
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sexy mayor
has there been a mention of gavin newsom? somehow, he's grown on all of us, and now he's full-on hot.
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Two Cents
While I greatly appreciate the inclusion of the dynamic Stewart/Colbert duo and the impossibly sexy Alan Rickman, I can't help notice the list is overwhelmingly white. Two big, glaring omissions: Mr. Barack Obama (Senator Dreamy) and Harold Ford, Jr. (would-be Senator Playboy). Shame for depriving me of their faces and miniature, pithy bios!
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If we're talking about full-on, drop dead sexy...
My actual vote (I figured he was too obscure to mention, but having read more letters about fairly unknown guys, I thought, why not?) goes to Spanish singer/songwriter/musician/producer/activist/painter Alejandro Sanz. Without question the sexiest man God ever created, and with a voice that makes you think of... you know (blush). This guy combines looks, talent, brains, social responsibility and maddening sensuality in a way that...
I need to stop. MARYHADALITTLELAMBLITTLELAMBLITTLELAMB... HitlerchildabuseDerekJeterGeorgeBushAnnCoulter...
Whew. That was close.
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But the bread was delicious.
When you start with Stephen Colbert and end with Jon Stewart, why do you fill the middle with baloney? I'll just have the bread, thank you.
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The sexiest man living!
Dear Salon Staff Writers,
Please accept my sarcastic thanks for so bravely countering People Magazine's preposterous celebration of "plain, vanilla men." You all labor under the misapprehension that nominating a slew of bookish, off-beat white men and one James Blake provides the intellectual heterosexual woman/gay man with some sort of heartening alernative to Clooney and his compadres. Though your sexy men are sexy for reasons other than their abs, it's clear to me that you and the writers of People share the same premise: they're not sexy at all, if they're not white.
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One more?
May I suggest Bill Nighy?
It's that look he has, that ridiculous snort of a laugh, that fine lean languidness at 56. He's not pretty, but he is beautiful. Good for the Brits.
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Where are the people of color?
Fun article. But where are the Latino men? The Asian men? The Black men (besides the well-chosen James Blake)? Are we not sexy?
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Yes!
As a heterosexual male myself, I often find myself butting up against the unrealistic expectations many women have of men, just as the reverse is true of women and men's expectations of them.
It is refreshingg to see a piece like this that goes beyond Clooney and Damon (no matter how cool they are) and looks at what's really there: why would you love this person? Not just why would you want to fuck them, but why would you LOVE them?
These are all wonderfully painted portraits of men as men: human, faulty, beautiful, talented, funny, a little dangerous, thrilling - all, oddly enough, the things that men REALLY want in women.
Kudos to Salon for yet another piece of dead-on writing.
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Coincidentally . . .
"Lou" mentioned Neil Gaiman - I stumbled onto "Stardust" just last Wednesday and by the second chapter I think I'm in love with the author!
Yeah, the writing. So then I look at his photo. And long hair? And an accent, you say? Hmm, I have some googling to do . . .
Well, there's no shortage of hot/sexy/compelling/to-drool-for men out there.
I can hardly disagree with anyone's choices (except there are many who I don't recognize).
Let me please add:
Gary Lightbody (Snow Patrol)
The lovely Sam Elliot (mmmmm, he's what's for dinner)
Simon Baker
Edward Norton
Djimon Hounsou
Cat Stevens/Yusef Islam
Andy Garcia
Jimmy Smits
John Cusack
Dermott Mulroney
Richard Gere
Tim Robbins
I would also be glad to make out with
Colin Firth
Liam Neeson
Cillian Murphy
Hugh Laurie (twice)
Craig Ferguson (however many times he's willing)
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more nominees
Tony Leung
Edward Said
Michael K. Williams (Omar on The Wire)
Viggo Mortensen
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Okay, he's not hot persay..
But I've got a secret soft spot for Ricky Gervais. Oh and Adrian Brody is a sloe eyed god,and so is Adrian Pasdar. And Robert Downey Junior is such a bad boy but his beautiful dark eyes are so soft and lovely...Daniel Craig as 007, Enrico Colantoni (yes, I've got a crush on Veronica's Dad!).
I agree with almost every selection on the Salon List, as well as the inspired choices in these letters. Benicio is stunning, Chjwetel Ejiofor is lucious. Must..stop...now.
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okay, so I can't spell
The little voice in the back of my head where I keep repressed memories of school is telling me that I should have written per se. But you get my drift.
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Naveen Andrews
Especially when he's rocking a beard.
First noticed him as Kit in "The English Patient" -- the only part of that movie I remember -- and then reached manly manliness perfection as Sayeed in "Lost".
Absolute manly masculine sexily hot perfection.
YumyumYUM. Why those women on that island are wasting time on Jack and Sawyer is beyond me. It's a knockdown dragout between him and Daniel Dae Kim (I'd pay money to see the look on my own face when the first showed him shirtless. Oh GOD!)
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As long as you're talking Brits (and others)
I find it hard to believe that there are so many Brits (I've always loved Snape but always thought he was more slimy than sexy), so many votes for Colin Firth, and not a mention of the newest Darcy, Matthew Macfadyn. ("You have bewitched me body and soul...") If his Darcy didn't do it for you, check him out his Tom Quinn in MI-5 (Spooks in Britain).
I second the vote for Michael Chabon; even if he weren't gorgeous (thanks for the link to the photo whoever sent it!), anyone who could write The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay could fill up my evening any time.
Guess I'm gonna rerun some Harry Potters before I go to bed, see what I've been missing.