Letters to the Editor
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Awesome but...
where is Adrien Brody?
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Dear Salon Staff,
What sets one's heart aflame, sets one's heart aflame (pretty subjective I guess)...and I like your list...and the reasons--find many of these men attractive,too--but I'm not sure that in some obvious ways, your list is not as "vanilla" as the list you critique. Though I applaud the lack of pretty-boy actors in this list, I hope the second annual award will push the boundaries of "who's attractive" a bit further.
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Calling Girl6 - Please Read This
To all the women who posted on this piece, I have to tell you that I read every letter and enjoyed them all very much. Some of them I can't get out of my head and I found myself repeating them over lunch to friends.
Especially Girl6 who wrote about Leonard Nimoy: I have no idea what your background is, whether you're a professional writer or not, but your post made a huge impression on me. Please consider writing a longer piece on this and fleshing it out a bit more. It was wonderful and I want to know more.
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Jealousy
Sounds familiar. My boyfriend likes the show, but he's getting fed up with my fangirl shit.
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This has certainly struck a communal nerve!
Yesterday at 7:30am when I read this article for the first time there were something like 43 letters. It's a day and half later and it's just shy of 300 letters. I'm fighting a nasty cold and this has been a perfect distraction. And let me add.... Peter Gabriel.
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How about . . .
Anderson Cooper, Tucker Carlson, Brian Williams, Dan Abrams?
I think I just outed my news anchor fancy. It's just something about that desk, tightly knotted tie (or bow tie), and reporterly gravitas that is boils my Ovaltine.
Oh and Hugh Laurie, especially when he's scowling, brooding Dr. House.
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*just boils my Ovaltine. See, I can't even get good sentences out when I think about them.
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loved it!
what fun! just putting in my vote for the sizzling hot Keith Olbermann!!
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Oh, _yeah_...
1) Here's another vote for Simon Baker. He was just terrific on TV's THE GUARDIAN a couple seasons back--messed-up rich boy who was fundamentally decent but couldn't handle his personal demons. And he's the only reason to suffer through THE AFFAIR OF THE NECKLACE--one delicious pre-French Revolution rogue.
2) Nathaniel Parker (THE INSPECTOR LYNLEY MYSTERIES) ain't no slouch either. If you can bring yourself to watch THE HAUNTED MANSION, he gives up the kind of lovelorn-gent performance you usually see in Jane Austin movies. *slurp*
3) Glad to see I wasn't the only one who thought Philip Seymour Hoffman was hot in MI: III. Or, maybe I was...:)
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The sexiest man living.
Sam Waterston without a doubt floats my boat. His craggy face, slightly lop-sided smile, and when he raises those eye-brows ... my toes tingle. But for another Brit (i'm a brit).A man you may not be too familiar with, the television interviewer Michael Parkinson, affectionately known as Parky.
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Too many white guys
For the polychromatic version of the list, I nominate Dennis Haysbert--my fave president--Colin Powell, and how could you leave off Will Smith!!?
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Did anyone actually read the People issue?
I actually read People in my bathtub on Friday night. I hate the "sexiest" and "most beautiful" issues that seem to come out every six weeks. But I suffer through and suffered through Salon's list hoping for something at least amusing. What I found were at least three of the same men from the people list- Bruce, NPH, Colbert. Colbert even wrote his own article about why he was the sexiest man in glasses. If you are going to offer the alternative to the pretty-boy list, don't pick the same boys. And at least the People list showed more diversity not just in skin color but looks - I have never seen such a group boring b-grade frat boys in my life! Maybe my taste runs too close to Henry Rollins and Rob Zombie to get get this list.
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The Diversity Issue Again...
Something just struck me. Does this list actually point out the sad fact that progressive Salon chooses only white female writers? Not saying that a black or Asian or Indian woman might not find some of these choices deluxe, but we tend to like what we know and what is familiar....
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more kinds of diversity, as well
How about some men who are actually doing great things in today's world? Salon might have included some humanitarians, activists, ecologists, marine biologists, artists, inventors, innovators, writers...... And definitely some international folks. (My Jewish great-grandmother would've been thrilled about those Doctors without Frontiers.) This way a playful exercise might actually become a way of learning about something new.
Face it: this list is way too close to the list you're trying to best.
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someone upthread mentioned Dmitri Hvorotovsky
I heard him perform in San Francisco about 10 years ago, and everything about the man is riveting. A great singer, and gorgeous.
And a great actor, too! I'll never forget him singing the part of Figaro. He may have been standing in a symphony hall in a dinner jacket, but he turned himself into a jive-talking streetcorner smart-ass, everything that Figaro ought to be. A stunning talent, a striking physical presence, but it was his sense of fun that won my heart.
I seem to remember his hair was blond then, but I see that it's turned snow white. And I thought he couldn't get any better.
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and, in a totally different vein
Am I the only one smitten with Shihab Rattansi from CNN International? I just love to watch his eyebrows.
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Sexiest Men--Salon staff the men who reviewed?
So all of the sexiest men reviews are from named women or from "Salon staff". So is Salon staff a euphemism for the men who wrote the reviews?
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Two More Cents Among Many Cents
Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart--absolutely yummy. And I've had a thing for Alton Brown since "Good Eats" first aired (admittedly, I am married to a great cook myself, so some bias there).
There must be a place somewhere on that list for Keith Olbermann--the man can wear pinstripes like no one I've ever seen. Oh, and a general entry for any man who races motorcycles for a living: http://www.automotophoto.com/
Ah, a girl's never too old for a crush. ;-)
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The sexiest man in the world is a woman!
.....K.D. Lang is a LoveStud...when she sings she pumps out an orgasm that
rolls over you like a tsunami. Hell,....I'm a gay dude and I'd do her!