Letters to the Editor
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Not That I need to Add to this BUT what the heck...
Starting in South Korea, Lee Byung-Hun, starred in A BITTERSWEET LIFE,
now lets go further south to Japan and take a look at Ken Watanabe, who out classed
and out acted the better half of TomKat in Last Samurai and then he made
Memoirs of a Geisha a tad bit more bearable. Now further south to India
where Bollywood is home to three great looking dudes: ShahRukh Khan, John
Abraham who was recently seen in the Deepa Mehta film Water and finally
Arjun Rampal. I shall end this trivial posting with a personal homegrown
favorite: Dennis Hasbert, former President Palmer on "24" and currently
the CBS show "The Unit"....dark, deep and handsome...and can sell car insurance
to a non-driving public transit slag such as myself.
Best choice on your list...Alan Rickman. Thank You and Good Night.
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We 20th Century Heterosexual Males Admire:
Steve McQueen and James Garner. And Clint Eastwood.
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From the world of opera....
Samuel Ramey (I'll take a Date with the Devil anytime!), Bryn Terfel, Ildebrando D'Arcangelo....amazing talents with charisma and chemistry that reach the second balcony!
I'm glad someone added Colin Powell(gravitas, intelligence and looks) and Will Smith (charming, funny and cute)....great choices!
Also, I second the addition of Ed Harris (Appollo 13), Tommy Lee Jones (Men in Black), Colin Firth (duh!).
I am also a member of the Colbert I-thought-it-was-just-me club (I knew he was in People because he showed the issue the other night on the Report) and Alan Rickman has been one of my favorites for years (when Col.Brandon carries Marianne back to the house after she collapses with grief in the rain....and that voice, loaded with smoldering passion....sigh).
Bill Clinton:the heck with Monica and the two-term limit, I want him back in the White House!
OK, this one is really out there, but.....Jackie Chan? He is such an appealing bundle of energy and charm! Am I the only one who finds him hot?
How about Bill Nighy, who describes himeself as 'the thinking woman's crumpet'?
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Can't believe...
...that I had to read almost all the way through these letters to see someone finally mention delectable funny hot Dave Grohl! And the same letter mentioned Dermot Mulroney--aw hell yes! I think Dermot looks a lot like another of my fantasy boys (who was also unbelievably overlooked here)--Joe Perry from Aerosmith, who's made me quiver ever since I was a teenager 30 years ago! At nearly 60 he's still hotter than most guys half his age, and has a brain and soul in there as well.
I also can't believe Salon did that huge Bollywood write-up a couple years ago (might have even been the same writer(s)), yet this list didn't include Rahul Khanna or Amir Khan! Lagaan is nearly four hours long, girls...
And ever since they killed off Noah on All My Children, I have pined for the stunner that is Keith Hamilton Cobb. Whom I was lucky enough to meet very briefly once, and it still held up. (Even 'though he's on the other team...)
P.S. My husband says if/when you do the list for women, he votes for Mercedes Ruehl. (I don't get it, but, whatever...)
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Come on
This reinforces my occasional impression of this website as a bit fey, pompous, and self-congratulatory. I would hope to see a list ranking (read: objectifying?) hot yet intelligent women in the near future, or this opinion will certainly not be changed anytime in the near future.
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Give us a break, Carlos
It's all for fun.
Women find brains and souls really hot. There is a wide range of embodiments of that mind/soul thing.
And there's a mixture in this thread of "thoughtful" choices and "fuck it, the guy's just hot" choices.
No one's falling over themselves to pat their own backs here. We're fully aware we're objectifying guys, simply because even if we "love" their minds and works and souls, we don't know them and can only idolize them based on their persona or image. And therefore they are only an "object" to us and not a "person".
We've never seen any of them in saggy boxers scratching themselves and farting in front of an open refrigerator. We've never had a fight with them, or sat there as they unconsciously ogled another woman, or cringed at the sound their teeth make on their fork. We've never listened to them snore and thought just an eensy bit about smothering them with a pillow.
They are, by definition, not "real" to us - and therefore we objectify them, we identify somehow with who we imagine they are.
Lust after brains, lust after butts, it's all objectification, delusion over an "image", until we actually meet the guy.
Lighten up - as I said, it's all for fun, an alternative to the lightweight People Mag (I call it Fecal Mag) list, they elevated the discourse a little.
The subsequent comments sometimes sunk back down to us regular women lusting after pecs and scruffy chins - so what?
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Not convinced
I don't think the article is all that offensive or objectifying, but just because this article is more insightfully quirky and cleverly written than a Maxim article doesn't change the fact that there is a gigantic double standard when it comes to what men and women lust after in public. Can I lust after insecure nineteen year olds with small waists and fake breasts? Sure. Can I get together with other men on a message board for self-styled sophisticates and not feel just a tad of cognitive dissonance, not to mention outright HYPOCRISY, for combing through women's rumps, busts, and legs, ranking them like livestock? No. I DO engage in those activities but I have never insisted that my gender is the only one that can do those things without being considered a sexist.
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ok alton brown but...
Where is Dennis Haysbert. I wouyld love to spend time in his "good hands." That voice, that creamy chocolate perfection, tall, broad shoulders, eyes like Richard Gere, and did I mention the VOICE!
cja
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So the sexiest men living either live in US or in Europe. You a**hole need a kick in you b***. Just wait for another 20 years.
So the sexiest men living either live in US or in Europe. You a**hole need a kick in you b***. Just wait for another 20 years