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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I chose to read the article because I wanted, not to read your contributors rattle off names I expected, but to see whether I agreed with any selections. I suspect many readers did the same. And I wanted to see whether any names I guessed would be included were, in fact, selected.
Peter Sarsgaard was a very nice surprise. Alec Baldwin - definitively sexy, but, ho-hum: you've told us this over and over. But suicide as sexiness? A woman as sexiest man? Who are half these guys? Introduce me to them for their talents and substance when you can dedicate space to them... not by telling me you're hot for them.
Shameless self-indulgence. Name-droppers. This article reminds me of the high-school students who raved about "unknown" or underground bands, but once those bands gained popularity, the students cried "sell-out!"
The "us" in "...who really drive us mad" is narrowly limited to the contributors to the article, and not to the Salon community as a whole. Once a premium member, I cancelled last year when content bored me and didn't teach me anything more. Still cancelled.
IMRAN KHAN!! YESSSSSSSS!! I had a big thing for him in the 80s, when he was still playing cricket. He's certainly done us all proud since. Excellent addition!!
And how could I have left Stephen Colbert off my list?! Perhaps because I don't see him as a man, but as a living GOD? In any event, I have just broken my own wrist as a punishment.
Sorry, but my reactions to your picks ranged from "who?" to "meh" to "what on earth were they thinking?" I guess it's too late for a do-over this year, so here are some suggestions for next year:
1. Ben Browder. Yeah, I know Farscape got canceled four years ago, but I've just been catching up on DVD, and OMG the man is hot. Anthony Simcoe's not bad either, with or without the D'Argo make-up.
2. John Barrowman. Maybe he's a little too pretty, but I don't care. Extra points for playing an immortal omnisexual on "Dr. Who" and "Torchwood" and for being out in real life. Check out the video of him singing "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" on "Strictly Come Dancing" -- I defy you not to fall for him.
3. The entire male cast of "Mythbusters." Jamie, Adam, Tory, and Grant are four great-looking geeks who can build anything, make physics sound fun, blow things up or burn them down on a regular basis, and occasionally walk up tall buildings in magnetic boots. A geek girl like me couldn't imagine anything much hotter. Also, narrator Rob Lee--what a voice! And when you do "sexiest women alive," please remember Mythbusters Kari, Scottie, and Christine.
Don't forget Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart!
Can we get a little love for Seth Rogen? Just a little?
Women Who Think?
Sexiest Man Alive?
Broadsheet (aka, bra-sheet)
Where's the exclusive stuff for men? (I'm gay, so check the attitude before you reply.)
Are you SURE you're straight?
I hear you, though. I hear you. (rrrRRRRRrrrrr!)
Tony Leung is not only a great actor but when he was younger he was a PRETTY BOY. The first film I saw him in was "The Lover" directed by Anaund set in Indo-China in the 1920's It was an English language film about a Chinese businessman falling in love with a very young french schoolgirl. I've never forgotten the film or him. It was based on a semi autographical story by Marguirte Duras. I'm so glad you included him in your list.
I like him too; however, there's nothing wrong with machismo. Machismo is just another word for manliness, and there's smart manliness and dumb manliness. We desperately need more smart manliness in this world.
All together now....
Judd Apatow DID NOT CREATE "Freaks and Geeks." Yes, he is a very funny and prolific writer/director/producer. Yes, he was instrumental in getting that show on the air. Yes, he was a writer and exec. producer.
But the show was created by Paul Feid, who almost never, ever gets the credit he deserves as the show's sole creator.
In at least every other piece on the internet ever written about Apatow, he is incorrectly cited as F&G's creator.
Can we get a fact-checker, please?
^Jesus. Look at me, lambasting someone for getting their facts wrong and, like an idiot, I go ahead and misspell Paul FEIG's name. Feig, folks. Sorry...carry on.
Stephen Colbert Warrior Poet.
Rufus Wainwright is a major dreamboat for men and women alike. Sure, he's not everyone's cup of tea...just persons' with good taste. Do a web search the performance of "San Francisco" at his recent Hollywood Bowl concert, or listen to "Peach Trees" from Want Two, to see what I'm talkin' about. Also, he is a gay man who posed in long undies for the video for "Rules and Regulations." That kind of confidence? way, way sexy.
I'm a lady, and I went to the aforementioned Hollywood Bowl concert - the Bowl was packed, but at intermission, there was NO LINE for the ladies' room. There were even empty stalls! I overheard one man on the way back to my seat say "the clubs in West Hollywood are empty tonight." And that's the power of teh sexy, ladies and germs.
As for this year's list: not bad, not bad. I'm not so into the posed sensitivity of Anderson Cooper and Ira Glass, though. I fell outta love with pretentious egotism after I finished grad school.
How could you have forgot about Bruce Springsteen! Sexy, lefty, ballsy, what's not to love?
How did I miss that perfect review of Pride and Prejudice? Come to think of it, did Judy Dench play the night scene with a flashlight under her chin?
yes on Tony Leung!! he is so hot! yum.
i really don't think Owen Wilson is at all sexy. have never ever seen it. (also, to the person who added Ben Affleck...have never ever seen that either.)
serious omissions-
* Gael Garcia Bernal (but maybe you picked him last year?)
* Dominic West (the Wire)
* Idris Elba (the Wire...did you pick him last year or something? he is seriously the sexiest man living...how could you not pick him???)
* Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Six Feet Under)
not as grave but still omissions nonetheless-
- Chow Yun Fat
- Kyle Chandler (Friday Night Lights)
and if you're going into the land of music-
- Jeff Tweedy (Wilco)
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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