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Sexiest Man Living 2007 Because there's more to life than pretty boys ... Salon picks the 26 men who really drive us mad.
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  • Narrow minds

    Do you guys even realise there is a world outside the USA?

    It is full of men whom I have actually heard of.

    If your heading had said "the sexiest men known to Americans" I would have been more impressed.

    Jude

  • Kari from Mythbusters. mmmmmm

    Alec Baldwin is a dillweed and Sean Penn is a pinhead. Drop both bozos and put in Dog the Bounty Hunter and Ann Coulter.

    And when you do a sexiest women article, make sure Kari from Mythbusters is NUMBER ONE WITH A STAR. She is so damn hot.

  • Hmmm

    I must have most amazingly sexy boyfriend because not one guy on that list does a thing for me...

  • More Sexy Men Living (2007)

    Thanks for Leslie Cheung, he's made Hong Kong and Chinese film watching all the more worth while for YEARS! I also must agree about Matt Damon, he's been the sneak up on you sexy one for most of his career.

    I also agree that Keith Olberman was unfairly excluded - he is so HOT !! When he ends his broadcasts with "Be there, Aloha" - I get weak in the knees. Please remember him for next year!

    Also, I kinda dig Ben Foster - he played the crazy sidekick to Russell Crowe in 3:10 to Yuma, and the really crazy prison inmate on My Name is Earl (to name a couple of appearances).

    And please, I know, but... but let's talk about The Rock. Dwayne Johnson was the only reason I ever watched pro wrestling. Holy Blue Hell, he's smokin'!

  • I Nominate Millhouse

    Owen Wilson, Jon Hamm/Don Draper, brooding Dylan...Fine then, make me confront my sick fascination with the attractively haunted. I still miss Fox Mulder. Just last night I was watching Crowe in L.A. Confidential and sighing lustily.

    The Simpson's hit this phenomenon square on the bowed-with-sorrow head on Sunday with 'Little Orphan Millie.' Millhouse thinks his parents are dead and suddenly becomes the hot brooding loner.

    Summed up in Nelson Muntz's great line, "He's troubled! But I can save him!"

  • Ira Glass? A ladie's man??

    I thought he was gay!

    Love his show, though.

  • There are two Tony Leungs

    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.

    I hate to break it to you, but that is a different Tony Leung. There are two of them. The Tony Leung in "The Lover" is known as Tony Leung Kai-Fa (Big Tony).

    The Tony Leung in this article is Tony Leung Chiu-Wai (Short Tony). This Tony is the action film star.

  • Tim Gunn

    I love the broader definition of sexy you apply to the men of the world......

    For sincerity, artistry, compassion, the ability to make anyone he comes across feel gorgeous and downright beautiful, I say Tim Gunn's got it. He's handsome, erudite, and expresses pride in true creativity. That's sexy

  • Sexiest Man You Forgot

    You forgot Vincent D'Onofrio. Sexiest weird guy alive.

  • No love for The Modfather?

    One of the greatest British songwriters of his generation? One of the smartest dressers on the planet? The drop-dead sexiest man I've ever laid eyes on? Check, check, and check. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you: Paul Weller.

  • Jon, Dan, Jonny, Josh

    Jon Stewart - Hands down the number one hottest man.

    Dan Futterman - So handsome it hurts.

    Jonny McGovern - The gay pimp! Woot! What a hottie.

    Josh Groban - What a voice; will make you swoon.

    Barack Obama - One word. Barack.

    What's up with all the haters who take themselves way too seriously and bash Salon because it happens to run an article without a byline of global warming or dead Iraqis? Jee-zuz. Lighten up.

  • Smart-Guy Lover

    Can't possibly disagree about Draper/Hamm.

    Beyond that, the inevitable let's-not-forgets. A half-dozen leap to mind, but at the top: Stephen Colbert. OK, so the persona is anti-sexy, but we all know it's his genius and guts that provide the electrical charge. Plus, the photo of the real, out-of-character SC in a recent NYT Magazine profile: that face, the tousled hair, the brilliance in those eyes? 10-pack not required.

  • Re: How about Sexiest men in America

    I don't know what "Anamika" is going on about, claiming that this should be labeled as an "American" list. From what I've quickly discerned, a number of the guys mentioned hail from Britain, France, Canada, China, Mexico, Domincan Republic, New Zealand, and Spain. Are we looking at the same list?

  • Roger Federer?

    As someone already mentioned, this is clearly an American list - otherwise how could you omit Roger Federer? On court and off he is the sexiest athlete practising his craft in the world today!

  • No Sexiest Woman living 2007?

    Get on it.

  • Omar Vizquel?

    I know Salon is based in the Bay Area, and Omar Vizquel is a damn good baseball player. But representing the sports world with Vizquel is criminal, considering the hotness that abounds there. In no particular order, here's just one guy from each of the major sports:

    Alex Smith (49ers)

    Gilbert Arenas (Washington Wizards)

    Grady Sizemore (Cleveland Indians)

    Mike Modano (Dallas Stars)

    and of course, David Beckham

    also, I agree with everyone who said leaving Clive Owen off the list is a crime.

  • Sexiest Men Hogwash

    This gives new meaning to vanity press. Reverse sexism. Why not just turn this into a CFNM site? Actually, you'd advertise better. Sex in the City was always too prudish, and so is the Paglia-do-me-sexist-feminist: just another mercenary, cruising for the lonely idiot male ( convicted ) to tick;e the soles of her feet ( metaphorically ) as she gazes longingly upon the useless parasitical male stripper of her desire. Keep up the good work.

  • Matt Damon's Coup

    Matt Damon manages a double-sexy list coup, and he still gets saddled with perhaps appealing to men more than women? I respectfully disagree - this girl has thought he's the hottest of the Hollywood bunch since his early days, for brains and good looks. The rest of the world just needed to catch up...

  • Andy Samberg

    Those lips!

    That hair!

    That d**k in a box!

    How can we forget cupcake lovin' Andy?

  • ERIC RIPERT.

    That is all.

  • Is there a world beyond America and Europe?

    You wouldn't think so, judging by this list. Or does the inclusion of Tony Leung take care of those "others"? People in Japan, China, India, the Middle East, Africa and Russia would probably include a few Europeans and Americans on their lists of Sexiest/Smartest/Silliest Whatever. How sadly provincial that you lot can't manage to reciprocate.

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