Letters to the Editor

Letters posted here are associated with the following article:
Sexiest Man Living 2007 Because there's more to life than pretty boys ... Salon picks the 26 men who really drive us mad.
The letters thread is now closed.
  • Mythbusters crew

    All of them would be way hotter if that show's narrator died in the first 20 seconds of a show. I'm so tired of that ingratiating self-congratulatory voiceover that I can't watch the show for any reason.

    "This may prove difficult, but you know that Adam and Jamie are just the right couple of guys for the job. They don't poop, you know. They emit genius from their backsides onto easy-access DVDs for third world children. And things they touch count as blessed by vatican law. Once Adam and Jamie taught my cat to read. More after the commercial."

  • Obviously in error

    Obviously it is in error, as I am not on the list :-)

  • I'm here, I'm queer and Rufus Wainwright's looks and singing do nothing for me.

    Somebody needed to say it. I'm just not into adult men who still look like somebody you never noticed in junior high study hall until you saw somebody else beating them up. And of my friends who went to his Hollywood Bowl concert (you couldn't have paid me to go), half said they were disappointed that he was unable to actually sing the songs (with Wainwright even acknowleding onstage his own inablity to hit the notes or sing in key) and the other half said that he was brilliant because his not being able to sing the songs was the whole point. Huh?

    And not wanting to miss a chance to turn anything political, how disappointing that you have what I believe to be the only queer male writer of this piece qualify his attraction to Will Arnett by saying that he's usually not attracted to men who are tall, have natural hairlines, deep voices and behave in a masculine manner. In other words, he's a queer man who's not attracted to men who look and act like men. I'm really not sure what the point of his being queer is, then, but there's always Rufus Wainwright for him, I guess.

    On the other hand, kudos for the choice of John Amaechi. At the risk of name-dropping, I've had the pleasure of hanging with him and that, ladies and gentleman, is the real deal. His sheer size and handsomeness combined with his intellect would take your breath away except for his being so extraordinarily personable and charming, you feel like you're in the presence of an old friend. Albeit a mind-bogglingly hot old friend.

  • YUM! ! !

    I'll take Mr. Hamm any day of the week . . .nicely done.

  • For the Alan Rickman Fans Out There

    For those of you who adore Alan Rickman -- as I do -- and those who have not yet discovered his charms, I dare you to watch this video and not become one of the believers... ;-)

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7A_bJFZNXE

  • Fuck

    Fuck. My boyfriend actually hid the AARP brochure when it showed up on my 50th birthday. But you guys have no mercy. I've never even seen pictures before of half the guys on your list. And why did no one include your own Cary Tennis? Or Vincent D'Onofrio's Bobby Goren? Sexy is a guy who can listen!

  • Puhleeze

    Which man do I Most want to fuck me?

    Ryan Reynolds!

    If it's good enough for Alanis - It's good enough for me!

  • jon hamm

    just checked jon hamm's imdb page b/c i went to high school w/ him though never knew him well. his quote about his girlfriend? NOT SEXY! ugh. i hate guys who refer to their partners as their "lady". and the rest of it is just nonsense.

  • all true, Joan, but...

    how many episodes in advance of the scene in the show did you figure out that peggy was pregnant?

  • From Joan Walsh

    academyscreamer, I think it was probably two episodes earlier. I was certain, though, in the episode when she's crying in Don's office. I just can't remember whether that was one or two episodes before the finale.

  • sexiest man

    Where is Keith Olbermann on your list? He is smart, literate, funny, and willing to say what needs to be said. My heart pounds with feverish (but intellectual) delight every evening when I watch Countdown. I have such a crush on him!

  • no plant?

    good golly, do you just not like robert plant, or what? no stories on mighty rearranger or raising sand . . . the man is still a golden god.

  • Missing from the List

    The omission of Keith Olbermann and Stephen Colbert from your "Sexiest Man Alive" list renders it meaningless.

  • Sexiest Man Alive

    1. GW Bush

    2. Don Rumsfeld

    3. Dick Cheney

    4. Condoleeza Rice.

    That ol' Gang of War Criminals ruling the YOUSA!

    Yum-yum-yummy!

    --- GSC

  • How could you forget...

    Gabriel Byrne! Both men and women like him and he's sexy as hell.

    Oh, and the sad/sexy Owen Wilson fad ended when he started dating Jessica Simpson. No one with a REAL existential crisis would go near that bimbo...

  • James Woods!!!

    The confession scene in "Salvador" alone which (I have read) he ad-libbed -- the man is incredible. Brilliant actor, and just plain brilliant -- hilarious, gutsy, self-confrontational -- his edgy, "kind of an asshole" personality (defying his actual looks, which started out nerdy-spooky-scary and have kept getting BETTER as time has passed), he flatly disregards by also NOT being nice -- he is TOTALLY hot. Too bad about the dyed hair on "Shark" (don't forget your eyebrows!!) but he's an actor, it's makeup -- he's even handsomer with his natural gray-white hair anyway; and even in movies that are kinda lame ("Any Given Sunday") he brings his force to the moment. Beginning with "Onion Field," and don't skip "Salvador" -- plus the hilarious exchange with Clint Eastwood in "True Crime"!! -- playing a sick, racist, killer in "Ghosts of Mississippi" -- be still my heart.

  • No Kevin McKidd?

    My God! What a list! I'm a traditionalist. I go for the good looking guy on the big or small screen. Not the pretty boys. The physical ones, the way they walk down a street, enter a door or look at the woman in their life. Their physical presence. The way they inhabit their clothes and their space. The way they touch the woman they love. Broad shouldered, soft eyes, short haired and clean looking with maybe a small scar between their eyebrows. Nice voice. Like the Scottish actor Kevin McKidd playing the character Dan Vasser on Journeyman.

Most Active Stories

Read More

Letters Help

Daily Delivery

Salon headlines in your mailbox