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1. AshleyWilliams. I actually like the show "How I Met Your Mother" and was heartbroken and even misted up a little when her character left the show. She is the rare celebrity crush that makes me feel tingly in the same way that an actual real life crush would when she came in the room. That's weird, but there it is.
2. Jewel Staite. But who doesn't love Jewel Staite?
3. Anna Paquin. Yay X3!
4. Reiko Aylesworth. Curse you, 24!
5. Sarah Chalke. Admittedly, this is more a crush on her character than on the actress herself. (Okay, that's probably true for all of them.) I heart Eliot.
6. Kari Byron. I can't believe I forgot about Kari until #6. This list is definitely not in order of crush intensity. Except for Ashley Williams at #1. *swoon*
I know there are more (including man crushes!) but these are off the top of my head.
Well, ok, and celebrity-in-my-world Roxy Epoxy from the world's greatest band. Any woman who wraps herself in electricians tape and sings will win my heart forever.
I'm more likely to have a crush on Emma Thompson Hope Davis or someone like that than anyone "Hollywood." But I did have a huge crush on Buffy the Vampire Slayer when the show first came on.
Aw, crap, fris. I went all stealthy and viewed the source to get the urls to those pics, and they work fine for me, but probably because they're in my cache (or, maybe not - I just plugged the urls into IE and they came up fine). Shit. The google images I found weren't as good. Anyone else having the same problem?
Lili Taylor, Neko Case,... uh, I suppose there are others. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about it, really. Oh, Zoe Deschanel. And Rosario Dawson is attractive.
OH and Jessica Alba has replaced Angelina Jolie as the woman I most want to make out with me. I have a pretty sad lesbian vision...where they would be doing most of the servicing.
I totally remember seeing him (Sam Elliott) on some not very good TV show as a kid. I hadn’t yet given boys much thought but there was something about him that made me tingle.
I don't dig on celebrities. If they're in movies I like, I might. Those two are my favorites because of how they play who they play in the movies I love them in.
When I look at celebrities today, I wonder if standards of beauty haven't passed me by. There's this weird mixture of puffy and hard, and all these Hollywood types seem profoundly dissatisfied with who they are, always looking for a change. It's a disease.
If celebrity models count, though, and they don't have to be all that celebrated, I would kiss the ground on which Oluchi Onweagba walks, she's so pretty.
I haven't updated in a long time, but: Ladies
*Natalie Portman in Garden State
*Angelina Jolie, but she scares me. I really think she's hot, physically.
*Elle MacPherson (still)
*Scarlett Johansson (since Ghost World)
*Mary-Louise Parker (I totally agree with cmonkey)
*Almost forgot...mrs. peel era Diana Rigg
ManCrushes, in that I wouldn't mind looking like these fuckers, or hell, even being as cool as them in some cases:
*John Cusack
*Christian Bale (esp. in American Psycho)
*Mike9322, er I mean Matthew McConaughey
*Vince Vaughan, back in his Swingers days.
oh, and bmarkey? I am seeing Neko in less than 2 weeks! Whoo!
Naveen Andrews
Liev Schreiber
John Cusack
Viggo Mortensen
Colin Firth
George Clooney
Sam Elliot
Vince Vaughn
Kevin Spacey
Jon Stewart
Clive Owen
Oded Fehr
Sean Bean
Angelina Jolie (back in her heavier days)
Queen Latifah
Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck, my normal "type" for girl-crushes)
Jewel Staite
Mary Lynn Rajskub (Chloe from 24)
some kind of talent beyond looking good, and a sense of quirkiness and uniqueness EXACTLY!
Katee Sackhoff (Starbuck, my normal "type" for girl-crushes)
That's sort of what I figured out with my 'man-crushes.' What do Corbett and Springsteen have in common? They both look and act sort of street and roughneck, but not in a menacing or scary way. Maybe I'm looking for a badass with a heart of gold.
What my woman-crushes reveal is that I like big boobs and big booties.
Nicolas Cage, always and forever.
James McMurtry
Naveen Andrews
Johnny Depp
Neil Gaiman Spike (okay, okay, I know)
Robert Redford & Sean Connery & Mick Jagger & Harrison Ford, even if they have gone & gotten all old on me.
Zonker from Doonesbury
Humphrey Bogart
and this guy in an 1820s self portrait at the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore who is incredibly gorgeous and I used to stare at for hours on end.
Ladies:
-Kari Byron (She also went to my uni! And even though I haven't numbered these lists she is totally number one to me)
-Keira Knightley
-Angelina Jolie (earlier in her career, she looks kinda scary now)
-The entire female cast of Firefly
-Milla Jovovich
-Mia and Liv Tyler
some kind of talent beyond looking good, and a sense of quirkiness and uniqueness EXACTLY!
Yeah, that pretty much nails it. I also agree with Jonmc's "tough guy with a heart of gold" thingy. I'd also add a third catagory: the "charming rogues" so to speak. Basicaly the guys who drink and swear, make you laugh and then make you feel all weak in the knees when you least expect it.
fenriq, you rock. For real. This is a very fun thread. My post, with links fixed:
1. AshleyWilliams. I actually like the show "How I Met Your Mother" and was heartbroken and even misted up a little when her character left the show. She is the rare celebrity crush that makes me feel tingly in the same way that an actual real life crush would when she came in the room. That's weird, but there it is.
2. Jewel Staite. But who doesn't love Jewel Staite?
3. Anna Paquin. Yay X3!
4. Reiko Aylesworth. Curse you, 24!
5. Sarah Chalke. Admittedly, this is more a crush on her character than on the actress herself. (Okay, that's probably true for all of them.) I heart Eliot.
6. Kari Byron. I can't believe I forgot about Kari until #6. This list is definitely not in order of crush intensity. Except for Ashley Williams at #1. *swoon*
I know there are more (including man crushes!) but these are off the top of my head.
Eek, forgot about Nathan Fillon, Alan Tudyk, Adam Baldwin and Sean Maher for male hotties. And how sad is it that I know their RL names without having to look them up?
And let's not forget about Gina Torres, Jewel Straithe and Morena Baccarin? These women are awesome, too, but I'm afraid I don't know the spellings of their names that well.
Veronica Mars.
Billie Piper (former Brit pop-tart who plays Dr. Who's companion in the 2005 series).
Callie, Sharon Valerii and Starbuck from Battlestar Galactica.
Kate, Sun and of course Claire from Lost.
Scarlett Johanssen. Go-era Katie Holmes (before she became the Swollen Bride of Xenu)
Jessica Alba.
Sean Bean is better known for his role as Boromir in the Lord of the Rings films. Prior to that his most recognizable role to US audiences was probably was that of Bond baddy (and ex-00 agent) Alec Trevelyan in Golden Eye. He's actually been in lots of big budget movies these past ten years. Mostly playing villainous types. (and he does it oh-so well ;D)
Sabrina Ferilli: Roman. Actress. Daughter of a Communist Party official. Big cheekbones. Big crooked teeth. Drop dead sexy. Looks OK without too many clothes on. And she doesn't like liver. A Roman goddess who doesn't like liver is like a Lamborghini that gets good gas mileage.
richat, I seethe with jealousy. Neko hates Seattle, so the only time she ever plays here is with the New Pornographers. Oh, she'll play the Sasquatch Festival, all the way out at the (fucking) Gorge, and she'll say that that counts as playing here. Why hast thou forsaken us, Neko? Why?
scody - what's up with Paul's hair these days? Has he gone emo?
Heh! I think it's his Small Faces homage. Though the earlocks do indeed verge on a bit much... of his dad rock period, I prefer his mid-late '90s cut, myself. *rolls eyes at self for having a FAVORITE WELLER COIF, for cripe's sake!*
Man crush? Peter O'Toole. Seriously. He's like the only one I've ever had, but I was watching an interview and he suddenly seemed like the most attractive man in the world.
Alyson Hannigan, of course. Actually, more Willow in her geeky days than the actress. Scarlett Johansson. The actress who plays "Cali" on BSG. When Kieslowski's "Blue" came out in 1993, I decided that Juliette Binoche is the most beautiful woman in the world. Anna Paquin. I like cuteness.
I had this dream a few weeks ago of kissing peter o'toole upside down, and then this humongous devil tail started coming out of his leg by the ankle. It was allin this seventies sci fi lounge room and as i made my excuses to escape, jon favreau was pretending to be an orderly up the hall--
it gets weirder from there.
Jeez - is there another industry that inspires such love/hate?
Do the people who ridicule the botoxifcation of entertainment industry workers feel the same contempt for mill workers who loose fingers?
It's weird that actors are put on such pedestals. If some of them start believing their own press releases I can't bring myself to blame them. I'm not sure I wouldn't get a swelled head if people started hanging onto my opinions like they were the word of God.
I don't really get celebrity crushes either; those people don't seem real to me, and I tend to get crushes on real people whom I actually know. And Metachatters, of course, but you know, you're more real than celebrities in that I can talk to you.
But there are two exceptions. I adore Humphrey Bogart. I'm so sorry that that crush has no future. He's enthralling.
The second is at least alive: Tim Robbins. I would scramble over that scrawny Susan Sarandon's liberal do-gooder stick-insect body so fast for him, I'd be a blur. Looove TR.
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