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25 May 2009
Name your celebrity crush. Now, and/or when you were 14.
When I was a teenager, I was in love with Tom Cruise. Thank goodness my fantasies about marrying him didn't come true, since he turned into a total weirdo.
I can't think of anyone I have a crush on now (even though I think plenty of celebrities are very yummy), and that makes me feel old and sad...
Oh my god. Whatever kind of foundation garment did they make poor Lynda Carter wear? I hadn't seen her in ages and didn't remember such a distorted figure on her.
14: Erin Gray.
Bonus secondary obsession: obscure Bond girl Béatrice Libert (not, apparently, the Belgian poet).
Today: Well, I'm too old for Keira Knightley, but Kate Winslet will do. Emma Thompson, Laura Linney, Jodie Foster, and Holly Hunter are pretty well up there too. Oh, I suppose I am quite admiring of Linda Hamilton and Katee Sackhoff. At least they're not all genre.
(It was the 70s. Silly headbands were not a dealbreaker back then.)
And my parents thought I was into tennis. Heh! Not really.
As for today- like Ardiril said, celebrity itself kinda grosses me out, at least the way it's presented. I think I preferred the days when people got famous for a reason.
farthest back: Haley Mills from the Parent Trap movie (7 years old).
a little closer in: at 14, it was all Stevie Nicks, all the time. I used to fantasize she'd be browsing in the Metaphysics section of our local indie bookstore and I'd make her smile or something.
Now (any given day this rotates): Stockard Channing, Donna Brazille, Amy Poehler, Lily Tomlin, Jennifer Aniston, Scarlet Johansen, Alfre Woodard, Queen Latifah, I could go on....
I have no idea what was on my mind when I was 14 (well... hm... yeah I do but I have no idea what people might have been on my mind) and I don't know about 'crush' but certainly interesting: Netta Skog Meiju Enho I don't know what her name is but she looks like fun.
14: Can't remember, because I wasn't that much of a media watcher. I think I ended up crushing on whomever my sister crushed on, but not exactly because I didn't want to copy her.
Now? Wil Wheaton, Jonathan Coulton, Hugh Jackman, John Barrowman, Hugh Laurie. So many crush-worthy men! Women? Hmm... Lucy Lawless. I think that's it for women.
(They're all people I find captiving / magnetic / can't take my eyes off when they're performing. Also Anette - her photos look like someone I would cross the street to avoid but on stage is a different story.)
Then - George Michael
Now - 1980's George Michael
It's funny, because it never occurred to me that he might not be into chicks, but now whenever I see "Wake Me Up Before You GoGo", I realize what a huge fricking flamer the boy was/is. I never saw it, I was so blinded by love.
Then: Johnny Depp
Now: Johnny Depp
(too obvious, I know, but I am satisfied in knowing he will be an age-appropriate crush until we are both old and grey.)
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