Anyone Else Still have Harmless Celebrity Crushes

[Liberalynn]

even though your teen years are long since behind you? My latest is Colin O'Donahue from Once Upon a Time's Captain Hook. Okay he's young enough to be my son and married to boot, but since it's just for writing inspiration, fantasy and from way afar, I figure who cares.

[PasadenaTrudy]

1. Oh yeah...

Gotta have something to help get through the day.

[Liberalynn]

2. Exactly!

[Ineeda]

3. Theo James.

Eye candy for this old broad.

[Liberalynn]

4. Very handsome

[trof]

5. Elizabeth Taylor.

Yeah, I'm that old.

[Liberalynn]

6. She was gorgeous!

[RebelOne]

16. I'm even older.

As a young child, I had a crush on Cornel Wilde.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornel_Wilde

[Liberalynn]

46. Very handsome!

[wordpix]

189. Gregory Peck. Now that was a real man...

[hunter]

7. My first celebrity crush, as a third grader, was Nyota Uhura

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhura

I knew she'd understand my obsession with radio electronics and she was gorgeous.

[Liberalynn]

12. A great role model as well

[antiquie]

8. Eric Stoltz

[Liberalynn]

13. His eyes are gorgeous

[antiquie]

15. I loved all his characters,

and know nothing about him personally.

[seveneyes]

9. Way before my time but

Maureen O'Sullivan

[Liberalynn]

14. Thanks for the clip and the pics

[seveneyes]

17. You are very welcome. It's as wonderful a life as one makes it

There has always been more beauty in life than sorrow. Immediate needs not withstanding the torture and pleasures of times gone by.

[applegrove]

10. I'll fall for a guy with a good story line. But he needs to have character. And be a good egg in

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his role. And he can't be twenty years younger than me. I don't fall for someone's celebrity these days either. It has got to be a well developed character in a movie or a tv role. Doesn't happen much.

[Liberalynn]

18. Those are good rules of thumb!

I don't know most of the younger celebrities these days but I happened to see an advertisement for OUAT and Colin was in it and I got intrigued. His character is written differently in this show than the traditional version of Hook. They had him start off as a heroic Naval officer named Killian Jones but then his king lies to Jones's brother about a mission they were on, and the brother dies. Killian is devastated and feels betrayed so he recruits his shipmates and steals the ship to become a pirate. Along the way he loses his hand to Rumplestiltskin disguised as a crocodile, whose wife left him for Killian. Then he ends up in Storybrook, Maine hundreds of years later because of a curse cast on fairy tale characters by Snow White's evil queen. He's fallen in love with Snow and Charming's daughter, Emma, and is fighting to redeem himself so he can be worthy of her love in return, so he's not exactly a good egg yet but he's trying to become one. I think Colin's a good actor with a great voice so it's more than just his look for me. The show can be silly sometimes but the writers are doing a good job exploring what it means to be a hero and what it means to be a villain, and how sometimes the two sides have more in common than we think. They are also exploring whether villains can redeem themselves enough to get their own happy endings. Even the Evil Queen is on a path to redemption.

It's all kind of got me Hooked, excuse the pun.

[olddots]

11. I had a huge crush on lots of cartoon charactors

Natasha from Rocky & Bullwinkle , Daisy Duck etc.... thats normal isn't it ?

[Liberalynn]

19. I think so!

I love Sylvester and Scooby still.

[Art_from_Ark]

45. I thought Ursula from George of the Jungle was "va va va voom"

[Liberalynn]

47. George ain't bad either

"George, George, George of the jungle watch out for that tree." I remember that song because we had a really bad taxi driver in town named George when we were kids, and we changed the lyrics to George of the taxi don't run over me.

[hifiguy]

62. George wasn't exactly the brightest bulb on the marquee, though.

[Liberalynn]

70. True!

[Art_from_Ark]

89. Sometimes, he didn't know his wife was a woman!

He even called her "Max" once.

[Arugula Latte]

107. olddots: This is for you

[lunamagica]

108. My first chrush was the Robot from lost in space

I was crazy about him.

Second crush, Mr Spock

[sir pball]

137. She'll probably kill me for this, but my wife is Jessica Rabbit..

There's a digital artist who "untoons" characters, by using Photoshop to take the flat image and turn it into a photorealistic rendering. Here's his Jessica…



And the missus…



Granted it isn't the BEST comparison, since we have yet yo ape the smokey lounge shot, but everybody who knows her and sees the untoon is creepily shocked.

"I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.."

[ailsagirl]

193. I loved Bugs Bunny

It must be normal!!

He was the quintessential cool cartoon character!! (look-- an unintentional triple alliteration!)

[chknltl]

20. The adorable but dumb Goldie Hawn! Watch this:

Hopefully you watched this all the way through and now see that I meant no insult to Miss Hawn when I called her dumb. She was a genius when it comes to being adorable as well.

[Liberalynn]

21. "We wanted to have a March in Washington but we got lost"

I love Goldie. Used to watch Laugh In all the time. I even loved Foul Play with her and Chevy Chase.

[chknltl]

22. They say that they don't make em like they used too.

I think 'they' are right in this case. I went looking for one of Miss Hawn's earlier pieces to post here, one from Rowan and Martin's Laugh In. This one with Dean Martin, (I forgot how rich his voice was), was just too precious to pass on so I posted it instead. I'd like to repost this as it's own OP here in the lounge but won't without your permission first. May I do so?

[Liberalynn]

23. Yes by all means!

[chknltl]

27. Done, thanks!

It already has a bunch of views and even a couple of recs. It had to make most of them smile and knowing that makes me smile too. Good night.
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[Manifestor_of_Light]

24. Hell yeah!!

Reminds me I'm not dead yet.
All the guys I have crushes on are in my age group (baby boomers in their 60s).

My avatar, Brian May. Guitarist in Queen and part-time astrophysicist. Age 67. Coolest guy on the planet.

Lewis Black. Met him once after a show a few years ago and wanted to hug and kiss him. Despite his angry rants, he's a really sweet man who has a total aura of NICE.
I even made him laugh. I'll put that on my resume. Age 66.

Sting. Age 63.

Roger Daltrey of The Who. Age 71.

Steve Winwood of Spencer Davis Group, Traffic and Blind Faith. Age 66.

[Bertha Venation]

31. You made Lewis Black laugh!

That is something I'd remember on my deathbed. Good for you!

[Liberalynn]

33. Some very talented musicians.

That's cool you got to meet Lewis Black.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

111. I forgot one.

Another very talented musician.

This cutie: Pat Metheny, famous jazz guitarist who learned all his licks from Wes Montgomery and Howard Roberts. He's 60 now. He met Wes Montgomery when he (Pat) was 13, shortly before Wes died. Wes told him: Son, you've gotta get above the fifth fret.

[mythology]

25. Only if you count specific characters

With the character I feel like I know the motivations and personality that it requires for me to find somebody attractive. But I know I have no idea who any of those people are in real life so I don't find myself attracted to the actresses as real life individuals.

For example, Lauren Graham's character in Gilmore Girls I have a crush on, but Lauren Graham's character in Parenthood didn't do anything for me.

Or Kristen Bell as the title character in Veronica Mars.

Or Donna Reed's Mary Hatch Bailey in It's a Wonderful Life.

[Liberalynn]

32. That's a good philosophy.

Mel Gibson is an example of that for me. I loved Riggs in Lethal Weapon and also liked his characters in Tequila Sunrise and Maverick, but not many others! Then there's what's been reported about his personality in real life which for me is unattractive and disturbing.

With Kevin Sorbo too. Absolutely adored him as Hercules but haven't found anything else in his body of work that I've enjoyed, and not impressed with him in any interviews that I've heard, but I realize those give you a limited view of an individual as well.

[pinboy3niner]

26. Miss Piggy

But somebody told me she's not real.

[Liberalynn]

34. LOL

You'll make Kermie jealous.

[Xyzse]

60. I actually agree.

[magical thyme]

28. always and forever...

[Liberalynn]

35. I like that attitude!

[steve2470]

29. Morgan Fairchild nt

[Liberalynn]

36. I've liked her in a lot of her roles.

I read J.D. Robbs aka Nora Roberts "In Death" novels and there is a character Nadine Furst whom I've always cast in my imagination with Morgan.

[steve2470]

38. I have to admit, I was far more shallow than you.

I thought she did a decent job in Flamingo Road. I can't remember where else I saw her, specifically.

[eppur_se_muova]

53. Yeah, that's the ticket !

(Someone had to say it ! )

[kwassa]

96. Who you've seen naked.

[Bertha Venation]

30. Mariska Hargitay.

Mm-hmm.

[Liberalynn]

37. Great actress

as well as beautiful.

[Bertha Venation]

39. Indeed, on both counts.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

116. Did you know she's Jayne Mansfield's daughter?

Jayne Mansfield was another blonde bombshell like Marilyn Monroe but not quite as famous. Her husband was Mickey Hargitay.

[Bertha Venation]

144. Yep . . .

. . . and Mariska had a horrible experience at age -- four, I think. She has said that she doesn't remember it.

She came from great talent and great genes.

[alarimer]

40. Yes.

James May, which is at least age-appropriate for me. I don't know why this happened. I like Top Gear. It's stupid, outrageous fun. I hate Clarkson as a person, though he is very funny on the show. I know, I know, it's sometimes offensive and obviously faked in some scenarios.

But James is the nerdy professor type that for some reason appeals to me.

[Liberalynn]

42. I am not too familiar with the show

but the nerdy professor type can be appealing.

[alarimer]

48. He does a lot of other things as well.

Toy Stories, in which they once made a giant version of a AirFix (model) Hawker Hurricane. Also a life-size Lego house.
Man Lab (which is not as sexist as it sounds), in which they attempt to teach guys what they think they should know. But it ends up being very silly things like building a pizza oven.

[hifiguy]

64. He even got to drive the Bugatti Veyron SS

at 260 mph on the Ehra-Leissen test track. Not bad for the guy they call Captain Slow.

Love the show, and Richard Hammond reminds me of Michael Palin every time I see or hear him.

[Callmecrazy]

41. I was kissed on the lips by Michelle Pfeiffer once thirty years ago...

and that's all it took to ruin me for all other women.

[Liberalynn]

44. That's great you got to meet her and get a kiss.

[steve2470]

104. how did you get so lucky ? She totally dissed me in Moscow! (true story)

I'm envious.

[Liberalynn]

43. Decided to add a You Tube Clip of Colin as Hook

https://m.youtube.com/?#/watch?v=tHsT_R8Zg-8

so you can have an idea of who I am talking about.

[LynneSin]

49. Crushes may come and go but there will always be one for me.....

But if I were to ever meet him today I'd just love to hang out with him and talk about music and what not while drinking coffee and maybe shuffling through a great vinyl record collection while listening to it.

[Liberalynn]

51. That sounds wonderful!

I've always wanted to do the same with Rick Springfield. I know most people just think pretty face, Jessie's Girl and General Hospital but he has written some rather deep songs about religion, greed, corporeal punishment, the environment, war and depression. It was those songs that drew me because it was like he was reading my mind about those things. His music got me through some tough times because it helped me realize I wasn't odd or alone. I've always wanted to thank him for that.

[LynneSin]

54. He's touring again

He hasn't stopped playing.

And I gained a whole new respect for him and his music after seeing him in the David Grohl documentary 'Sound City'. That was the documentary about the legendary Sound City Studio in Los Angeles where some legendary performers recorded some of the great classic albums including Nirvana's "Nevermind". Turns out Rick Springfield did much of his recording there. I always though of him as another pretty boy in a line of teen heart throbs but after that documentary I realized that the guy has real talented but suspect that his managers wanted to shove him into a niche that sSpringfield never really wanted. If you get a chance watch the documentary

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sound_City_(film)

[Liberalynn]

86. Thank You!

I will definitely try and check out the documentary. He also wrote a fiction book that had religious and ecology themes.

[bikebloke]

50. The young Natalie Baye

And the young Charlotte Rampling.

My crushes began back then. I guess it was in the 80's. But I'll still watch them now.

[Liberalynn]

52. The eighties were my favorite decade

except for Politics because of Raygun. Great choices.

[Number9Dream]

55. Natalie Wood

So beautiful and talented.

[Liberalynn]

75. She was truly beautiful

and was gone far too soon.

[OriginalGeek]

56. I am idiotically, slobberingly stupid in love

with Helen Mirren.

It's probably just a crush and not really love but I bet if we were magically able to get together and hang out and talk it would blossom into full blown love. On my end anyway. It would truly be magic if she enjoyed our talk even half as much as I would.


My wife is less amused by me Mirren crush. "oh look...it's your girrrrrrrrrrlfriend..." whenever she is on TV...

[Aristus]

65. I'm with you on that.

69 and she's still monstrously hot!...

[OriginalGeek]

92. I think I could happily return to stardust

after a hug and a kiss on the cheek from Ms. Mirren. Anything after that would be gravy.

[Liberalynn]

76. She is wonderful.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

122. I'm glad society is realizing that older women can be quite attractive.

No, ladies don't have to shrivel up. Helen Mirren and Judi Dench are still going strong. OriginalGeek, that is cool that you're crazy about Helen Mirren.

My hubby is still crushing on an "older woman" who was singing fifty years ago: Petula Clark, who is now 82. He better have somebody to crush on, because he gets sick of hearing about my "Personal Jesus&quot apologies to Depeche Mode), Brian May.

[OriginalGeek]

131. lol!

that seems like a pretty fair trade.

Some time, out of the blue, when you guys are headed downtown you should just randomly say "Oh, things'll be great now!" as you get into the city.


Helen isn't the only one but she is the one most likely to think of me as a blithering idiot if I ever did actually meet her because I would probably just giggle and cry and embarrass myself.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

132. Thanks!

I asked him two questions: 1)Do you have a pulse? 2)Do you like women?

He couldn't say no to either of those.

Fun fact: Told me he started noticing cleavage on the pretty nurses when he was five years old and in the hospital.
Circa 1951.

[OriginalGeek]

133. Heh, That reminds me of my friend

at work - his son was about 5 and they were watching the foodtv channel and Giada DeLaurentis' show came in. The kid watches the show for a couple minutes and then says "I like her, daddy" and my friend asked him "oh yeah? What do you like about her?"

"Her sweater".

LMAO!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

135. Cute!

Note to the Boobie Appreciation Society: Just look at our faces once in a while, OK??

[OriginalGeek]

138. I promise!

it's not always easy. In fact it's never easy but it's always worth the effort.

[woodsprite]

57. Liberalynn, You would have LOVED it!

When we had our Sandy storm damage fixed on the house (3 rooms rebuilt), we hired a small contracting firm to do the work. I looked forward to coming home for lunch every day so I could check the progress and chat with Tim, the owner. He looked exactly like Colin O'Donahue -- young enough to be a catch for my daughter, but alas, he was already taken

Edited to add: My boss's college-aged daughter loves Capt. Hook. While she was away on a trip, my boss ordered a life-sized full color cutout of Capt Hook and set it up in her bedroom holding a "Welcome back" sign.

[Liberalynn]

71. Sorry to hear you had damage from Sandy.

That's funny you met a Colin look alike. I bet your boss's daughter enjoyed her welcome home gift. I've seen the cardboard cutout as one of the writers of the show posted a picture of the actual Colin standing beside it in the writers' office on Twitter.

[Xyzse]

58. Not really, other than a far away acknowledgement that they are "hot"\"sexy", it is not a crush.

Stating that, I can acknowledge that there are both men and women that are just pure hotness.

I'll keep my list close to the chest at the moment however.

[Liberalynn]

72. Gotcha

[Xyzse]

87. Yep

I even have them by categories sorted in many ways.
Heck, I'd have to do it as a spreadsheet.

[woodsprite]

59. I can't pick just one...

Tom Mison (Ichabod Crane, Sleepy Hollow)
Colin O'Donahue (Capt. Hook, Once Upon a Time)
Johnny Depp (Capt. Jack Sparrow, et al)
Hugh Jackman (Wolverine)

[Liberalynn]

74. I really loved like your choices.

I also like Tom Mison. Taylor Kinney is also not bad to look at. My favorite though is still Julian McMahon. I wish someone would hurry up and put him back on television. He is going to be in a mini series on ScyFi but it sounds very depressing and I don't think he has a huge part.

[woodsprite]

94. I forgot about Taylor Kinney. I'll agree with that one!

I first saw him when I was stuck at home on sick leave. I spent the time watching Hulu and he was the newbie paramedic on the series "Trauma". I was glad to find him again on Chicago Fire.

[hifiguy]

61. Valerie Bertinelli.

Still, after all these years.

[Liberalynn]

77. She's one of those

people who always seems to make people smile when she does interviews.

[hifiguy]

81. She has always seemed so sweet and down to earth.

I read her autobio and she really is the girl next door. Not only that, she's a good liberal Democrat.

[Liberalynn]

85. It's always a plus when they are a Democrat too.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

63. I liked Zooey Deschanel, although her character on New Girl has gotten so annoying....

....it kind of takes the fun out of it.

[Liberalynn]

78. I hate it when the writers wreck a favorite character

especially if I really like the actor/actress portrayal.

[KMOD]

66. I have crushes on everybody.

[Liberalynn]

79. That's a nice thing to day!

[steve2470]

105. Sweetness, thou art KMOD nt

[KMOD]

110. .

[Manifestor_of_Light]

198. Hey we all need our personal fan clubs!

Meaning: People who like us.

[dawg]

67. Well ... I think it's harmless.

Her lawyers disagree.

It's not fair. How am I supposed to know where she is at all times just so I can stay 500 yards away?

[Liberalynn]

80. That's funny!

[CTyankee]

68. I just know that George Clooney would find me scintillating...

if only he could meet me. I'm sure he would find my ideas on politics fascinating and we would have these long conversations...

[Liberalynn]

82. That's probably true!

I don't think I could actually say hello let alone hold a conversation if I ever met him, I 'd be too busy drooling.

[CTyankee]

88. I'm sure he would understand and be very nice to you...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

112. Bluhdebluhdebluhdebluh......

Some men do that to women. The most famous example I've seen of that is Bill Clinton. Saw him in '92 when he was running for president and I turned into a gobsmacked blithering idiot that couldn't talk.

I think he does that to several million women around the world. I remember when he went to Russia and they did woman-on-the-street interviews. The ladies said things like, "Oh the women of America are so lucky! He's so good looking!". Too bad he was a moderate Republican but that's another subject.

The last famous guy I've seen perform live that impressed me with his charisma was Paul Stookey when I saw Peter, Paul and Mary perform shortly after 9/11 and went to the stage door and talked to them and their backup guitarist, Paul Prestopino. We talked to him a long time. He used to back up the Chad Mitchell Trio as well.

I saw this guy (Brian May) in concert last summer when one half of Queen + Adam Lambert were on tour but I was in a basketball arena so I didn't get to meet him.






When he was younger I think he was just about perfect. As in this picture:



Also a university chancellor and Ph.D. in astrophysics, and concerned about animal rights.

[dr.strangelove]

69. Mine has not changed since my teenage years - Its still Alyssa Milano

Her and Drew Barrymore, crushed on them since the 80s.

[Liberalynn]

83. I watched Alyssa in Whose the Boss and Charmed.

Cole and Phoebe are still my all time favorite fictional couple. I refused to acknowledge they did not end up together, it offended my want to be romance writer's sensibilities so I actually wrote my own fan fiction and posted it on fan fiction.net. I am still getting favorite notices from that even though it was several years ago.

Drew is great too.

[dr.strangelove]

103. I loved Who's the Boss as a kid

I was a bit older when Charmed was on and was not watching TV at that point, but I have caught a few episodes on reruns. It was a good show. I never liked the cole character, but it might be because I did not watch it religiously. I always saw him as a jerk who she was better without. Good for you on the fan fiction. I have started about 10 pieces, mostly based on Sci fi shows or Sci Fi books, but never finished one. I tend to be a big starter on creative outlets, but not much of a finisher. I have a dozen unfinished wood working projects in my basement that will one day be the reason my wife kills me.

[PasadenaTrudy]

73. Jonathan Banks

Mike on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul

[Liberalynn]

84. Great choice!

[WinkyDink]

91. See my choice of his co-star in "Wiseguy"!

[Liberalynn]

93. OK!

[lunamagica]

109. Good call. nt

[WinkyDink]

90. HELL, yeah! Chad Mitchell! Mike Pender (The Searchers)! Ken Wahl ("Wiseguy")!

[Liberalynn]

95. I remember that series.

Ken Wahl extremely good looking!

[kwassa]

97. Crushes? No, that would be scandalous.

[Liberalynn]

148. That is a gorgeous lady!

[Joe Shlabotnik]

98. Teen crushes: Christina Applegate, and Phoebe Cates.

I was a hoodlum teen in the 80's and Applegate was my age, and her Married with children character was just my type. Phoebe... well fast times at Ridgemont High, say no more unless its Moving in Stereo.

[Liberalynn]

149. Great choices

[Coventina]

195. Phoebe Cates is so drop-dead gorgeous I would totally switch teams for her.

I'm pretty much into men, but Phoebe Cates....

[Tom Ripley]

100. Besides Jodie?

[Liberalynn]

150. Jodie Foster?

A fantastic actress

[OxQQme]

101. Sandra Bullock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandra_Bullock !!

[Liberalynn]

151. Sandra is one of my favorite actresses

While I did not care for the movie Premonition I absolutely loved her chemistry in interviews with my favorite actor Julian McMahon. They cracked me up on their appearance together on Ellen and the interviews they did of each other on movie phone. Wished they had done a Rom com together instead of the dud Premonition.

I liked her even before she worked with Julian though. I also loved how she teased Julia Roberts about their "deal" about sharing George Clooney in a speech.

[hopemountain]

102. aidan quinn

or tom bergeron

sigh. be still my heart

[Liberalynn]

152. Both very handsome

[fizzgig]

106. i have a list of them a mile long

oh yeah, and can't forget this guy. i've been crushing on him since the mid-90s.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

115. Nice. I recognize Depp.

the others, I don't know who they are. Who are they?

That knife is a great example of mokume gane, the Japanese art of metalworking to fold different metals together and beat on them to make knives. Also used in jewelry with different colored metals to make patters.

[fizzgig]

119. first guy is david tenant

whom i know primarily as one of the many incarnations of dr. who. i was devastated when his run was over.

the other two guys are iron chefs - mike symon and morimoto. good-looking men in kitchens is damn near porn for me. i don't have cable anymore, but i tivo iron chef america at my dad's and hulu always has a half dozen episodes up for free, so i can still get my fix. hulu always has a half dozen episodes up streaming for free on the web site, if that's anything that's even remotely interesting to you. they don't have a morimoto battle up, but they have a symon one. it's gotten much more contrived than it was in the beginning, but i still find it entertaining.

and neat info on the knife! i drool a bit thinking about the knives they must have.

[ok_cpu]

127. I'm the same about beautiful women in the kitchen

Here's my current crush.

[fizzgig]

128. antonia!

that was a good season of top chef.

and i can't forget these women!



we ate at jax fish house in boulder after hosea won season five and he served us our amuse bouche. our table was near the kitchen and my sister and i sat facing it just so we could watch him through the window. he busted us staring at him

[Liberalynn]

154. She's beautiful

[Liberalynn]

153. Nice variety of looks and talent

[BarbaRosa]

113. Nancy Wilson

[Liberalynn]

155. Great voice

[valerief]

182. I don't know who that broad in the pic is, but I went through a Nancy Wilson song phase

not long ago.

[Mr.Bill]

114. I've had a crush on Caroline Kennedy

since I was in the first grade. Her and I are about the same age.

[Liberalynn]

156. She's beautiful and admirable

[pinboy3niner]

117. Ann-Margret

[Liberalynn]

157. Very talented dancer, singer, actress

[HeiressofBickworth]

118. I'm not sure you would call it a crush

but I do like the work of actor Mads Mikkelsen of Denmark. He isn't handsome or even good looking, but his on-screen presence is quite compelling. I try to see his movies whenever they come to town, which isn't very often. My favorite so far is A Royal Affair, the true story of the wife of King Christian VII of Denmark and the affair she had with the palace physician (Mikkelsen). I've had my eye out for him since I first saw him in the 2008 Flame & Citron. Those of you who don't follow foreign films might know him as Hannibal Lecter on TV.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

121. Interesting looking guy.

[Liberalynn]

158. There are people who can mesmerize with their talent and natural charisma

I never found Sam Waterston handsome but he is a favorite because of how talented and passionately he portrayed Jack McCoy on Law and Order.

[NewJeffCT]

120. Lynda Carter as Wonder Woman

was probably my first crush back mid to late 70s.

I would think since that time, I've probably had crushes on nearly every attractive female celebrity out there.

[Liberalynn]

159. Her eyes are so lovely

[ChazII]

123. Dan Blocker (Hoss)

from Bonanza. Adam, Little Joe and Candy had the pretty faces but Hoss was the gentle soul. I guess I am the odd one here at DU.

[MrMickeysMom]

125. Then, you'll like this….

[ChazII]

126. This is a video that I have never

seen before. Thank you for sharing it.

[Liberalynn]

160. Not odd at all.

Hoss was a great character. He was always there for his brothers and his Pa.

[ChazII]

183. Thank you, Liberalynn.

Hoss was there for his friends and family, this is true.

[catbyte]

124. Keanu Reeves since 1988.

He's 50 and still looks good.

[Liberalynn]

161. Yes he does!

[Laffy Kat]

129. ALWAYS!

They come on quickly, last about a year, and then peter out. I can't figure out what triggers my crushes but I actually enjoy them. Everyone needs something to daydream about while sitting in a traffic jam. I'm too embarrassed to mention any names.

[Liberalynn]

162. Thanks and that's okay for not sharing the names.

Secret crushes are the best. I also agree about needing to daydream. I do it when I get too upset with problems in my life and too frustrated with politics. It's been one of my go to stress relievers along with books, music, writing, and pet care taking.

[roody]

130. Cybill Shepherd and Jimmy Smits nt

[Liberalynn]

163. I loved Cybil's comedy series and Jimmy Smits in LA Law

[betsuni]

134. Carl Sagan

The special way he said "billions and billions," his turtleneck sweater and nerduroy jacket ensembles... Rocked my cosmos, man.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

139. Oh yes! Sagan was Mr. Cool!

There is a black and white picture of him that I cannot find at the moment that is lit like a Vermeer painting.
I've looked at it on my computer and it seems as if you look into his eyes and they are infinitely deep, like the universe.

[Liberalynn]

165. Great and sexy mind.My nerd crush is currently Dr. Michio Kaku

I'm not sure I have the spelling of his name right. He's a theoretical physicist, a university professor, and makes frequent appearance's on the science channel. How the Universe Works is one he's on quite often. Oddly enough when I get the most upset about how bad things in this world seems sometimes that I am almost at a breaking point, I put in a DVD of that show and between Mike Rowe's soothing voice, the Doctor's serene presence, and his ability to explain the beauty and complexity of the Universe in understandable terms, I calm down enough to regain perspective about life in general.

[hifiguy]

185. Kaku's books are great.

Like Carl Sagan he has the knack for explaining complex physics, even the exotic theoretical stuff, in terms the intelligent layperson can comprehend and understand.

[Still Blue in PDX]

136. Alan Rickman and Jason Isaacs are the first to come to mind.

Last night I discovered Jason Isaacs' new series, "Dig," and I'm digging it. Big time.

I was obsessed with David Tennant for a while, but I think it may have been The Doctor that I was really in love with, not the actor, although he was adorable in Fright Night. He's such a good actor that he becomes the character.

Julian McMahon was a big one for me, too. I spent a lot of hours watching Charmed on TNT.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

143. Alan Rickman has still got it!

Have you seen this music video he is in???? Dancing at a Shell station!!

[Still Blue in PDX]

145. Oh, yes - that's been one of my youtube favorites for quite some time!

Another one I like very much:

[Liberalynn]

166. Great choices!

I've been intrigued by promos for Dig! Will have to check it out. I first saw Julian on Charmed. Then I went and bought the full Profiler series on DVD and enjoyed seeing his earlier work. He is still my favorite. I wish he would get a regular series again and not just a mini series. I miss him.

Colin is the newest. My longest is Rick Springfield. Drake Hogestyn and Joe Lando deserve honorable mentions.

I also had crushes on Kevin Sorbo and Mel Gibson but then decided in the end it was their characters, Hercules for Kevin, Riggs for Mel, I actually liked not them, as I didn't care for their other roles or what's been shown or reported of their off screen personalities.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

140. I just finished a Mad Men Marathon and now have a huge crush on John Slattery/Roger Sterling

my current heart throb


more at link:
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0805476/?ref_=nv_sr_1

[Liberalynn]

167. Very distinguished and great eyes.

[KamaAina]

141. Beyonce

I keep hearing about there being trouble in paradise...

[Liberalynn]

168. She's so talented

Loved her serenading of the first lady and the President during the 1st Inauguration ball.

[clarice]

142. John Wayne. nt

[Liberalynn]

169. Used to watch his movies sometimes with my Dad

[mvd]

146. Yes - still plenty

I admit it. I am 38 so they are not like teen crushes, but still..

Some of them are:

Kaley Cuoco (says she had a conservative Christian upbringing but as long as she seems apolitical will keep her as a big crush)

Yvonne Zima (also some cron her sister Madeline)

Sharon Case

Zooey Deschanel

Ashley Greene

Olivia Wilde

Salma Hayek

A Fine Frenzy (real name Alison Sudol)

Michelle Branch

Christina Perri

[Liberalynn]

171. Alot of beautiful and talented ladies.

Interestingly enough I just became aware of Christina Perri because she is apparently a huge Once Upon A Time fan and is also a Hook/Emma shipper! She asked Colin to star in her "The Words" video. He agreed and I've seen it six or seven times now. Love her voice and her taste.

[Yonx]

147. Nicole Kidman

Beautiful.

[Liberalynn]

172. Talented as well.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

164. Can I mention a dead guy? Another musician.

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Robert Palmer, 1949-2003. Always wore a suit and looked sharp. Great soul singer. Only performer I've seen that could sing next to James Brown and not get blown off stage. There was a video of him singing with James Brown at the Taboo Club in Detroit that has been taken down.




When I was a kid going to the symphony, this guy was my favorite conductor (and my classical crush). He was fired in Houston for playing 20th century classical music in the 20th century (those rich old ladies couldn't handle Mahler, let along Pendrecki) and for chasing Mia Farrow before she was divorced from Frank Sinatra. Getting fired was a promotion. He went to the London Symphony Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony.

Andre Previn. He was writing movie music for MGM in Hollywood when he was sixteen, during World War II. He's still alive.

[Liberalynn]

173. Robert Palmer was ver handsome and talented.

The conductor was handsome as well.

[raptor_rider]

170. Let's see

Joe Kenda, Sean Connery, Christopher Lambert, Harrison Ford, Bruce Willis.... Many more. Have a thing for older men.

[Liberalynn]

174. There are some great looking older men.

My sister's is Mark Harmon.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

175. I just finished Season 2 of Breaking Bad

And I have to admit I was a bit oddly intrigued by Krysten Ritter.

[Paper Roses]

176. OK, I'm an old timer but: No mention of Keith? The one and only Olbermann? n/t

[Manifestor_of_Light]

179. Yes, quite handsome.

I've seen pics of him when his hair was dark and he had a fuzzy beard. I would not have given him the time of day then.

Now he's what's known as a "stone cold fox". Very good looking guy and quite intelligent.

[wordpix]

191. oh yeah I had a huge crush on him when he was on MSNBC

[Iris]

177. Richard Gere - from an Officer and a Gentlemen thru present.

[ailsagirl]

178. Mark Knopfler, Pete Townshend, Dylan

Brilliant men are very attractive!!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

180. Oh yeah. You noticed. Crazy musicians.

Definitely Townshend and Knopfler. I don't like the way Dylan usually sings but I do recognize that he has written some amazing lyrics. All of us boomers, even if we're not Dylan fans, know about "All Along the Watchtower" and some of his other songs.

Andy Summers of The Police is a musical genius (classical and jazz chops as well as rock) and cute and short.
I like shorter men because I am five foot two. Never understood that business that men are supposed to be tall, because I feel a lot more equal around a guy who is five foot seven or five foot eight.

Stewart Copeland, the drummer, called him "that little fucker". Andy is the older brother who had to break up fights between Sting and Stewart, because he's 8 or 9 years older than they are.

[ailsagirl]

186. I didn't know any of this-- interesting!!

I loved The Police (when they were around, at least)


Also, one musician I missed: Ray Davies

[Manifestor_of_Light]

192. There's a documentary movie out now called "Can't Stand Losing You".

It's based on Andy's book. It's in limited release but I hope it comes to the nearest big city so I can see it. Andy Summers has been making the rounds giving interviews to WSJ, Huffington Post, and so on. He was on the Jimmy Fallon show last Friday sitting in with the band. I can't believe I missed the Reunion Tour in 2008. I must have been under a rock. I watch the videos on YouTube of the Reunion Tour and they just knock me out, since they got even better and changed a few chords.

I saw them on the Synchronicity tour in 1983 and it is one of my most treasured memories of going to concerts with my big sister. She got her drivers' license when she was 14, in the early 60s, before they changed it to 16. We went to a lot of concerts together and we didn't have our mother sitting there frowning with cotton in her ears being a real downer. My mom's friends took their daughters to concerts and acted that way. We went to concerts for twenty years together, starting with the Righteous Brothers in '64.

This video of "Synchronicity II" from the Reunion Tour just knocks me on my ass. There's a crane shot from Stage Left at 3:41-3:43 that knocks me out with the majesty of the sound they are putting out. And Sting's looking like an alpha male studmuffin in his muscle shirt, as usual.

My mom used to shame me when I was in high school (but not getting any dates) for being "boy crazy". My sister and I constantly talked about boys we thought were "cute" and the parental units got tired of it. Well, that was 45 years ago and I don't think there's a cure for it while you're alive!! I think I finally got tired of her crap and said, "Oh, so you want me to look at girls? Is that it?" and she shut up.

Ray Davies is quite cool as well.

Ray is an awesome and unappreciated songwriter. Preservation Act II is a double CD rock opera. It is far better than "Tommy" or "Quadrophenia" and has much more musical variety and a more compelling story than those, but it is hardly even known about. It has British music hall songs, hard rock, serious choral arrangements and lovely acoustic guitar. And we all thought The Kinks only did hard rock.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preservation_Act_2

I saw The Kinks in 1979. Blondie was their opening act. Debbie Harry was cavorting in pedal pushers and generally making a fool of herself. They were really bad. This was before they got famous. I remember going to the restroom and some girl saying "Man that opening act is really terrible".

I started out as a classical music nut (took piano and violin lessons for years) and also listened to the Top 40 Radio in the sixties, seventies and eighties. I still love both genres and jazz, opera & chamber music as well.

[ailsagirl]

194. You really know your stuff!

Thanks for the post!

I'll keep my eye open for the Police film.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

197. Why thank you!!!

"Can't Stand Losing You" has a website and a Facebook page where you can keep up with where it's showing. I'm hoping it will come to the nearest big city... to a "theater near me" as they say.

I like to keep up with the bands (or fragments thereof) from my youth!!

I still crank CDs in my car. I don't do iPods or downloadable music. If it's Queen or The Police, then I am having a good day!

Their stuff never gets old! <---MOL Must NOT headbang in car!!

MOL headbanged at Tom Petty's show last year, waved her arms, and sang along to "She's a woman in LOOOOOVE!!!" like a complete idiot. But it was fun. At my age I have to sit down to headbang so I don't hurt myself.


My next exciting rock 'n' roll adventure: THE WHO 50th Anniversary Tour in April!!

And I'll probably go to the opera the next night and see Die Walkure. They're doing the Ring Cycle, one opera every April for four years in a row. That is four operas in four years. Last year it was Das Rheingold. Very avant-garde strange production that I loved. The old people hated it. The young people loved it.

I'm pretty eclectic.

[ailsagirl]

199. Lucky you, seeing The Who!!

I'm jealous. You'll have to report on everything that happens.

Cheers

[Manifestor_of_Light]

200. Yes I will!

I saw The Who in 1980 a couple of years after Moon died. Kenney Jones was their drummer then.

Last concert I went to was Sting in Dallas in January. That was not a tour, it was a one-off from his appearing in his musical in New York City.

[ailsagirl]

202. Have a great time, Manifestor_of_Light!

[valerief]

181. When I was @ 11, I thought Jerry Lewis was sexy. Ha! And I was an honor roll student!

When I was a little younger, I found Mighty Mouse kinda sexy. Yes, a cartoon mouse.

Now I'm an old broad, but I went though an I Love Jack Lemmon, I Love James Garner, and I Like Seth MacFarlane Even Though I'm Really Old phase.

[LWolf]

184. Nope.

I never really did; my mom had, and still, in her late 70s, has, excessive celebrity crushes and I think that may have played a part. I can think of maybe 3 celebrities that I like/d more than others, but not a "crush:"

Matt Damon, because he speaks out for teachers;

Kathy Bates, because she's successful in spite of her nonstandard "celebrity" age and shape;

And...Robin Williams. Because he made me laugh.

[RebelOne]

187. My present-day crush is Vin Diesel.

But I have heard rumors that he is sort of gay. Oh well.

[kath]

188. David Boreanaz

oh. My. God.

[wordpix]

190. Girlcrush on Taylor Swift

This is not sexual at all but I feel she touches me through her music. I'm in my 60's and play guitar/sing and I love playing/singing her songs. Crazy, I know, but she's the celeb I'd love to meet along with Tom Hanks, Paul McC and a few others, all men.

[benld74]

196. Jessica Alba

[irisblue]

201. my first celebrity crush was Sajid Khan

I was 10, my mom helped me write a fan letter, weeks later a photo came in the mail for me....I was soooooo excited. He was in a TV show called Maya.