Balls and Walnuts
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The hots
Beyond my comprehension: the nerve of People magazine declaring someone, anyone, the sexiest man alive. Maybe it’s just the paradox that one woman’s hottie is another woman’s slime bucket. To wit,
Um.
No, really, I overheard some women at work talking about it, and words like “greasy” and “slimy” were tossed around with abandon. And People just picked Depp for SMA back in 2003. Look at this list, does this make any sense at all?
1985 – Mel Gibson, 29 – First person chosen
1986 – Mark Harmon, 34
1987 – Harry Hamlin, 35
1988 – John F. Kennedy Jr., 27 – longest gap between selections (eighteen months); only winner now deceased; youngest winner. Only non actor to win.
1989 – Sean Connery, 59 – oldest winner
1990 – Tom Cruise, 28
1991 – Patrick Swayze, 39
1992 – Nick Nolte, 51
1993 – Richard Gere, 44 & Cindy Crawford, 27 – People took a one-year hiatus from Sexiest Man and instead awarded Sexiest Couple
1995 – Brad Pitt, 31 – first of two awards
1996 – Denzel Washington, 41 – first and only African American winner
1997 – George Clooney, 36
1998 – Harrison Ford, 56
1999 – Richard Gere, 50 – first two-time winner (previous win was shared)
2000 – Brad Pitt, 36 – first solo two-time winner
2001 – Pierce Brosnan, 48
2002 – Ben Affleck, 30
2003 – Johnny Depp, 40
2004 – Jude Law, 31 – youngest British winner
2005 – Matthew McConaughey, 36
2006 – George Clooney, 45
2007 – Matt Damon, 37
Crazy people are overrepresented (Tom Cruise, Mel Gibson). And some of these are just plain sad. Harry Hamlin? Nick Nolte?
Dude!
So maybe it’s not a physical thing. Like Tracy was saying in her comment to the Tiger Woods post, maybe it’s all about fame. I mean there must be some reason why groupies find people like Steven Tyler irresistible.
Erm.
Looks like the Surgeon General of Beverly Hills had his way with the man.
Sex appeal is so much easier to understand with women than with men.
D.
Harry Hamlin was quite sexxy, but I agree with you about Nolte.
Yeah, I’m not sure Nolte was EVER sexy, unless the “rough around the edges” appeal translates to “dragged behind a car for five hundred yards.”
Patrick Swayze and JFK Jr. are dead.
Yup. Patrick Swayze by pancreatic cancer, the same thing that killed my father-in-law; JFK Jr. by plane crash. RIP.