Rosemary has taken over the bulk of the posting duties for the book-writing Dean, and she delivers a post on a subject near and dear to my heart: men. Specifically, she asks commenters to “name five famous men…that are not classically pretty/handsome but really sexy.” My choices were (with a little editorial comment added):
• Wesley Snipes (it’s the beautiful skin and the gap)
• Edward Norton (it’s that long, lean frame; as long as we don’t talk politics)
• George W. Bush (it’s the love he seems to have for women in general, and one woman in particular)
• Sting (ditto)
• Patrick Stewart (proudly gray and bald)
But only five? I’ve got to submit just five more.
• Ari Fleischer (it’s the smile when he would stick the dagger in; boy, was I not happy when he resigned his post as White House Spokesman)
• Magic Johnson (it’s the joy of life on whatever terms; he turned his personal lemon into lemonade for LA)
• Kelly Wright (FoxNews reporter; it’s that voice and the smoothness)
• The late Jack Palance (All Hail the tough guy)
• The late Fred Rogers (All Hail the sweet guy)
And here are five guys I think are babelicious that are generally thought of as such:
• Mel Gibson (gets older and better looking each year)
• D’Angelo (I’d have bought his last CD just for the front cover alone)
• Derek Jeter (whenever the New York Yankees are televised, he should have a personal body camera)
• Dwayne Johnson aka the Rock (Baby! Is there any explanation required?)
• Viggo Mortensen (codicil: no talking and no shaving off the mustache and beard)
And just because I am unable to leave well enough alone, here are five guys who are generally thought of as handsome and/or sexy, but leave me cold:
• Ben Affleck (girly man; he’s almost as pretty as his woman)
• Orlando Bloom (girly man squared, at least in the Lord of the Rings trilogy)
• Denzel Washington (handsome, indeed, but something about him doesn’t light the fire)
• Bill Clinton (need you ask?)
• Kobe Bryant (even before his self-inflicted troubles, I thought he was a little twit)
MORE: In this post, I mentioned perils of the roommate sweepstakes for military members. One of my cooler roommates, LP, had a standard exclamation for a guy who was really good-looking or butt-ugly: “Oughta be a law!” You knew which one she meant by the tone of voice mostly and the object of her exclamation for the rest.
Here’s the winner of my own personal “oughta-be-a-law” sweepstakes; you make the call for which one I mean.
James Carville
