Sexiest Person Not An Actor or Model . . . [Archive]

Edwardina

06-08-2000, 02:14 PM

I want to see who people find sexy for reasons other than their physical perfection. I want to hear about those whose attractiveness has something to do with their character. I'm not talking about like or admire, I'm talking about WANT!

A good example for me would be Emeril Lagasse. I love a man who can cook . . .

I guess you can use actors, but they have to be *character* actors, not beefcake leading man types, okay?

Eve

06-08-2000, 02:32 PM

I can't remember his name, but there is one history prof who shows up being interviewed on a lot of documentaries on The History Channel, Discovery and others. It's usually Western history—I mean, Western U.S. Cowboys and such. He's gorgeous—silver hair, steely blue eyes. Just Dreeeemy.

ThisYearsGirl

06-08-2000, 03:11 PM

I have a huge crush on Ben Folds, and also Joe Levy, a writer for Rolling Stone that they always interview on VH1.

Ozone

06-08-2000, 03:18 PM

Uuuu.... ME!! LOL! Seriously though, a woman I work with. She's incredible. Gorgeous body, great face, incredible smile, plus she's nice, has a great sense of humor, and can really cook. I can Feel the old "one-eye" start to tickle every time she's around. :D We're actually pretty good friends. Maybe that's part of the attraction too....? Too bad none of you guys can see her. :p

For me to be attracted to a woman, they MUST be nice. I really hate snobs, stuck up people are really unattractive. I also hate sleazy people. I have a friend (who happens to be a girl) who got drunk and wanted to "get busy" with me. Well, she's fairly sleazy, so HELL NO I'm not getting it on with her. She's really cute, and I like her as a friend, but I can't be attracted to a girl that I know has "been around".

As for turnons, all I can say is "DIMPLES". Don't know why, but I absolutely love a girl with dimples.. :)

Eve

06-08-2000, 03:20 PM

Damn. That lets me out, Ozone. I'm a snob, stuck-up, AND I'm sleazy.

Ozone

06-08-2000, 03:23 PM

Oh Eve, you make me laugh. That in itself is attractive. ;)

Mr. Cynical

06-08-2000, 03:28 PM

Eve, you've climbed another rung on the ladder :o)

That, and the way you set yourself up for my haircut joke was so gracious, I could have almost not posted it. :D

PunditLisa

06-08-2000, 03:53 PM

I love to watch men do physical labor. Fixing cars, lifting things, yard work. Especially if they're wearing those well-worn, faded jeans and work boots. No shirt or white t-shirt. I love the look of concentration on their face and their muscles all taut and sweaty.

Another image: Bruce Springsteen sweating on stage singing his heart out. Meat Loaf even emits sexuality when he performs and he ain't exactly filet mignon, if ya catch my drift.

Edwardina

06-08-2000, 04:41 PM

I once happened upon a guy in a college bookstore who was wearing threadbare jeans, a collarless white shirt with a thin blue stripe, had tousled brown hair, was clean-shaven, had bare feet, and was wearing a pretty big wooden cross strung on a string around his neck. He was standing on one leg like a stork with one foot touching the other leg at about the knee. He was just standing there, balanced like that, reading through one of the books. I have never been so fascinated by a complete stranger in all my life. I would have kissed him in a minute, without even thinking about it.

Arnold Winkelried

06-08-2000, 05:40 PM

Well, two people that would fit the bill for me are two women activists whom I also find attractive:

Jody Williams (http://www.nobel.se/laureates/peace-1997-2-cv.html), who shared the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize for her work with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines. This is an ordinary woman (not a millionaire) who started out a small organization and built it up to a worldwide movement.

Aung San Suu Kyi (http://metalab.unc.edu/freeburma/photos/phyo/suukyi.html), the Burmese independence leader who has tried to bring democracy to Myanmar. The military dictatorship in power annulled the last democratic elections and has put her under house arrest. (Bad luck for me! She's married.)

Of course, with activists like these, anyone wanting to date them should probably be prepared to "go down in the trenches" and help them with their cause.

Eve

06-09-2000, 08:53 AM

Hey, good news for you, Arnie—Aung San Suu Kyi's husband died a few months ago!

Now, if you can just shoot your way into her guarded compound in Myanmar . . .

xizor

06-09-2000, 09:30 AM

I hate to admit it, but Tonya Harding has that affect on me. I wouldn't want to date her or anything, but because of her bad girl image makes me wonder what she is like in bed...

hawthorne

06-09-2000, 09:30 AM

Yes, Aung San Suu Kyi's husband died. And the SLORC wouldn't let her see him on his deathbed.

Dumbguy

06-09-2000, 12:12 PM

Pretty much any woman that plays guitar and sings is attractive to me, including but not limited to: Kim Deal, Jane Wiedlin, Kim Shattuck, Chrissy Hynde, Liz Phair, Courtney Love, Louise Post, Ani DiFranco, Carla Bozulich...

Love em all.

Vanix

06-09-2000, 12:30 PM

I hear Kurt Godel was a big hit with the ladies in his time.

Nacho4Sara

06-09-2000, 12:36 PM

Brian McFayden, a new MTV news anchor, is just the hottest man ever. Ten to the hour, every hour, I'm there, and I hear he is getting his own show!! :) I think I find him so attractive because he has a bad-boy aspect to his personality. And his voice is sexy...and he does this eyebrow thing. Wow. He's probably too old for me, like 25, but still. I'd be on that in a second!

Also, there is a guy at my college...he was in my Lit class briefly and then he dropped it. I talked to him for two minutes...anyway, he has black hair, tousled and spiky in the front, brown eyes, tall. He wears this black-ribbed turtleneck with jeans. I love artsy boys. I think his name is Dominic, but he has a girlfriend. Oh well. :)

Arnold Winkelried

06-09-2000, 04:34 PM

I didn't know that Aung San Suu Kyi's husband had died. How sad. :(

I'm not surprised that the military dictatorship (aka SLORC) denied visas to her husband (englishman Michael Aris) to go see her. They have been trying to get her to leave the country ever since she has started her campaign for democracy in Myanmar.

GreenEyes

06-09-2000, 05:02 PM

Hmmm.. Let's see.. someone not an actor and not famous. Someone who is witty, super smart and in my opinion just sexier than all getout..

Oh, this is just too easy.. <grin>

tracer

06-09-2000, 05:34 PM

Some time over a decade ago, People Magazine declared Lee Iacocca to be the Sexiest Man Alive.

I have to wonder what they were smoking when they made that decision, though....

Edwardina

06-09-2000, 05:59 PM

I think Joe Bob Briggs, host of TNT's Monstervision, is quite a dish. He's not an actor, exactly.

London_Calling

06-09-2000, 06:11 PM

Understand and echo the sentiment – I think that’s what it was – with regard to the elegant and dignified Aung San Suu. And great, great bones but would you really want to jump ‘em every five minutes. Hmm, maybe. May God rest her husband.

Anyway, mine’s a strange one. No beauty by any stretch and had a few difficult time’s but I’d just love to check out the chemistry - an awful, awful lot. Carrie Fisher since she turned 30 (no, it’s not a Princess Leia thing and there is no way in hell she’s an actress). Not elegant, not a beauty but I love the way her mind works. Just hits the spot, a lot.

tracer

06-09-2000, 06:35 PM

London_Calling wrote:

Carrie Fisher since she turned 30 (no, it’s not a Princess Leia thing and there is no way in hell she’s an actress).

Be careful, or all the Star Wars fans here might come after you with their plastic lightsabers....

London_Calling

06-09-2000, 07:38 PM

And i thought it was just the way they walked.........

SkeptiJess

06-09-2000, 09:22 PM

I had a bit of a lech for Bill Maher of Politically Incorrect -- until I heard him make a really bone-headed Luddite remark on his show... I just can't lust after a person I don't respect.

After watching Dogma and Clerks recently, I discovered that I'm attracted to Kevin Smith (Silent Bob). What can I say -- I'd jump him in a minute.

tshirts

06-09-2000, 09:43 PM

Once David Letterman started to say Martha Stewart was hot, I started to see it. She looks a lot like my ex, so maybe she's my type. (I prefer to say my type is a hotter dresser, but I'm really a sucker for a good cook and a well-relaxed hostess. When I'm introduced to one at a party, I go home planning about how to invite her back right away.)

matt_mcl

06-10-2000, 03:42 AM

CBC journalists... both my mom and I seem to have a thing for them. I have dibbs on Eric Sorensen and Michael MacAuliffe. She's got a crush on Ian Hanomansing. And of course, she married my father :)

manhattan

06-12-2000, 02:04 PM

Warning: New York-specific joke approaching.

Well, there is a certain someone. She’s been the person to wake me in the morning for the past 12-plus years. She shares my joy in happy news, and has compassion and empathy when things are bad. She makes sure I never forget my umbrella, and even has a knack for predicting whether I’m going to have a good day at work. If that combo isn’t sexy, I don’t know what it.

Yes, to me the sexiest person not a model or actress is Judy DeAngelis (http://www.1010wins.com/bios/deangelis.html).

gobear

06-12-2000, 02:57 PM

Here's my list of non-actors or models I would like to jump.
(list)
(*)David Bloom, White House reporter and weekend news anchor for NBC News. He's intelligent, well-spoken, and H-O-T.
(*)Matt Drudge. He's too conservative politically and a closet queen, to boot, but I find him irrestibly sexy.
(*)Esprix. I found his posts intelligent and engaging, and then I saw his picture. Woo-hoo!
(*)Bill Nye, Science Guy. He's not the physical type I usually go after, but he is such a hoot to watch I think we'd have a lot of fun just talking before and after sex.
(*)Henry Rollins. He's a brilliant conversationalist, if a bit self-absorbed, he's intense and brooding(big turnons for me) and, Hail Mary, what a body!

ReservoirDog

06-12-2000, 04:31 PM

(*)Henry Rollins. He's a brilliant conversationalist, if a bit self-absorbed, he's intense and brooding(big turnons for me) and, Hail Mary, what a body!

Careful. He's a liar.

Danielinthewolvesden

06-12-2000, 05:16 PM

Well, based on various posts in the Temptress thread, I'm casting my "vote' for Diane, again. ;)

stuyguy

06-12-2000, 07:24 PM

Eve:

Your historian dreamboat is probably David Mcullough, but it might be Steven Ambrose. Here, pick one:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/aemcullough.html

http://web-cr05.pbs.org/newshour/gergen/december97/ambrose_12-8.html

Koffing

06-12-2000, 08:29 PM

Female bassists rule. There's just something about them, especially Sean Yseault (http://bibinsa5.insa-tlse.fr/~rzr/zombie/pictures/seandng.jpg) and Melissa Auf der Maur (http://www.gurlpages.com/music/bassgrrl/melissa.html).

My, oh, my.

Oh, and my newscaster of choice: Darieth Chisolm (http://www.realpittsburgh.com/partners/wpxi/staff/dchisolm.html).

stuyguy

06-12-2000, 11:15 PM

Yes, Judy is indeed a babe. (What a voice!)

Typo Negative

06-13-2000, 04:28 AM

Edwardina

06-13-2000, 08:15 AM

I think Joe Bob Briggs, host of TNT's Monstervision, is quite a dish. He's not an actor, exactly.

He is, actually. His name is John Bloom. He does the 'God Stuff' segments on 'The Daily Show' and played and incompetant pit boss in 'Casino".

Well, I guess I should have said "He's not *just* an actor." I think he's more of a comedian/parodist (did I just make up that word?) Anyway, I knew of his other identity, but it's the Joe Bob Briggs one I find sexy, not the other one, for whatever weird reason. He once did a whole episode of Monstervision in the cutest pair of men's print pajamas . . . Print-Pajama-Fu!

Esprix

06-13-2000, 02:50 PM

goboy wrote:

Esprix. I found his posts intelligent and engaging, and then I saw his picture. Woo-hoo!

Pardon me while I blush myself into a nice tan... :o

I will also note that my unrequited love matt did not mention me in his list... {SIGH}

As for me? Well, do porn stars count as actors? :D

Esprix

matt_mcl

06-13-2000, 03:28 PM

Esprix: I can't believe it. I was stuck in famous-people mode. I'm so sorry.

Hey.... If I'm your unrequited love, and you're my unrequited love, why don't we get together sometime and requite each other? :)

Edwardina

06-15-2000, 05:49 PM

He does act now, but

Harry Connick, Jr.

started out as a musician. What a voice! Love that Louisiana-drawl.

Anti Pro

06-15-2000, 10:01 PM

Can there ever be another Wally or Coldfire??

They are funny, quick with their wit and sharp as tacks and that's a sexy combo if there ever was one!

Nacho4Sara

06-15-2000, 11:45 PM

Both are sexy too. :) I seem to have a thing for older men, and as older men goes, Wally is quite the hottie - right up there with Richard Gere and Harrison Ford if you ask me!

AND he gave me this awesome sig line...
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Nacho4Sara

06-15-2000, 11:47 PM

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Baglady

06-16-2000, 01:59 AM

A good example for me would be Emeril Lagasse. I love a man who can cook . . .

*BAM*!! Guess I'm not the only one who used to fantasize while watching Food TV Network (and it wasn't about food!) ;)

I can think of two off the top of my head, and they're both famous baseball players:

Alex Rodriguez (http://mrshowbiz.go.com/people/alexrodriguez/), shortstop for the Seattle Mariners.

Derek Jeter (http://www.yankees.com/clubhouse/jeter_frames.php3 ), shortstop for the NY Yankees.

Both are sexy hunks, uber-dreamy, totally to-die for, and single!!!.

Oh wait... my sexiest person not an actor or model would be.... Obfusciatrist (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/member.php?action=getinfo&userid=4905)!!!

DRY

06-16-2000, 02:16 AM

Kiva

06-16-2000, 03:02 AM

I can think of two off the top of my head, and they're both famous baseball players:

Alex Rodriguez (http://mrshowbiz.go.com/people/alexrodriguez/), shortstop for the Seattle Mariners.

Derek Jeter (http://www.yankees.com/clubhouse/jeter_frames.php3 ), shortstop for the NY Yankees.

Both are sexy hunks, uber-dreamy, totally to-die for, and single!!!

Y'know, I sort of understand about Alex, but this general obsession with Derek Jeter has me puzzled.

My picks:
David Gossett
James Lileks
Jakob Dylan

flikker

06-18-2000, 12:42 AM

easy...it's gotta be DPR!!!!!!!

ROFLMFAO....
soz

:)

Nutty Bunny

06-18-2000, 06:01 PM

I'm glad my crushes on Kevin Smith and Ben Folds have been validated here. (see "Laminated List" thread)

But I almost forgot Kurt Browning, Canadian figure skater. He's got an ass I could just sink my teeth into!

betenoir

06-19-2000, 12:35 AM

Edwardina

06-19-2000, 09:11 AM

Hey,I thought this was supposed to be about "people you find sexy for reasons other that physical perfection". And everybodies talking about hunks and asses.

In keeping with the original gist I'm going with Leonard Cohen. Going by the pictures on the CDs he des nothing for me. He looks like an even more hangdog Al Pacino. But "I'm Your Man" is the sexiest song ever written. And "Dance me to the End of Love". I would love to get into a self-destructive relationship with him.

Thank you, betenoir, for remembering the original mission statement of this thread!

I was aiming to hear about people that we dig because of their style, some intangible quality they have that causes our internal combustion engines to fire rapidly. I really like yours, betenoir, it was exactly the kind of thing I was hoping to hear about. Kind of like what Jack Palance was talking about in that Aqua Velva commercial (or whatever aftershave it was), where he goes: "Confidence is so sexy, don't you think?"

Oh, yes, Jack, yes!

Eve

06-19-2000, 09:26 AM

Stuy, my Learning Channel Dreamboat is definitely NOT David Mcullough or Steven Ambrose! Yikes.

This guy is in his (I think) 40s, and is not well-known at all. Just shows up on these documentaries pretty regularly. I think he's a history prof at some college, maybe in Calif. Trouble is, you can tell he KNOWS how good-looking he is . . .

vanilla

06-30-2000, 09:20 PM

A good example for me would be Emeril Lagasse. I love a man who can cook
yep, Burt Wolf too!
Also Joey Ramone! He isn't conventionally attractive, but theres that certain Joeyness about him. mmmmmmmm;)