O.K., these are kind of embarassing, but I find them oddly attractive:
Chelsea Clinton
Sandra Bernhardt
The woman who does Bart Simpson’s voice (I don’t know how I forgot her name since it’s in the credits of every episode, but I did.)
Maybe these next two don’t count. They’re probably both good-looking by any standard, but I don’t think they’re “supermodel” kind of attractive, so I’ll include them:
Sandra Oh - was on the HBO show Arliss, and had a part in The Red Violin, etc. She kind of has an odd-shaped face, but there’s something very sexy about her.
Mary Lynn Rajskub - “24”, and The Larry Sanders Show. I think we’ve talked about her in previous threads.
Tina Majorino, from Napoleon Dynamite. Yep, she’s the former child star, ten years later, looking rather elfin, like Bjork. The silly ponytail out the side of her head is quite endearing.
Also a big fan of Alyson Hannigan and Gillian Anderson. They sort of define the term “believably gorgeous.” Unlike, say, Pamela Anderson or Carmen Electra, they look like actual people instead of like genetically modified supermodels. They look ordinary enough that you have no trouble believing they’re the character they portray, but just beautiful enough that you can’t look away. More Mary Ann than Ginger, more Baily Quarters than Loni Anderson.
Try as I might, I can’t really think of anybody who belongs in here right now. (Most of the people listed are more “I can’t explain why they’re hot” than “most people think they’re ugly but I don’t.”) I do think Janeane Garofalo is very attractive (more so with the dark hair), but I don’t think that’s so unusual given what I’ve heard from other people, especially Dopers. My girlfriend likes her too, so if we can just broach the subject to Janeane… Would I be unusual for saying Tori Amos has je ne sais quot in spades? Lastly, I have kind of a crush on Judi Dench, but it’s not sexual - though I’m told she used to be something to see.
** Steven Tyler**, I cannot look away from him. If he’s on TV I’m just mesmerized. I don’t know what it is. He’s not pretty by any means. But OMG, there’s something about him…
**Alan Rickman, ** especially when he’s a bad guy. You wouldn’t find me fighting against the advances of the Sheriff of Nottingham or Professor Snape.
Jason David Frank, Yes, Dr. Tommy Oliver from Power Rangers Dino Thunder. I’ve got the hots for the Black Ranger.
I’ll jump on Billy Bob Thornton…I mean, his bandwagon. I definitely agree about Gary Sinise, and will add David Hyde Pierce and Miguel Ferrer. That voice! Oddly enough, I first discovered both Sinise and Ferrer in The Stand…these days, Ferrer can be seen as the boss on Crossing Jordan.
To echo others’ observations, there’s way too many conventionally attractive names in this thread.
Mine:
J.T. Walsh (yeah, I know he’s dead)
Eli Wallach (his younger self; he turns 89 this year)
John Belushi
Michael Ironside (balding toughguy character actor)
Powers Boothe (see above)
Michael Kitchen (older Brit character actor)
“Bratpack”-er Judd Nelson (on the basis of his dark charisma alone, and not his flaring nostrils)
Klaus Maria Brandauer (doughy Austrian character actor)
deranged game-show pioneer Chuck Barris (in his “Gong Show” days)
sports announcer Al Michaels
tightly-wound ABC reporter John McWethy (White House, Pentagon, Defense Dept. beat)
Tony Levin (totally bald musician; plays bass and Chapman Stick)
and perhaps most disturbingly:
Bill O’Reilly. Yes, he’s obnoxious, full of himself, intellectually dishonest, overbearing, rude and unfair to his guests, and has his head up his rear end on many issues, but he’s also strangely appealing, in a Cher-meets-Jack Nicholson-in-“The Witches of Eastwick” sort of way. So I don’t watch his show; too much internal conflict.
When Steven Wright was younger and had a full head of hair, I thought he was quite hot. Some men can carry baldness, but he hasn’t turned out to be one of them.
Kiefer and Donald Sutherland both share that incredible voice. It doesn’t matter what they look like!
I don’t know - he seems to come off as a funny and reasonably intelligent guy in interviews. And he’s got a great body. And he’s rumored to be hung like a horse. So there you go.
I’ve always loved Buscemi as an actor, but I never thought he was attractive… until recently. Now… I don’t know. There’s just something about him. I also like Quentin Tarantino - someone to make out with and watch kung fu movies with! Sign me up, baby.
Then there’s Peter Dinklage. I don’t know. I don’t find it so strange. But I think a lot of girls couldn’t get past the height thing, so for now, I’ll say he counts. Regardless of height, though, dude is a sexy mofo.
Did I mention I don’t know? Because I don’t. At all. So much so that I had to point it out in every friggin’ sentence. Sometimes, man… I just don’t know.
True, true. He actually seems quite bright, well-read, and has wide-ranging interests – all in all, a lot higher up on the intelligence scale than one might guess. The “loathsome, offensive brute” line was a quote from Seinfeld (about Kramer), and I may or may not have meant it. I don’t know.
Well, it would be greater if there were a few less bones and tendons showing through the skin. But he’s managed to stay fit, at least.
That’s not just a rumor. I have no personal experience with Mr. Pop, but he hasn’t always kept it in his pants when before the cameras. :eek:
Would I be unusual for saying Tori Amos has je ne sais quot in spades? Lastly, I have kind of a crush on Judi Dench, but it’s not sexual - though I’m told she used to be something to see.
