Women: Tilda Swinton, Fairuza Balk, Clea Duvall, Summer Glau
I’ll also throw Uma Thurman into the mix. My sister and I always talk about how strange it is that she has all the classical Indian features of Maharashtrians as a blonde Caucasian. Dye her hair black and tan her up and she would be considered a totally gorgeous Konkanasth Maharashtrian brahmin, down to the buggy light eyes (they all have bug eyes in green-hazel or light blue) and beaky looking nose. However, it seems like a lot of Americans consider her hideous but she looks like one of those apsara chick paintings that litter my parents’ house.
Men: guys who are kind of busted looking featurs-wise if you inspect them closely, but possess a really raw sexuality that make them attractive. Like the hideous new James Bond, Clive Owen. They’re not ridiculously goodlooking like George Clooney or Jon Hamm, but they’re super hot.
Well, just about any actor or actress is going to be reasonably hot (or in rare instances, well known for not being so), but there are always some that seem to be held up as the creme de la creme. The George Clooneys, the Angelina Jolies, the ones who always find their way onto magazine covers, or Hot 100, or World’s Sexiest lists.
But the thing is, I don’t know who makes those lists; Angelina Jolie doesn’t do a thing for me, and there are plenty of women not on the list that do. Someone must be reading those lists, and agreeing with them, but it’s not me. So that’s why lots of these names can still be considered unconventional choices.
I’ll add Megan Mullally to the mix. I was never a fan of Will & Grace, and the few times I’ve seen it her character was utterly annoying and unsympathetic. But the portrayal was so over-the-top and fearless that I like the actress. And I’m a sucker for a babe with glasses.
In the real world, she’d turn heads, but I don’t expect I’ll see her on any magazine covers anytime soon.
And her latest commercials kinda killed it. Nobody should be that excited about margarine, even if you’re pretending, and no matter how much you’re being paid.
I can’t quite figure out what you’re trying to say but I’m guessing you think that phrase followed by Clive Owen’s name means that I’m implying Clive is the new James Bond? Sorry, that’s not what I mean, I simply didn’t remember the name of the butter face blonde with the pretty blue eyes who currently plays the new James Bond and I was just trying to list a couple of examples. But I guess that goes back to that stupid point that a list can’t just be made up of two items, even if not bullet pointed!
I always thought that both of the lead actresses from Frasier (Jane Leeves as Daphne and Peri Gilpin as Roz) were STUNNERS, but no one else (at least Hollywood gossip mags or entertainment TV shows) ever seemed to view them as sex-symbols.
I also think Jami Gertz, Maura Tierney and Mary Louise Parker are all classically beautiful/supermodel material and I would imagine that 95% of the men alive today would agree with me.
Everytime I see the few episodes of Everybody Loves Raymond featuring actor David Proval (who was on the Sopranos) as the glum, glowering Marco, I can’t help but think, damn, he’s a fine looking man. Of a certain age.
Not so much strange, I guess. But I would step over my dying mother for Drew Barrymore. Her lisp makes her like the world’s most adorable stroke victim.
And Winona Ryder and Jennifer Jason Leigh are up there, too.
I second the mention of the “creepy girl” Fairuza Balk. And add a Rose McGowan to the mix.
With the possible exception of Fairuza Balk (who I thought was crazy hot in The Waterboy), I doubt that you’d really have to argue with the average guy about whether or not these women are attractive.
Bam Margera,. He’s a skeezy, obnoxious, drunken little bastard, so why did he take my breath away when I saw the first Jackass movie? What the hell is wrong with me?
Ever since Roseanne’s early days, I’ve had a thing for Dan Goodman. He’s not good-looking. He’s only ‘in shape’ in the sense that (as the joke goes) ‘round is a shape’. But he just looks like such a fun guy that I have to think, can a guy who’s that much fun out of bed not be fun in bed?
Yep, not good-looking, but crazy sexy.
