Gutenberg?
Seriously?
Well the Stonecutters helped him.
Don’t know about top ten, but Ricardo Montalban deserves top twenty status certainly.
That, or uh, his Dudeness, or uh Duder, or uh El Duderino, if, you know, you’re not into the whole brevity thing–uh.
**lissener, **
While I enjoyed the output of your latest newsletter, it seems way to U.S. centric. While we agree on McQueen, Mitchum and Bogart, your leaving out Eastwood and Newman shows a lack of judgement. Belmondo squeezes into the list, but there are other dudes that I rate higher, to wit:
Jean Reno
Richard Burton
Peter O’Toole
John Malkovich
Also, when you publish your list of coolest dudettes, should Ellen Barkin not appear, I will cancel my subscription.
Sincerely,
Charlie Tan
Clint Eastwood - The dude is fucking Dirty Harry for Christ’s sake. The Man With No Name?
Samuel L Jackson - The guy is so cool, he can intentionally make a movie as bad as Snakes on a Plane and still make it cool.
Bruce Willis - He would be on that list if he never made another movie after Die Hard.
Clive Owen - He’s too new to really be compared to some of the other guys, but have you ever seen a movie where he wasn’t cool?
George Clooney - His real life is actually probably cooler than his movies. And those are pretty freakin cool.
Sean Connery - He started off as James Bond and just kept getting cooler.
He’s like Gen-X cool.
James Coburn and Lee Van Cleef.
The problem with most current actors is that so few of them are cool in the classic mold. Daniel Craig and Samuel L. Jackson are exceptions because the coolest actors carry an air of sociopathic menace wherever they go. Clive Owen is cool in a world weary, Bogart manner. Harrison Ford and Bruce Willis try, but they just don’t have It.
John Cusack, on the other hand, is the complete polar opposite of cool. And Jeff Bridges? Are you in the wrong thread? His dad, sure. Lloyd es mas macho. But Jeff is barely cooler than Beau.
I was coming in here to say George Clooney, butmsmith537 beat me to it.
Pooh is the epitome of cool. Indeed, with Pooh everything is nothing but cool. Tail fall off? That’s cool, Pooh’ll find it and nail it back on (and you’ll like it). Want to mount an expotition to the North Pole? Pooh will find it without a second thought. Who else could fall out of a tree whilst pointing out the errors in the plan on the way down, as well as admitting his flaws?
Said re John Cusack:
Yeah. He’s also like kick your ass, smoke a cigarette, then impregnate your girlfriend and make you raise his child cool…
I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again: I would renounce my heterosexuality if I thought I’d have a shot with Mr Cusack. That’s a sexy sexy man.
Paul Newman
Steve McQueen
Cary Grant
Robert Mitchum
Sean Connery
Lee Marvin
James Dean
Yeah, and all I have to do is make one comment, he’ll go into an existential crisis, start pining over some ex-girlfriend and I’ll take him out with a quick snap-kick to the gnads while he’s defenseless holding a boom-box over his head.
Well, I’ve been told on several occassions that I look like him so I’ll have to agree with you there.
No mention of Jason Statham?
Harrison Ford surely makes the list? Indiana Jones, ladies and gentlemen, was EXTREMELY cool. The definition of cool, a man who was cool without trying to be cool, which is what cool’s all about.
Chiwetel Ejiafor
Try Donal Logan.
Michael Caine.
I’m a bit disappointed by the exclusion of Clint Eastwood and Paul Newman.
You know, maybe there should be 3 lists for male actors: Cool, Tough, and Badass. 
Well, I don’t have any heterosexuality to renounce, but Cusack’s not my type.
Gary Cooper, on the other hand . . .
An oldie but a greaty Burt Lancaster.