No such list is complete without Sam Cassell.
I’ll grant the “average looks” conclusion based on these:
But I have seen some shots of her that would back a dog off a meat truck.
“It begins and ends with Brezhnev”
I don’t know if he’s ugly, but he has a weird-shaped head. Now, Popeye Jones, on the other hand…
Why the absence of Abe Vigoda?
John Belushi
Bill Murray
Christiane Amanpour - To clarify, more plain looking than ugly but certainly different from the stereotypical female reporter. Interestingly, for me at least the more I’m exposed to her intellect and intuitive style, the more attractive she’s become.
Miles Davis (although musicians should perhaps be excluded altogether since it isn’t their mug that drives our interest)
Manuel Noreiga
I always said the ugliest person in music, is the one with the coolest name:
Janis Joplin was a nude model for a time (one of the pictures was reprinted in a recent biography). How ugly could people really have thought her?
Don’t know if you could call him “famous” exactly (he was semi-famous as a child in a commercial in the 70s), but…Mason Reese (as a child and an adult).
I just had to go back and look at the thread Anne Hathaway’s Eyes which, between 03-18-2009, 10:25 AM and 03-22-2009, 10:40 PM had 114 posts and many of them were of the variety we see in this thread. Maybe you’d like to check out some of them.
Phyllis Diller based her comedic personality on a lack of good looks.
The list descibes itself as:
And somehow Prince Charles is included??? He’s no beauty, but I don’t think that being firstborn son of the reigning queen means he “made it big.” His high-profile occupation (such as it is) was handed to him at birth (and presumably he was cute then) and there’s no way to take it away from him against his will.
Musical talent goes a long way toward counteracting the anti-fame effects of homeliness. I’m thinking especially of Mick Jagger and Carly Simon.
I would agree that some of the names on that list are suspect. Besides, any list that doesn’t include Vincent Schiavelli and his 'lovely" bride Allyce Beasley (just like her mother, she was never “comfortable with her beauty”) isn’t worth the ugly keyboard it was typed on. I always like to mention how for the longest time I thought the horrifying Zelda in “Pet Sematary” was played by Amanda Plummer with a minimum of makeup.
Why do people include Bea Arthur? She was an older and not necessarily gorgeous older woman, but I never saw her as ugly. I mean, Betty White is old and no longer fits the young/hot ideal, but people don’t go around saying she’s ugly.
He is probably not famous anymore, but Don Mossi was a baseball player in the 50s and 60s. Bill James described him this way:
Brezhnev was actually one of the people I was thinking of as being remembered as ugly simply because a lot of people (in the US anyways) only remember him in his declining years (and from the Seinfeld bit). He was fairly handsome into middle age, but was an alcoholic and then had several strokes in the last decade of his life.
Susan Boyle
Bill Gates
I think Billy West has the proverbial “face for radio.”
Unless I missed them, I didn’t see any athletes on the list. There are professional athletes who are famous for something other than good looks, though no one in particular springs to mind at the moment.