# I think I'm weird because I think \_\_\_ is hot. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 9, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884 "2012-01-09T03:01:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![UntouchedTakeaway](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d78d45/32.png) [@UntouchedTakeaway](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UntouchedTakeaway)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/1 "2012-01-09T03:01:45Z")
[Charles Bickford](https://www.google.com/search?q=charles+bickford&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=685&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=u1cKT7DQOobo0QGwiqnAAg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CAwQ_AUoAQ) [Walter Huston](https://www.google.com/search?q=charles+bickford&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=685&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=u1cKT7DQOobo0QGwiqnAAg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CAwQ_AUoAQ#hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=walter+huston+dodsworth&pbx=1&oq=walter+huston+dodsworth&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=97028l101327l0l101526l23l14l0l1l0l0l1096l2531l2-1.2.1.7-1l5l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=5731e14b476f17c8&biw=1280&bih=685) - specifically in “Dodsworth” I’m a vintage movie fan, so my crushes on Richard Widmark and [Steve Cochran](https://www.google.com/search?q=charles+bickford&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=685&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=u1cKT7DQOobo0QGwiqnAAg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CAwQ_AUoAQ#hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=steve+cochran&oq=steve+cochran&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2108l2108l2l2400l1l1l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=5731e14b476f17c8&biw=1280&bih=685) are to be expected, but I’m vaguely creeping myself out with the Charles Bickford thing. UT ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/2 "2012-01-09T04:15:25Z")
> [@UntouchedTakeaway](#): > > [Charles Bickford](https://www.google.com/search?q=charles+bickford&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=685&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=u1cKT7DQOobo0QGwiqnAAg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CAwQ_AUoAQ) > > [Walter Huston](https://www.google.com/search?q=charles+bickford&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=685&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=u1cKT7DQOobo0QGwiqnAAg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CAwQ_AUoAQ#hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=walter+huston+dodsworth&pbx=1&oq=walter+huston+dodsworth&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=97028l101327l0l101526l23l14l0l1l0l0l1096l2531l2-1.2.1.7-1l5l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=5731e14b476f17c8&biw=1280&bih=685) - specifically in “Dodsworth” > > I’m a vintage movie fan, so my crushes on Richard Widmark and [Steve Cochran](https://www.google.com/search?q=charles+bickford&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=685&prmd=imvnso&source=lnms&tbm=isch&ei=u1cKT7DQOobo0QGwiqnAAg&sa=X&oi=mode_link&ct=mode&cd=2&ved=0CAwQ_AUoAQ#hl=en&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=steve+cochran&oq=steve+cochran&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&gs_sm=e&gs_upl=2108l2108l2l2400l1l1l0l0l0l0l0l0ll0l0&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&fp=5731e14b476f17c8&biw=1280&bih=685) are to be expected, but I’m vaguely creeping myself out with the Charles Bickford thing. > > UT Well, they’re no [Paul Douglas](http://www.whosdatedwho.com/tpx_2770180/life-magazine-united-states-12-march-1951/). ---
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/3 "2012-01-09T04:24:52Z")
::Wanders in…wanders out:: Not opening that can of worms again. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/4 "2012-01-09T05:13:59Z")
Richard Widmark? As in “totally creepy” Richard Widmark? I’ve been through a lot of these threads but this may be the first one in which someone found him anything but totally creepy. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 5:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/5 "2012-01-09T05:34:47Z")
> [@voguevixen](#): > > ::Wanders in…wanders out:: Not opening that can of worms again. You realize that posting in this thread with this reply has just opened you up to a bunch of Bieber Fever jokes right? ---
**Author:** ![LVBoPeep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/858c86/32.png) [@LVBoPeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LVBoPeep)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 6:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/6 "2012-01-09T06:19:26Z")
Claude Rains in _Notorious_. I don’t know, he’s just an evil kind of old sexy. ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/7 "2012-01-09T06:37:54Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > You realize that posting in this thread with this reply has just opened you up to a bunch of Bieber Fever jokes right? I actually made an effort (obvious jokes not being something I’m known to avoid) to avoid that. ---
**Author:** ![installLSC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/54ee81/32.png) [@installLSC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/installLSC)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/8 "2012-01-09T06:51:11Z")
Moving on to the seventies, even though she was about ten thousand times my age as a kid I did always have a thing for [Betty Garrett](http://l.yimg.com/l/im_siggXfIn_2nhHFkpb8j5KYVjDg---y626/tv/us/img/site/80/72/0000078072_20110610173218.jpg), aka Laverne and Shirley’s landlady. And when every teenage boy in America was lusting after Valerie Bertenelli on “One Day At A Time” I was focusing on the woman who played her mom, [Bonnie Franklin.](http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photopost/data/722/bf2.JPG) Hell I thought Mackenzie Phillips looked better than Valerie. I could have listed my crushes on Maggie Gyllenhaal or Adele Adkins, but that’s not me being weird, it’s the rest of the world being weird:). ---
**Author:** ![BeaMyra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@BeaMyra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeaMyra)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 11:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/9 "2012-01-09T11:25:26Z")
Bill Nye the science guy > **[Official Website of Bill Nye The Science Guy](https://www.billnye.com/)** > > The official website of Bill Nye The Science Guy featuring books, shows, appearances, episode guides, and home demos. I love Brian Greene > **[Brian Greene](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Greene)** > > Brian Randolph Greene (born February 9, 1962) is an American theoretical physicist and mathematician. Greene was a physics professor at Cornell University from 1990–1995, and has been a professor at Columbia University since 1996 and chairman of the World Science Festival since co-founding it in 2008. Greene has worked on mirror symmetry, relating two different Calabi–Yau manifolds (concretely relating the conifold to one of its orbifolds). He also described the flop transition, a mild for... Notice a pattern? I admire Stephen Hawkins, but I don’t find him hot LOL ---
**Author:** ![DianaG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/7ab992/32.png) [@DianaG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DianaG)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 12:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/10 "2012-01-09T12:09:34Z")
Five years ago I’d have said Peter Dinklage, but it appears that the world has caught up with me. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/11 "2012-01-09T13:57:21Z")
I have a mad crush on \*\*Brian Donlevy \*\*and **Lyle Talbot** , so I’m right with you, there. ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/12 "2012-01-09T14:37:24Z")
I can’t say Brian Donlevy because he was a ringer for my best friend’s late father, and that would be creepy. So let’s talk about Dick Powell. ---
**Author:** ![well\_he\_s\_back](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3ab097/32.png) [@well\_he\_s\_back](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/well_he_s_back)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/13 "2012-01-09T14:40:44Z")
can’t look up his name right now, but the actor who plays Rumplestiltskin on ABC show “Once Upon A Time”. Weirdly attractive to me, for sure. ---
**Author:** ![charmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/53a042/32.png) [@charmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/charmstr)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 5:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/14 "2012-01-09T17:02:13Z")
> [@well\_he\_s\_back](#): > > can’t look up his name right now, but the actor who plays Rumplestiltskin on ABC show “Once Upon A Time”. Weirdly attractive to me, for sure. Robert Carmichael? Back when he was starring in Hamish Macbeth (mid 90s), my wife would have left me for him in a hot second. Most of our friends of the female hetero and male homo variety agreed with her. (By which I mean that they also found him hot, not that they would leave me for him… although I suspect they probably would have. Bastards.) ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 5:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/15 "2012-01-09T17:06:35Z")
> [@charmstr](#): > > Robert Carmichael? Back when he was starring in Hamish Macbeth (mid 90s), my wife would have left me for him in a hot second. [Robert Carlyle](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001015/), but yup, that’s him. ---
**Author:** ![charmstr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/53a042/32.png) [@charmstr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/charmstr)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/16 "2012-01-09T18:12:20Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > [Robert Carlyle](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001015/), but yup, that’s him. Oops. I knew that. ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/17 "2012-01-09T18:54:46Z")
Jane Lynch. ---
**Author:** ![Azeotrope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/0ea827/32.png) [@Azeotrope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Azeotrope)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/18 "2012-01-09T19:37:14Z")
Grant Imahara from “Mythbusters” ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/19 "2012-01-09T19:51:07Z")
I choose to believe the rest of the world is weird because they _don’t_ find \_\_\_ hot. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2012, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884/20 "2012-01-09T20:01:44Z")
I think Grace Jones is hot in Conan the Barbarian. Yes, _that_ Grace Jones. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-think-im-weird-because-i-think-___-is-hot/608884.md?page=2)