"Mommy, isn't he just *dreamy*?"

I was 10 when I fell for Mark Lester, the kid who played Oliver in the movie “Oliver”. I bet Orlando Bloom looked like him when he was a boy. A couple years later I moved on to Donny Osmond.

I was all about Han Solo. I guess I just liked the bad boy.

Mine was Fonzie, back when I was around 5. I still have the teeny-tiny t-shirt my mom got me; the Fonz is giving two thumbs up and above his head it says, “Aaaay!”

My daughter had a crush on Zack and Cody. She said she wanted to marry one of them and she didn’t care which. I should probably have bought her a little t-shirt too, now that I think about it.

For some reason my claim fails to impress people.

No mention of Chad Everett, Dr Joe Gannon, of Medical Center? I’m shocked!

The Professor, from Gilligan’s Island. My tastes haven’t changed much. :smiley:

I went from Michael Jackson (from the Off the Wall era) to Pierce Brosnan (as Remington Steele) to George Michael (I was about 13 by then).

I also vaguely recall, when I was about 10 maybe, deciding that I would marry Prince Edward (I think I really just wanted a fairytale wedding like Princess Diana)

Somewhere, I have a very well-reasoned, seriously thought-out written debate between myself and my college roommate on the Han vs. Luke dilemma. We fought about it for years.

Then she went and fell in love with a sweet, adorable farm boy and conceded that I was right all along. :slight_smile:

Heh. I’m about his age, and my mom tells me that when the movie came out, she was barraged by strangers who came up to her and said, "Your son looks just like that boy in Oliver!" I don’t remember it myself.

Ah shit, I meant Maynard. And Kalhoun honey, you are on! :smiley:

Michael Jackson, Prince Eric (of Little Mermaid fame), George Michael, and Donnie freakin’ Wahlberg all happened to me, but damned if I remember in what order.

I do remember that Donnie Wahlberg totally eclipsed any love I might have had or had since for any celebrity. I had shirts with him on 'em, magazine cut-outs, pillows, blankets, sneakers, and needless to say the barbie doll, to which I clung furiously. I seriously thought, at the ripe age of maybe six, that if he just met me, he’d see we were just perfect for each other and he’d wait for me to grow up and marry me as soon as I was old enough.

…oh yeah, it’s still there. Looking at those old pics, god, I don’t even care how much of a douche he was, UNF.

Genie… Something about that getup got me everytime.

I had a man crush on that guy until I learned that my beloved Sgt Lipton was in fact a new kid on the block… :frowning:

The borg queen. I was about ten or so.

So How You doin? :wink:

Married, and fine, thanks. :wink:

Here’s Lester today: This is London Magazine

I don’t think I look much like him anymore (that’s me on the left, in the red sweater): http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3197/2518994106_8a713a0a8f.jpg?v=0

Marlon Brando in Streetcar Named Desire. No, I didn’t realize it was a rape scene. :o

I was really into the kid who played Atreyu
Thus began my longing for dark-eyed and dark-haired men. in The Neverending Story. Plus, when I saw that movie, he was an older boy so he seemed super-hot!
I think it went from him right to Joey McIntyre from the New Kids. Everyone my age had a thing for a New Kid.

Phyllis Coates, the earlier and brunet Lois Lane from the 50s Superman series. Why Superman did not, five minutes after meeting her, fly to the nearest coal mine and return with diamonds for her I did not understand. She was both hotter and less annoying than her predecessor/successor, Noel Neill. (Predecessor/successor because Neill played Lois in serials before Coates and then took over the role when the TV producers decided Coates was so hot no one would believe Superman could resist her charms indefinitely.)

Also the first Jane from Johnny Weissmuller Tarzan movies. It was NOT hard to understand how she tamed the lord of the jungle.

I guess mine would be Kelly from Saved by the Bell.

Either you’ve posted a picture of yourself before and I’ve just forgotten … or I’m amazingly prescient, but this is pretty much how I picture that you look! Which never happens. “Internet people” rarely look like we picture them!

Except for me. Why yes, I am stunningly beautiful!) :rolleyes: :stuck_out_tongue: