# Strange celebrity crushes? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 2, 2003, 7:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279 "2003-02-02T07:46:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![superstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@superstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superstar)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/61 "2003-05-19T01:52:43Z")
The lead actress from Gilmore Girls… don’t know her name… and don’t really want to. It’s purely a perve-fest. She’s witty (or at least the lines that are written for her are…) tall, brunette, and stunning!! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/62 "2003-05-19T01:56:06Z")
In the early 1980’s, a jazz radio station here broadcasted OTR shows at night. I must have been the only preteen in the entire state at that time who was nursing an active crush on **Dennis Day**. I still think he’s pretty cute. ---
**Author:** ![superstar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f4b2a3/32.png) [@superstar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/superstar)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/63 "2003-05-19T01:58:21Z")
Sorry, just realised I was asked for a ‘STRANGE’ celebrity. Was it ‘strange’ that I didn’t even know the name of the person I would hop into bed with in a second??? Where are my morals and values? Anyway, That’s easy… Alan Alda! Only as his 'M_A_S\*H character. He definetly does it for me. And I’ve felt this way since I was 12. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/64 "2003-05-19T03:06:09Z")
My obvious crushes (narrowed down to a few, so we don’t have to be here all day): Jennifer Connelly Rose McGowan Dita Von Teese My not-so-obvious crushes: Janeane Garofalo Tina Fey Fran Drescher ---
**Author:** ![AwSnappity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a3d4f5/32.png) [@AwSnappity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AwSnappity)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/65 "2003-05-19T04:27:13Z")
I’ll see your **Jeff Corwin** and raise you a **Rufus Wainwright**. And I fully acknowledge that **Ben Stiller** looks exactly like **Mr. Peepers** , but he (BS) is still hot, whereas MP is not. **Steve Martin** looked pretty good in _Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid_. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2003, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/66 "2003-05-19T04:47:32Z")
Wow. And I was to start a thread on my strange obsessions. For odd crushes, no one can beat me. I like strange men. –[David Herman](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Herman,+David+(I)). You know, Michael Bolton from **Office Space**. –[Michael Hitchcock](http://us.imdb.com/Name?Hitchcock,+Michael+(I)). From the Christopher Guest mockumentaries. –[Robert Musgrave](http://rushmore.shootangle.com/academy/PHP/html/modules.php?set_albumName=album15&id=abu&op=modload&name=gallery3&file=index&include=view_photo.php) from **Bottle Rocket**. Yup. There’s more where that came from. Sure, I like normal guys too–John Cusack, Luke Wilson, Sean Biggerstaff (Oliver Wood from the Harry Potter flicks)–but I like to keep these ones secret. I’ll post more when I think of others. And I’m inexplicably attracted to Robyn Hitchcock on the cover of [Invisible Hitchcock](http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000033FM.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg). I don’t think he’s otherwise very attractive, I enjoy only his music. But wow. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 5:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/67 "2003-05-21T17:49:40Z")
Bump because I like this topic and want to add [Lou Barlow](http://mpetesch.free.fr/pics/lbarlow.jpg) of Sebadoh/Dinosaur Jr/Folk Implosion/Sentridoh fame. ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/68 "2003-05-21T18:00:29Z")
John Belushi Roger Waters Rob Schnyder and, the most recent addition, Frank Zappa. I would _so_ do Frank Zappa–if he wasn’t dead. ---
**Author:** ![Orange\_Skinner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Orange\_Skinner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orange_Skinner)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/69 "2003-05-21T18:02:06Z")
Dammit, I knew there was another one–Bradley Whitford, who plays Josh Lyman on _The West Wing_. I’d do him, too. ---
**Author:** ![Duke\_of\_Rat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ad7895/32.png) [@Duke\_of\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke_of_Rat)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/70 "2003-05-21T20:55:38Z")
Fairuza Balk…she is strange, but she’d work. ---
**Author:** ![buffalogal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@buffalogal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buffalogal)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 9:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/71 "2003-05-21T21:09:58Z")
I don’t know if this qualifies as a celebrity, but it certainly is strange: The guy from the Verizon commercials. “Can you hear me now?.. Good.” ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/72 "2003-05-21T21:13:11Z")
Holy crap, **buffalogal**! Me too! Everytime people complain about the “stupid Verizon commercials,” I get a little sad. ---
**Author:** ![buffalogal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ecccb3/32.png) [@buffalogal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buffalogal)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2003, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/73 "2003-05-21T22:06:12Z")
I’m shocked. I thought it was just me. It just goes to show you’re never alone. ---
**Author:** ![look\_ninjas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b2d939/32.png) [@look\_ninjas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/look_ninjas)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/74 "2003-05-22T00:40:53Z")
There’s already an Alan Rickman fan club here, but I just love him. It’s the accent. Patrick Stewart has a different sexy accent, that whole Royal Shakespeare thing. I’m not a Trekkie, but… ---
**Author:** ![Linty\_Fresh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Linty\_Fresh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Linty_Fresh)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/75 "2003-05-22T01:03:41Z")
Three strange ones: Helen Mirren: I can’t watch any of her movies anymore. She’s _beautiful_\*. I never thought much of her until **Hussy** , but after that, it was all over. Natalie Merchant: She’s more cute than beautiful, but I still just dig her. Although I kind of doubt she plays on my team these days. . . Angelina Jolie: I’m turned on by older women, not younger, but there’s just something about someone who’s so blatantly “Little Girl Lost” that just brings out the total sap in me. And maybe Jeanine Garafolo. And Vanessa Redgrave. ---
**Author:** ![Marley23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Marley23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marley23)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/76 "2003-05-22T01:24:50Z")
Janeane Garofalo. I’m taken, but you know she’d be fun to hang out with. Also Dame Judi Dench. It’s not really a sexual thing, though she was apparently quite the looker when she was young. She remains the perfect Shakespearean actress. ---
**Author:** ![green\_bladder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/73ab20/32.png) [@green\_bladder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/green_bladder)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/77 "2003-05-22T01:27:18Z")
My first big one was for \*\* Elle Macpherson, \*\* since then it’s been \*\*Elizabeth Hurley, Rachel Stevens \*\* to name a few. ---
**Author:** ![Poysyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Poysyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Poysyn)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/78 "2003-05-22T01:48:03Z")
John Malkovich - especially in Dangerous Liaisons- MMMmmMMMM Ed Harris - in full uniform in The Rock - YuuuUUUUUMMMMMMMY Christopher Meloni - Law and Order:SVU - How YOU doin? drool ---
**Author:** ![modro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/79 "2003-05-22T01:56:26Z")
I’ve had a few. My “weird” ones have all been older. Patrick Stewart, Sean Connery, And for a while, Charlton Heston, but only for his voice. Something about his voice… I’ve noticed that both Stewart and Connery have accents, so maybe that is what does it for me? Oh, and I would marry Judy Dench. I love her! Otherwise, I am generally not attracted to older people, I find the fact that I even found a few strikes me as odd, with me being 20. ---
**Author:** ![modro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@modro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/modro)\ **Post date:** [May 22, 2003, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279/80 "2003-05-22T01:59:00Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Archergal \* > **Sean Connery** can eat crackers in my bed anytime. He looks better now that he’s older, IMHO. I second you here, Connery young does absolutely nothing for me. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-celebrity-crushes/152279.md?page=5)