carlb I know what you mean. Maybe it’s the nose?
I remember Valerie Mahaffey as “Eve” to Adam Arkin’s “Adam” on Northern Exposure. She was also an accountant on an episode of Seinfeld where she went nuts in the middle of doing Jerry’s taxes after George broke up with her. Yeah, for a while in the 90s she was everywhere.
carlb, I was going to mention Judy Greer*, but she’s popping up everywhere lately and I wasn’t sure that made her uncommon enough. But always remember: YOU’RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR!
*Just adorable; she’s got that best-friend’s-kid-sister-who’s-gonna-be-really-hot-in-a-few-years vibe going on.
I hate to sound like an idiot, but what the hell is an “open matte version”? I don’t think I’ve ever seen that written on a DVD case.
But then, I seldom, if ever, read the small print.
And ditto on Schaal, and especially on Judy Greer, who I want to marry and have her children.
(Yeah, I’m a guy. What of it?)
When you are filming a movie, sometimes you use a film stock that is closer to the 4:3 aspect ratio of television than the widescreen ratio of movies. You then mask off the top and bottom of the frames to show it in the theater.
When you are converting a widescreen movie to 4:3 for (old fashioned) television viewing, one way to do that is to chop the sides off the wide frame and move the " camera" around to pick the parts if the wide frame to keep. That is called “pan and scan.” But if the movie is filmed on a squarer stock that is later covered at the top and bottom to make it wide, then you can remove that matting instead of doing a pan and scan. The problem with that method is that scenes may include elements that were never intended to be seen, such as boom mikes hanging overhead. But if you are looking for the nudity, well, you get a lit more of that than the theatrical version, too. Poison Ivy 3 (and Poison Ivy 2 and Embrace of the Vampire with Alissa Milano) are examples of movies with widescreen and open matte in the same DVD with bonus nudity in the open matte areas. (IIRC, the VHS version of Showgirls has that advantage over the DVD version, which IIRC is widescreen only.)
Ellen Page is mine , and yes I know she’s gay. (I’m a guy)
I’m quite familiar with pan and scan, but had never heard of open matte. Thanks!
You cansee lots of comparisons on google. Here is a good page showing examples of things not meant to be seen. Here is another example of something that wasn’t supposed to be seen in the theatrical release, but you don’t mind so much.
Most of my crushes are unusual. Back when Drew Carey had his sitcom I had a stupid crazy crush on him, then it was Jorge Garcia (Hurley on Lost), and now it’s my beloved Brienne of Tarth, Gwendoline Christie.
I guess I just like people bigger than me. 
For a long time, I had the hots for Miss Piggy. I can’t be the only one, can I?
Rebecca Pidgeon. I fell head over heels for her character in State and Main. “Go you huskies!”
Kate Micucci makes me positively giddy
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Is Mariska Hargitay an unusual crush? Because she is my secret TV crush.
Claudia Winkleman.
I think a lot of people find her annoying, but I adore her.
For precisely the reasons everyone complains about her, Anne Hathaway. She’s sweet to the point it sounds insincere, which seems to spark incandescent fury in some quarters. But I genuinely believe its actually sincere. Because no one would be so odd as to think that deliberately being too sweet would win friends.
That makes perfect sense to no one but me.
Also, Bugs Bunny when he dresses as a girl.
…Hang on, I’m sure there’s some competition on that one…
Cybill Shepherd.
Natasha Lyonne. Yummy!
Actually, before the drugs got to her I thought Winehouse was quite sexy.
Thirded on Kristen Schaal, and I’ll add
Maggie Gyllenhaal (“Secretary” has a lot to do with that).
Illeana Douglas
My wife, Dana Delany.
I had a celeb crush on Victoria Coren for a while because smart funny women really do it for me (which I suppose is why I married one). But she went and married someone far smarter and funnier than me.
And then I moved on to Josie Lawrence for the same reason (no, not Jennifer Lawrence); she remains one of the best comedy improv performers in the world.
I still love Lawrence’s voice - a good voice will always do it for me, and I used to have a voice-crush on **Ivy Austin **(regular contributor to A Prairie Home Companion) even though I didn’t know what she looked like (which, it turns out, is lovely).
Oh, and one more: Catherine Keener, for no apparent reason.
I’m finding myself obsessed with Bill Skarsgard. The weird thing isn’t that I’m old enough to be his mother. It’s that I find him kind of sexy in makeup :o
