As far as I can recall there is only one celebrity I have ever seen who made me think, “gee I’d like to go out with her.” When I had the thought I was genuinely surprised, usually I just see celebrities as celebrities - entertainment, of varying degrees.
Years ago I saw Rachel Weisz being interviewed and it was really easy to forget that she was a celebrity. She came across as just some stranger, some really gorgeous stranger but she didn’t treat the interviewer in the usual “look at me” manner, she actually engaged in the process and hardly looked at the camera. And she just looked like she was having so much fun…and there is nothing sexier than people who look like they are enjoying themselves rather than “working”.
But, yeah if she played her cards right she could get me to go out with her at least once.
Some how I think Ms. Connelly will have multiple appearances in this thread.
I noticed her being cute in that first Muppet movie she was in. But it was Dennis Hopper’s The Hot Spot that cemented it. And even before the famous, sudden, very first topless shot. Before that, when she’s swimming with Miami Vice boy, and she slowly walks out of the water in that black bikini, with that look on her face…
I used to turn on Samantha Brown’s show Great Hotels as kind of background noise every morning as I got ready for work. No real reason, except for the pretty female doing the hosting. But after a while I found myself looking forward to the show. I liked her dumb jokes and her writing style (plus she looks great in a bikini). But what did it for me were the little unscripted bits, the parts where her genuine personality comes through. And I fell.
If I ever got the chance, I’d ask her out in a heartbeat, husband be damned.
I’d never paid attention to her before, actually thought she was a not-terribly-great actress, but didn’t suck, either, and her movies were successful, if not blow-your-hair-back great. Just another celebrity–whatever.
Then saw Premonition last spring, and the way she looked, with the long, curl-ish hair, taking care of her daughters without her husband…she looked, acted, and sounded completely like a single mom I dated last year I had really cared about. I thought I was over the girl, but seeing that movie made me feel like I’d lost her all over again, and brought all the pain back for about two weeks. In that time, I also became obsessed with Sandra Bullock and gorged myself on every movie of hers I could find. My favorite has become Practical Magic: I either want to kill Aidan Quinn, or be him.
I KNOW she’s not that girl from last year–I was able to get over that–but I still can’t get over Sandra. I’d probably not like her if I met her, but I can hold on to my fantasies that she really is the sweet, beautiful, sometimes clutzy, down to earth girl she is in her movies, right?
In the film Point of No Return, Bridget Fonda eats ravioli with a very very lucky Dermot Mulroney.
And Grace Kelly as Lisa Carol Fremont in Rear Window.
Michelle Pfeiffer and I have a longstanding relationship of which she’s unaware since Grease 2 (1982), which I watched on HBO or Cinemax a lot (solely on account of Ms. Pfeiffer, mind you).
What Exit’s remarks about Audrey Hepburn made me think of my out-of-time crush on the late Capucine, who I saw in *North to Alaska * (1960) about five years ago and is absolutely one of the most strikingly beautiful women I’ve ever seen. Here’s a still from The Pink Panther on Wikipedia.
ETA: Oh, and count me in on Jennifer Connelly as well – she was in the video for Roy Orbison’s I Drove All Night in 1992. Yowza.
Same universe, different person. My newest, biggest celebrity crush is John Barrowman. I know EXACTLY what triggered that one…the video I talk about in this LJ entry. The recent Torchwood thread led me to it, and there are several other really very good YouTube links in that thread for Barrowman as well.
Mrs. Cerowyn, known to much of the world as Halle Berry, had a small part in The Last Boy Scout, an otherwise forgettable Bruce Willis/Damon Wayans vehicle. She’s an older woman (by two months) true, but still smokin’ hot.
Oh, god, every crush I ever have is my biggest one yet.
I think the most obsessive one I ever had was on Donnie Wahlberg of New Kids on the Block. I only had to see him in torn-up jeans once and I was done, gone, over the freaking moon. Had a doll of him that I carried around everywhere. Was convinced that if I were his age and we met, I’d be the girl of his dreams. How heartbreaking for me when he began to go bald. ;_;
My most pervasive one has been Natalie Portman. I already knew I liked her “that way” when the preview shots for Closer came out (oh, lord, the pink wig…), but when I saw her for the first time with long hair, with that slow-motion confidence, at the end of Closer, I think I stopped breathing. She’s literally breathtaking.
My most recent one is Olivia Wilde. Her beauty was a given, as soon as I saw her on House, but I could have overlooked her if she hadn’t quirked one of those marvelous eyebrows and spoken. Just… I don’t know why, but the particular way in which words leave her mouth and her voice tickles my ear… I liquify.
