# What famously "good looking' people do you not like the looks of? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 1, 2009, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975 "2009-08-01T14:36:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/161 "2009-08-04T20:40:11Z")
Apparently there’s no stopping the invocation of Sarah Jessica Parker, even though she is not “famously ‘good looking.’” Neither is Owen Wilson, or the bulk of his work would probably not be in goofy comedies or quirky indies. I’m surprised no one has mentioned Danny De Vito and Rhea Perlman yet. ---
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/162 "2009-08-04T21:26:39Z")
You know, I really don’t get why people think Danny DeVito is so good looking. To me, he seems kind of short and fat and bald. Also, his wife is not as hot as everybody says either. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/163 "2009-08-04T21:37:35Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > Ummm, _what?_ That’s roughly what I look like with my shirt off and I can do about 70 pushups, and bench press 30lbs more than my bodyweight. I’d love to see your mighty torso that is so superhuman it makes you think Eastwood looks “horrible” in that picture. Agreed. I only ever knew the the Wood as an older, persnickety gentleman, great fun for telling people to get off his lawn and so forth. But he was FINE. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/164 "2009-08-04T21:42:40Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > Oh, I was just thinking today about how scary-looking that woman is! She’s GOT eyebrows…very faint…but I think there is a lot of makeup going on there! Very pale, pasty make-up. Her whole demeanor and voice and every thing is so darned annoying…and she’s really creepy-looking! Took seeing the ad about three times before I could even figuring out what she was talking about. She on my NOT attractive list, sorry. For a while there, I strongly suspected that she was actually a CGI creation. There’s something very strange about her. Someone mentioned the Uncanny Valley already. She definitely tips a bit over that line for me. ---
**Author:** ![Freudian\_Slit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@Freudian\_Slit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freudian_Slit)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/165 "2009-08-04T21:44:29Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > Oh, I was just thinking today about how scary-looking that woman is! She’s GOT eyebrows…very faint…but I think there is a lot of makeup going on there! Very pale, pasty make-up. Her whole demeanor and voice and every thing is so darned annoying…and she’s really creepy-looking! Took seeing the ad about three times before I could even figuring out what she was talking about. She on my NOT attractive list, sorry. Is that a real woman? I can’t tell. I was reading an article about it, and it was hard to tell. ETA: **Ogre** , so she is real? you’re right…that’s a very uncanny valley look. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/166 "2009-08-04T21:56:28Z")
> [@Freudian\_Slit](#): > > Is that a real woman? I can’t tell. I was reading an article about it, and it was hard to tell. > > ETA: **Ogre** , so she is real? you’re right…that’s a very uncanny valley look. I assume so, in the absence of any contrary evidence. I really wouldn’t be surprised to find out she’s actually a very well-rendered CGI. ---
**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:** [August 4, 2009, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/167 "2009-08-04T23:01:27Z")
> [@TWDuke](#): > > Apparently there’s no stopping the invocation of Sarah Jessica Parker, even though she is not “famously ‘good looking.’” She is best known for being the star of a show about “sexy single women in New York”. If that’s not being “famously good looking”, I don’t know what is. Trouble is, she looks like a foot. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/168 "2009-08-04T23:40:36Z")
> [@lshaw](#): > > Again, call me crazy, but I don’t find Daniel Craig that good looking. I wouldn’t give him a second glance if I passed him on the street. That is sort of what I like about him, the boy next door look … I have in the past dated seriously good looking guys, and they had egos that just did not work. I can understand having a guys attention wander to a pretty girl, but when it wanders to mirrors, I freaking give up. Daniel Craig has that sort of ‘happy hanging out with a beer’ comfy look. Not too handsome to be egotesticular, secure enough to dress comfortably and hang out. I don’t get the impression he would be doing the hard press to get a woman into bed, but if it happened it would be cool. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/169 "2009-08-04T23:43:15Z")
> [@Other\_Dreams](#): > > **Mark Walhberg** for me - his forehead is creased with lines, his nose a splotch on an otherwise beautiful universe, and his stature can not be appreciated from even those rising from the grave. > > A mild opinion, I’m sure… > > ~S.P.I.~ meh. He had a killer body when younger but he really leaves me a bit cold. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 6:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/170 "2009-08-05T06:28:23Z")
> [@VinylTurnip](#): > > Trudging through this bog of aspersions, I cannot help but picture the last group photo I saw from a Dopefest. Heh, I think Penelope Cruz is rat-faced but if I was offered a chance to switch bodies with her then you could call me Penny. She’s Hollywood ugly, not ordinary-folk ugly (I’m one of those too, but I’ll let you guess which one). ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/171 "2009-08-05T06:49:42Z")
I’ll be a lone voice out in the cold here and say I think Sarah Jessica Parker is not bad-looking at all. Absolutely not ugly. In fact I think she has beautiful features, but I wouldn’t call the whole package beautiful because her voice annoys me and I think she’s done quite a bit of damage to her skin by smoking. [This](http://inyourface.freedomblogging.com/files/2008/05/sarah-jessica-parker-051508-032565.jpg) is older than a 44 year old woman should look (and who knows how old that picture is), but anyone saying that [this](http://celebrityandworld.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/sarah-jessica-parker.jpg) isn’t an above-average looking woman is fooling themselves. And I respect her for not getting a nosejob. ---
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/172 "2009-08-05T22:27:23Z")
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**Author:** ![Lamia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Lamia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lamia)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/173 "2009-08-05T22:40:09Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > She is best known for being the star of a show about “sexy single women in New York”. If that’s not being “famously good looking”, I don’t know what is. I guess you don’t know what is, then. The Carrie character was “sexy” in the sense that she liked to have sex, but even on the show she was not portrayed as being especially good looking. Carrie was depicted as being _stylish_, not beautiful, not even within her own circle of friends. Charlotte and Samantha were both considered better looking. ---
**Author:** ![Rubystreak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Rubystreak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rubystreak)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/174 "2009-08-05T22:40:19Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > She is best known for being the star of a show about “sexy single women in New York”. If that’s not being “famously good looking”, I don’t know what is. > > Trouble is, she looks like a foot. There is this phenomenon I call ugly/sexy. My go-to examples are Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. They are not handsome at all, and I don’t think they ever were, but they do have sex appeal. Obviously. Sarah Jessica Parker may just be the woman version of this. She does have an amazing body, and her face, while not beautiful, is certainly distinctive. She’s a clothes horse and a style icon, but I don’t think I’d ever call her beautiful. But if Mick Jagger can be sexy, I don’t see why SJP can’t be as well. I personally like the fact that she never had plastic surgery to fix her nose or remove her mole, yet still manages to be on the covers of magazines. ---
**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:** [August 5, 2009, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/175 "2009-08-05T22:47:12Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > I guess you don’t know what is, then. The Carrie character was “sexy” in the sense that she liked to have sex, but even on the show she was not portrayed as being especially good looking. Carrie was depicted as being _stylish_, not beautiful, not even within her own circle of friends. Charlotte and Samantha were both considered better looking. People have linked to articles in this very thread that refer to SJP as “sexy” and “good looking”. Please tell me how that makes me the crazy one? ---
**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/176 "2009-08-05T22:50:11Z")
> [@Cisco](#): > > She only looks good to me in the R. I think the L is way hotter. She didn’t age well, though. I’ll say Gillian Anderson and Christina Ricci. ---
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/177 "2009-08-05T22:50:29Z")
> [@Rubystreak](#): > > I personally like the fact that she never had plastic surgery to fix her nose or remove her mole, yet still manages to be on the covers of magazines. Ze mole, she iz no more. She had that taken off last year. Odd after so long. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/178 "2009-08-05T22:55:02Z")
> [@Justin\_Bailey](#): > > People have linked to articles in this very thread that refer to SJP as “sexy” and “good looking”. Please tell me how that makes me the crazy one? Dude, you’re being accused of not knowing shit about _Sex and the City._ Run with it ;). ---
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/179 "2009-08-05T23:06:10Z")
I agree about Eric’s grilfriend in _Entourage_, she looks like a Bratz doll. And I will make enemies, but Katie Holmes, at any time of her career. She has an effed up mouth. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2009, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-famously-good-looking-people-do-you-not-like-the-looks-of/504975/180 "2009-08-05T23:09:14Z")
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