# What's the status of your childhood/teenage celebrity crush(es)? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 11, 2010, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607 "2010-02-11T22:09:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![GoodOmens](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/d26b3c/32.png) [@GoodOmens](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GoodOmens)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/61 "2010-02-12T15:11:02Z")
Cindy Crawford and Elle McPherson…well, hell, nothing else needs be said about them. But I will anyway. The only explanation is that they’re aliens or something, neither one looks like they’ve aged. I mean, not to be crude or anything, but have you seen Cindy’s ass lately? Perfection. Tori Amos: Though I’d prefer Under the Pink-era, still super fine. Danica Mckellar: I mean, who didn’t have a crush on Winnie Cooper? And she’s gotten better over time. Gorgeous and super smart. In the same vein, Natalie Portman has only gotten more beautiful. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/62 "2010-02-12T15:45:00Z")
Barry Manilow and Gene Wilder. Both looking pretty shriveled these days, but if either of them is interested in having a thirty-nine year old lady hold his hand and gaze at him adoringly, I’m up for it. ---
**Author:** ![TheFaerie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c57346/32.png) [@TheFaerie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheFaerie)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 9:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/63 "2010-02-12T21:22:13Z")
John Stamos - still super-smokin hot I’m 42 ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/64 "2010-02-12T21:24:14Z")
David Cassidy was doing some act at the casino last night. I wonder what kind of crowd he got on a weeknight, in February, in an Upstate NY winter. I think he aged pretty well! ---
**Author:** ![YoudNeverGuess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/a587f6/32.png) [@YoudNeverGuess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YoudNeverGuess)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/65 "2010-02-12T21:33:53Z")
> [@Audrey\_Levins](#): > > Other than that, I had crushes on old-school movie stars way before my time, like Paul Newman, and musicians like Paul McCartney, so they don’t really apply cuz they were already pretty damn past their prime by the time I crushed on them in their earlier incarnations. (I’m only 31, but I was an odd kid.) Me too (not Paul McCartney though - eww :p) Paul Newman was my only ever ‘true’ crush…sigh… And I’m only 34 so I already had a timewarp-crush going on. RIP. Harrison Ford - he’s too old now. Marlon Brando (as young man) but now I don’t agree with my younger self that much. I didn’t really do crushes though. At moment I’m liking looking at old pics of Bob Weir as a youngster. He’s aged well but all the same, I just need that time-machine. ---
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/66 "2010-02-12T21:41:41Z")
I was utterly smitten with [Jeremy Northam](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000562/) after seeing him in a BBC adaptation of the Barbara Vine novel"A Fatal Inversion" back in the very early 90s. He’s gone on to have a pretty impressive career, probably most famously co starring with Gwyneth Paltrow in the 1996 version of Emma. For some reason, it seems something about him must say ‘period drama’ to casting directors - the last thing I remember him being in was The Tudors, playing Sir Thomas More. He still looks utterly gorgeous 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2010, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/67 "2010-02-12T21:53:17Z")
Jodie Foster - _Bugsy Malone_ and _Candleshoe_ - was my first kid crush. I was 7 when _Bugsy_ came out. She’s still great, and _Contact_ remains one of my favourite films. Debbie Harry - now this was an altogether different sort of crush. Debbie is still cool as fuck. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/68 "2010-02-13T01:00:41Z")
David Cassidy - in The Patridge Family days. Bobby Sherman Henry Winkler - in The Happy Days days. All now embarassing to admit. ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/69 "2010-02-13T01:22:00Z")
> [@GoodOmens](#): > > Danica Mckellar: I mean, who didn’t have a crush on Winnie Cooper? And she’s gotten better over time. Gorgeous and super smart. This. This so much. ---
**Author:** ![MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@MPB\_in\_Salt\_Lake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MPB_in_Salt_Lake)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/70 "2010-02-13T01:45:11Z")
> [@YoudNeverGuess](#): > > At moment I’m liking looking at old pics of Bob Weir as a youngster. He’s aged well but all the same, I just need that time-machine. Bob Weir didn’t age AT ALL from 1975-1995, but after ol’ Garcia passed on, man he really showed the effects from 30 years spent on the road… Still, I always (as a straight guy) thought Bobby Weir was one of the best looking male rock stars around. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/71 "2010-02-13T02:28:15Z")
Jimmy Page. When I was 15 I would have married him in a flat second if he’d showed up in town. (Granted, it wasn’t legal for 15 years olds to get married in Kentucky back then, but I don’t think Ol’ Pagey would have cared.) Later there was Johnny Rotten, although I don’t know if I was in love with him or merely fascinated that a human being like that actually existed. For the record, I am steadily approaching the half century mark. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/72 "2010-02-13T02:33:47Z")
And since I seem to have missed the edit window, both of my teenage crushes appear to still be alive. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/73 "2010-02-13T17:15:08Z")
> [@kath94](#): > > David Cassidy - in The Patridge Family days. > Bobby Sherman > Henry Winkler - in The Happy Days days. > > All now embarassing to admit. Why? We’re supposed to crush on the ‘teen’ (or older) idols they put out there! Grandma had Frank Sinatra and Eddie Fisher. _I_ had David Cassidy! Daughters today will have the Jonas Brothers or Robert Pattinson. It’s all good! ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [February 13, 2010, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/74 "2010-02-13T17:21:12Z")
Yvonne Craig, aka TV’s Batgirl and a green alien from Star Trek, is still pretty spry. [youtube link](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVOMterHNQQ) ---
**Author:** ![dropzone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dropzone/32/7515_2.png) [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/75 "2010-02-14T03:15:37Z")
Julie Newmar, the greatest and hottest [Cat Woman,](http://www.nationalenquirer.com/images/ne/209534/58643.jpg) [looks good at 77.](http://broadwayworld.com/people/headshot.php?personid=22108) Like Yvonne Craig (73) she’s a dancer, and dancers keep forever. ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/76 "2010-02-14T04:25:11Z")
> [@AuntiePam](#): > > [ > A crush from my 30’s is still alive and working though – Michael Parks, from _Then Came Bronson_. The guy was smoldering hot. Ooh, yeah, I forgot about him. Wow! ---
**Author:** ![ataraxy22](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ataraxy22/32/307_2.png) [@ataraxy22](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ataraxy22)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 5:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/77 "2010-02-14T05:52:54Z")
I liked Trini from _3-2-1 Contact_ when I was a little kid. Apparently I wasn’t [the only one](http://www.madeofglass.com/tripp/2008/02/07/crushes-3-2-1-contact-and-ginny-ortiz/). It seems she didn’t continue in an acting career and has mostly faded from the public spotlight. ---
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 6:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/78 "2010-02-14T06:24:12Z")
Baryshnikov. [Then](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TSYUChGZ9I&feature=related) , [In\_between](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--LbFRO8SQQ) , and [More\_Recently](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBFz8b1kWS8&feature=fvw) Still my only serious celebrity crush. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 14, 2010, 7:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/79 "2010-02-14T07:45:43Z")
> [@ataraxy22](#): > > I liked Trini from _3-2-1 Contact_ when I was a little kid. [Genevieve Ortiz](http://theactorsadvantage.com/About%20Genevieve.html) ---
**Author:** ![Necros](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/necros/32/11086_2.png) [@Necros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Necros)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2010, 8:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607/80 "2010-02-15T20:16:11Z")
Christina Ricci is still great. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-status-of-your-childhood-teenage-celebrity-crush-es/528607.md?page=5)