Kid: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mark McGrath
Teenager: David Lascher, all of the guys from 98 degrees except Justin
Now: Brock Lesnar, Vin Diesel
As a kid: Jeannie and Samantha were the hottest women in the word. Odd that they were both magical too.
As a teen: all of Charlie’s Angels.
As an adult: any number of MILF porn stars.
Kid: Ricky Schroeder, Mackenzie Astin.
Teen: Sting, Kurt Larson (of Information Society).
Adult: Hm. That guy who was Spock in the last Star Trek movie, David Tennant, and half the cast of the old Stargate.
Kid: Samantha Fox, Traci Lords (no, I hadn’t seen her pornos, but I did see her posters and such at poster shops), Lynda Carter
Teenager: Siouxsie Sioux (a few years past her prime at the time, but still hot…), Kat Bjellund, Winona Ryder, Traci Lords
Adult: Christina Hendricks, Charlize Theron, Jessica Biel, Franka Potente. Traci Lords finally left my list a while back. A number of legal-but-inappropriate crushes on various starlets and singers from time to time, like Emily Browning and Anna Popplewell, and even Lindsay Lohan around the Mean Girls era.
Kid: Bobby Sherman
Teen: Henry “The Fonz” Winkler
Adult: John Barrowman, David Tennant, Alan Rickman. Yes, I’m old. And I’ve got a thing for accents.
Kid - I’m with the OP on Haley Mills. (Both Parent Trap Haley Mills and Good Morning Miss Bliss (AKA Saved By the Bell Mark I) Haley Mills.) Also Candace Cameron.
Teenager…I must have had one or two, but hell if I can remember them.
Adult - Tomoko Kawase… I adore her so, so much. Beautiful, talented, and a geek…she’s got everything!
I forgot Mike Rowe as an adult.
Child- Maybe Donnie Osmond.
Teenager-John Travolta
Adult- Mark Harmon, (although I must admit Tom Seleck and Harrison Ford do give me twinges)
For the Lynda Carter admirers: A Gettysburg battlefield guide I know has given quite a few VIPs tours of the battlefield over the years. I asked him which celeb knew the Civil War best, and without hesitation he said Wonder Woman herself.
Jane Seymour. I first saw her in Live and Let Die when I was twelve. It’s thirty seven years later and I would still do her.
Well, when I was 13 or so, I compiled an alphabetical list of doable celebrities, from Kirstie Alley to Stephanie Zimbalist…
Kid: David Cassidy, Paul McCartney and or George Harrison
Teenager: Cat Stevens, always. Various assorted one week crushes.
Adult: Steve Perry! Seems like almost all the Aussie Imports are babes. And OMG Henry Cavill is beyond words:D
That’s it. It calling her. I don’t care if she is old now. A Harold and Maude type deal is still fine with me. I missed my other chance with Elizabeth Montgomery from Bewitched because she died and I don’t intend to lose the others.
Don’t recall any real crushes before puberty, but one which hit me right between the umm eyes was Nadia Comaneci (same age as me). Imagine my crushing disillusionment when I read an article after the 1976 Olympics talking about the doll she took everywhere with her.
Also Jodie Foster, Andrea McArdle (of Annie fame), and Valerie Bertinelli.
More recently, it’s been Zooey Deschanel, Kate Hudson, Alyson Hannigan, and the girl who played Chianna on Farscape-Gigi Edgley. Yeah, it’s the otherworldly ones which typically get me, with a side order of ditz.
kid: the big sister on Little House on the Prarrie. (she later lost her sight, but I didn’t care)
Teenager. Jodie Foster.
Now. Kristen Bell (Forgetting Sarah Marshal)… and Jodie Foster.
Kiss?
As a kid: YEEEECH! I remember that phase between figuring out that Elvis rocked and actually having an interest in anything remotely resembling romance; I’d be watching one of his movies and when it got to the kiss-the-girl scene I’d be saying “gross!” while my father laughed his ass off.
My first crush was Robert Urich as Jim Street in SWAT. I like the combination of dark hair with blue eyes and the character was very much my kind of guy. This crush got me in trouble with my female classmates, as we were all supposed to like TJ (because he was a blonde) or, if you were more into Bad Boys, Luca. You were not supposed to like serious, handsome, reliable hunks who wanted to go to college (why, yes, I liked both Urich and that character after I’d finished growing up, too, why do you ask?). That’s the day I figured out that being homosexual could not be a choice, because if I could have chosen to like TJ I would have but I seriously couldn’t stomach either his dumb ass or Luca’s philandering, so it didn’t make sense that anybody would choose to be attracted to something even more likely to meet with social revulsion.
I also got in trouble (but by then did not care) over pointing out, during WHAM!'s first year in business, that “the guy with all the acne” was actually a lot more handsome than the one with the droopy eyes. As soon as George Michael got rid of the acne, history got rewritten and he’d been the handsome one all along (yeah right).
Now. Hm… Nathan Fillion, Benicio del Toro, Javier Bardem. I tend to be attracted to guys in my age group, which I think is good.
Kid - Aunt Becky from Full House
Teenager - Natalie Portman
Now - Tina Fey (why didn’t anyone tell me that she played a stripper in Date Night? I WOULD have found the time to see it in theaters if I had that knowledge!)
Kid: Gene Wilder (or, more specifically, Willy Wonka)
Teenager: George Hamilton as Dracula in “Love at First Bite” and Harrison Ford as Han Solo (I hated “teen idols,” who at the time were folks like Shaun Cassidy, John Travolta, Mark Hamill, and Leif Garrett–didn’t think any of them were at all attractive). I also had things for Leonard Nimoy as Spock and Mark Lenard as Sarek.
Adult: Hugh Laurie, Alan Rickman (I loves me some snarky Brits)
Let’s see…
As a kid in the 1970s
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I had a crush on Annette Funicello as she appeared on the Mickey Mouse Club, not really cognizant of the fact that I was watching reruns that were 20+ years old and Miss Funicello was in fact older than my mother.
Cindy from the Brady Bunch (the actress is actually a few years older than me, and I think we watched the show in the early rounds of reruns, so I was probably about the same age she was when the shows were filmed.
Marie Osmond.
Princess Leia. Not Carrie Fisher, but her character. I was 11 years old, watching Star Wars in the theater, and that scene where Luke breaks into Leia’s prison cell on the Death Star, and she’s dressed all in white, lying on her side and propped up on her elbow… stunning.
As a teenager:
Well… hmm. Our family television broke when I was 10 years old, and my parents elected to not repair or replace it. We also weren’t a movie-going family. So I really didn’t have enough exposure to celebrities during my teen years to develop any kind of celebrity crush. Maybe Molly Ringwald in The Breakfast Club, which I went to see when I was 18 or 19.
As an adult:
Jessica Alba, Keira Knightley, Meg Ryan, Drew Barrymore, Katie Couric (briefly, when she was still on the Today Show), Zhang Ziyi, Kirsten Dunst
As a kid (1970s): Lindsay Wagner, Carrie Fisher
As a teen (1980s): Olivia Newton-John
Now: Kristin Chenoweth, Claudia Black, Rachel Weisz, Keira Knightley