I’m not talking about actors, but specific characters you have a thing for. My big one is Paul Le Mat’s character in American Graffiti, the one who gets stuck with a 12-year-old Mackenzie Phillips all night. My sister and I were talking recently about how he’s the perfect boyfriend–a bit older, tough, cool, brooding, with a fast car, the bad boy who is actually good (and ultimately tragic, which adds to the romance).
Who are you in love with?
Kaylee, from Firefly/Serenity. Total nerd, sexy in an innocent way, and oh, that amazing smile.
Oh, that’s a good one.
As a kid, I had a total crush on Dottie Hinson from A League of Their Own. She was awesome.
Sara in L.A. Story. She is the only one who’ll ever get all of Harris’s jokes, it just takes her a while to really embrace the idea.
Donna Pinciotti–girl next door and A RED HEAD (but blond was nice, too).
Marion, from Raiders of the Lost Ark, Adventurous, feisty, can drink you under the table and sexy as hell!
Probably one of the reasons I saw Raiders 11 times in the theater the year it came out.
Just as good **27 years later :eek: ** in “…Crystal Skull.”
Renee Soutendijk as the mysterious, alluring Christina Halsslag in The Fourth Man.
30+ years later, the fire is still strong.
The eyes? Unflappably upbeat?
Apropos of this insightful post by WordMan, and hearkening back to my days as a young teenager, I’d have to say Wednesday Addams.
And for nearly diametrically opposite reasons, Sally Solomon of 3rd Rock from the Sun.
(I also totally agree with burpo the wonder mutt about Donna Pinciotti. If I could slip, Pleasantville-like, into any fictional television universe, it would be Point Place, Wisconsin.)
^ Man, Point Place was full of skirts. Even Caroline. Sorta.
Kaylee, Natasha Romanoff and the Sundance Kid.
Oh, like you’ve never thought of that. Robert Redford was hot back in the day. I’m straight as an arrow and I’d still do Sundance.
Sounds strange, but one of mine would be Debra (Patricia Heaton) from Everybody Loves Raymond.
I’m not quite sure why, but I’ve always had a crush on her.
Oh, and Inga, from Young Frankenstein.
silenus, I certainly agree that Black Widow is hot, but that’s mostly just because she’s played by Scarlett Johanssen. It’s not something distinctive to the character.
I had such a thing for Lt. Uhura from Star Trek.
My comic-books lust/obsession/kink/fetish is for Spiral, the nasty lady with six arms in the X-Men comics. My God, those arms…
Hell yes, Scarlett Johansson. If you haven’t seen Under Her Skin yet, do yourself a favor.
Also, I get a little tingle every time Daisy Ridley appears as Rey in Star Wars VII.
Nurse Betty.
I’ve got a thing for James Hathaway, Robbie Lewis’s partner in the British cop series. He’s brilliant, nerdy, self-doubting, an ex-seminarian who plays classical/jazz guitar in a world music ensemble. He has impeccable manners and a sly, intellectual sense of humor. I watch the episodes over and over again just to hang out with him.
The only good thing in the movie.
Back in the day, when I was a more appropriate age, Baby in Dirty Dancing.
Helen Schlegel from Howards End. Smart. Charming. Indepedent-thinking. Big dark eyes that could make me do anything.
Oh, Inspector Lewis? Yes, it’s on Amazon Prime. Thanks…
I’ve never recovered from Peter O’Toole in Lawrence of Arabia. Even then (on the big screen in its original release), I knew he wasn’t boyfriend material. But damn…
