Olympic speed skater Eric Heiden, who won five gold medals in the 1980 Lake Placid Games. I watched him skate and clipped his results from the paper, with safety scissors, no doubt, as I was six years old. On more adult reflection, he has a rather bulbous nose and reminds me a bit of Ashton Kutcher, but I did save a recent Gap ad that featured Eric Heiden and probably some other athletes.
I was 8 or 9 when Midnight Madness came out, but the whole thing didn’t really start for me until Family Ties premiered 2 years later…by the time Back to the Future and Teen Wolf were released I had a huge crush on Michael J. Fox that didn’t go away until he married Tracy (though I’m still a big fan). I even assembled a Michael J. Fox scrapbook, which I still have to this very day (though it’s well-hidden ). The only letter I’ve ever written to a celebrity was to him: his publicist replied with a promotional postcard from Light of Day, which my friends and I scrutinized to determine whether MJF’s signature was ‘real.’ {grin}
Michael J. Fox was also responsible for my love of Night Court: I watched that show for the first time because I knew he was going to guest star (in early '84), and I got hooked.
As for 21 Jump Street, I always had a bigger crush on Peter DeLuise than Johnny Depp…and, while these days I certainly appreciate Johnny’s charms, I still like seeing the DeLuise boys on Stargate SG-1.
Tiffani Amber Thiessen - Kelly Kapowski from Saved by the Bell.
I loved her so much that when she joined the cast of 90210, I actually watched it for a season or so and thought I would die of ecstasy when I saw her in a black lace bra.
Fonzie, baby! I still have the t-shirt I wore when I was 5 or so. It is so little, and on the front there’s the Fonz giving two thumbs up with “Aaaaaaaaaaaay” across the bottom. sigh I love Henry Winkler to this day.
As a young kid growing up in the early 70’s I just fell in love with Tina Louise as Ginger Grant on Gilligan’s Island. She made bilogical processes happen to me before I even understood why they happened when I saw her on the screen.
George Brett. My whole room was done up in Royals’ colors, covered in Brett posters. Once I realized I couldn’t be a professional baseball player (as I’m female) I switched to:
James Woods
Bill Paxton
Ed Harris
pretty much all at the same time (and still, to some extent).
There was some Russell Crowe and Ewan MacGregor (later) in there, too.
My parents finally signed us up for cable during my senior year of high school, back when A&E and Nickelodeon shared the same channel. One afternoon, while waiting for the first show on A&E that night, I turned on Nick and noticed Christine “Moose” McGlade.
What, all these mentions of Star Wars, and I’m the only one who fell in love with Princess Leia? Carrie Fisher is OK in her other roles, but Leia specifically… Woo-hoo!
She’s got close competition, though, from Mary-Ann Summers, of Gilligan’s Island. And unlike Fisher, [url=“http://www.dawn-wells.com/”]Dawn Wells is still a babe (at 60-something!).
Heh. Rita Hayworth came to see me graduate from college. There are those who would claim the reason for her attendance was because her son was also graduating that day, but secretly I know she came to see ME.
Me too. I was five or six at the time, and though I didn’t know why, for some reason I thought sleeping with her (literally, of course) was a really, really good idea.
I’m including everything. What your first ever was. If it was post-pubescent, include that.
Now that I remember my first crush, I now remember all the others. Amy-Jo Johnson then Christina Ricci (Casper) Michelle Trachtenberg (When I saw Harriet The Spy in theatres)-Linzi Lohan (The Parent Trap)-Mandy Moore-and oddly enough Racheal Weisz (The Mummy). All of these girls are older than me. I wonder what that means.