# Your "old lady/man" celebrity crush **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 24, 2017, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995 "2017-07-24T01:32:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/61 "2017-07-30T18:19:50Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Raquel Welch is an android; there’s no other possible explanation. That’s probably why she doesn’t swing her arms when she dances. Those aren't buoys...! ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2017, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/62 "2017-07-30T19:07:34Z")
> [@Cardigan](#): > > Morgan Fairchild hasn’t turned into a hosebeast just yet. There’s several and rather contradictory definitions of “hosebeast”. 😕 ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/63 "2017-08-02T21:34:56Z")
The Sam Shepard thread reminded me of how hard I fell for him after The Right Stuff. That persisted all these years too. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/64 "2017-08-02T21:47:43Z")
> [@4d3fect](#): > > My wife says hands off, he belongs to her. 😃 LOL, fight to the death! 😉 > [@gigi](#): > > The Sam Shepard thread reminded me of how hard I fell for him after The Right Stuff. That persisted all these years too. Yeah, Sam Shepard stuck with me, too. I loved that film in every way, but Sam always closed the deal when I decided between watching it again and watching something else. ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2017, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/65 "2017-08-02T22:47:30Z")
[Sam Elliott](http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000385/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1). He’s six years older than my dad, but man, that voice… ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/66 "2017-08-06T01:39:19Z")
Lately I’ve been getting sort of a crush on Louise Fletcher, been watching “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest”. Thing is that movie came out in 1975, more than a decade before I was even born. I’ve checked out her other roles, she used to play Westerns a lot in the late 50s and early 60s. She was very cute, though Fletcher is now 83 years old and I’m only 30. That’s a 50 plus year gap. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/67 "2017-08-06T02:17:54Z")
> [@Nema98](#): > > Lately I’ve been getting sort of a crush on Louise Fletcher, been watching “One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest”. Thing is that movie came out in 1975, more than a decade before I was even born. I’ve checked out her other roles, she used to play Westerns a lot in the late 50s and early 60s. She was very cute, though Fletcher is now 83 years old and I’m only 30. That’s a 50 plus year gap. Check out _The Cheap Detective_, it’s kind of a parody pastiche of Humphrey Bogart clichés with Fletcher playing Ilsa to Peter Falk’s Rick. And Scatman Crothers as Sam; how could it not be awesome? ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 10:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/68 "2017-08-06T10:30:50Z")
> [@caligulathegod](#): > > Cassandra “Elvira” Peterson. Bernadette Peters. My first serious girlfriend looked identical to a young Bernadette Peters. My age: 44 My contributions: [Julianne Moore](https://www.google.com/search?q=julianne+moore&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS749US749&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiV24T7scLVAhUX12MKHZzOBaoQ_AUICigB&biw=1600&bih=770), 12 years older than I. And, one I’m sure many agree with, but she slipped their minds, [Bonnie Hunt](https://www.google.com/search?q=bonnie+hunt&rlz=1C1CHBF_enUS749US749&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwixxpfescLVAhUR_mMKHWi5D1kQ_AUICigB&biw=1600&bih=770), 11 years older. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/69 "2017-08-06T21:42:03Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Check out _The Cheap Detective_, it’s kind of a parody pastiche of Humphrey Bogart clichés with Fletcher playing Ilsa to Peter Falk’s Rick. And Scatman Crothers as Sam; how could it not be awesome? I’ll check it out, thanks in advance for I have been trying to watch more things starring Louise. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [August 6, 2017, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/70 "2017-08-06T22:42:01Z")
> [@Nema98](#): > > I’ll check it out, thanks in advance for I have been trying to watch more things starring Louise. It’s not really starring Fletcher. It’s largely a parody of _The Maltese Falcon_, but at one point, Lou (Peter Falk) visits a nightclub that’s obviously Rick’s from _Casablanca_. It’s still good. Fletcher plays a role very different from her stern, authoritarian Nurse Ratched just a few years earlier. Good turns also from Falk, Marsha Mason (Neil Simon wrote the screenplay; they were married at the time), Madeline Kahn, Stockard Channing, and Ann-Margaret. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/71 "2017-08-07T00:12:04Z")
Another vote for Emmylou Harris. She just happens to be on TV at this very moment and does indeed look very nice. ---
**Author:** ![Periwinkle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Periwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Periwinkle)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2017, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/72 "2017-08-07T01:46:39Z")
Tom Selleck. ---
**Author:** ![toast\_pakora](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3ec8ea/32.png) [@toast\_pakora](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toast_pakora)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/73 "2017-08-11T21:56:15Z")
oh god yes, Sam Shepard. But he has some serious competition with Anthony Hopkins circa The Mask of Zorro. Antonio Banderas never had a chance. ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/74 "2017-08-11T22:46:47Z")
[Jacqueline Bisset](http://www2.pictures.zimbio.com/gi/Jacqueline+Bisset+BAFTA+LA+2014+Awards+Season+vM8tbavU-P6l.jpg) (72) [Susan Sarandon](http://www.bonamour.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Susan-Sarandon.jpg) (70) [Christie Brinkley](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4d/Christie_Brinkley_by_David_Shankbone.jpg/1200px-Christie_Brinkley_by_David_Shankbone.jpg) (63) ---
**Author:** ![standingwave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@standingwave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/standingwave)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2017, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/75 "2017-08-11T23:49:38Z")
> [@DrDeth](#): > > Yep, Raquel. > > I had a interesting meet with her. I was a Security Guard, working my way thru college, working at a Studio for some TV charity event . It gets boring waiting to go on, many celebrities get sloshed. > > My company usually hired retired cops or military. So Raquel comes up to me as says “You’re younger than most of our guards?” And I tell her I am working my way thru college. She asks my major and I say Marine Biology and then she chats for me for like a half hour about cetaceans. And she really knows her stuff, very intelligent. Sure, it was mostly due to being bored but still to converse with a lowly guard for that amount of time, and intelligently on a science issue, made me crush on her like mad. You know, I’ve always wanted to pretend I was a marine biology major. Sent from my SM-G950U using Tapatalk ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/76 "2017-08-12T00:08:55Z")
> [@standingwave](#): > > You know, I’ve always wanted to pretend I was a marine biology major. Careful! You might be called upon to fish a Titleist out of a whale’s blowhole! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 12, 2017, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/77 "2017-08-12T00:13:27Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Careful! You might be called upon to fish a Titleist out of a whale’s blowhole! :eek: Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ---
**Author:** ![JcWoman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jcwoman/32/2889_2.png) [@JcWoman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JcWoman)\ **Post date:** [August 14, 2017, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995/78 "2017-08-14T00:46:45Z")
I have all of you beat on age difference. My crush lived during the turn of the last century and I’m alive the turn of this century. Thought of posting here finally because I just went to see The Great Dictator on the big screen (Alamo Drafthouse for the win - again!) Chaplin is sooo dreamy. And brilliant and endlessly talented. Even with the silly painted mustache, I can see how gorgeous that man is. Whenever I watch his movies, I kind of float around for hours thinking about him. [Young](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/34/Charlie_Chaplin_portrait.jpg) [Older](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/27/3d/92/273d926f6addbcb281d09a168f86e283--charles-spencer-edward-steichen.jpg) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-old-lady-man-celebrity-crush/791995.md?page=3)