Sexy Dudes Salon Left off its current list of sexy dudes...in no particular order
1. Keith Olbermann: This marks a hat trick(did I say that right? Because I know very few sports, and yet? this seemed appropriate.) of me complaining about KO and this list...did the column go that badly? Because this guy is so hot, he gets a special tag to commemorate it. He gets special notice for his passion on HCR. Very hot.
2. Domenic West; Even aside from "The Wire". this Brit has something special. I watched that "Age of Innocence" UK coffee ad with him reading a few months ago, and by the end, I was flushing. Even though he also read the lady's part(very well, actually,considering) and it was seven AM, and nobody(sorry UK!Don Draper) gets excited by instant coffee. For a minute, I wished I could, though.ETA:
Ooh...here's another one. Austen this time.
http://www.cartenoire.co.uk/pride-and-prejudice
3. Idris Elba His character, Stringer Bell, engineered murders and peddled heroin. Aside from his dreams of a legitimate business empire, he probably deserved what he got. So, why can't I stop wondering what aftershave a kingpin likes best? Because he's just that gorgeous, that's why.
4.Neil Gaiman and Michael Chabon; It's not really that these guys are that interchangeable...I find their talents hot for similar reasons. They both make "deep" and "Complicated" popular at a time when conventional wisdom says they'd be better off with textspeak and pictograms. They are also both known for being compelling off the page as well as on(and by compelling, I mean...)And when was the last time you were *pleasantly* shocked by an author photo?Also, their kids seem to think they're great.
5. Congressman Anthony Weiner: I like to think he's sort of an urban Mr. Smith, which is already pretty cool, even without him being the one guy Jon Stewart donates to. His passionate and singleminded insistance on Medicare for All inspires me every time I see him, and he's as tough as going through grade school with "Weiner" as a last name in America can make you.
He makes me a few french fries short of a happy meal, I admit it.
6. Josh Charles The Good Wife is perfectly good episodic drama, well cast with actors I've liked for years(including acknowledged Sexy Dude Chris Noth) but none of them caused me to be happy to see him out loud like Mr. Charles did. Even if I did call him "Dan". He looks really good, too, so I think somebody should make a big deal out of it, if not a sufficiently big deal to drive him back to old habits.(Yes, I think Krause is hot too, but I think he knows that...well, not about me, personally, of course, and I think "Dan" should finally be on a list "Casey" isn't on.)
7. Denis Leary:
He's tacky, rude, probably a plagiarist, and I've seen more of his bare ass over the five years of "Rescue Me" than anybody who's not a gloved doctor(and the body, while not bad, is kind of like middle-aged, wiry Irishman, and blah, blah, blah) but I'd still let him call me "Legs" or whatever crip nickname would cross his mind and drag me to a hotel room...is funny that powerful? Is it a bad boy thing? Don't know, but I'd hit it. A lot.
8. Jeremy Piven:
I feel like this one is a bit hard to understand, but it's kind of like being friends with a drama geek in school and meeting up with him later and thinking "Damn, he grew up *well*. He also has a real gift for saying really vulgar things in such a way that you love it instead of wanting to slap him silly, which might be the reason "Cupid" fans remember it with such glazed looks on their faces. We love the mixture of ruthless and insecure, hard-core and henpecked, and that faintly manic laugh.
Hug it out? Okay.
9. Adrian Grenier
My favorite man-genue(If this isn't a thing, Grenier is a reason why it should be.) It feels weird to write about someone's innocent qualities when his breakout role involves that much fake tit in his face, but that's how I'd still describe him, apart from his astonishing "Who's *that*?" good looks. I think I started to fancy Adrian beyond Vinny Chase when he started to lecture TMZ camera people about recycling and the damage of celebrity culture...the fact that he thought they might care...somehow it was like "Bless!" aspandarus might say.(I'm an idealist, but even I don't believe in people that much anymore...stay as sweet as you are and don't ever change, Mr. Grenier.And, suddenly, my yearbook makes more sense, even as my netflix queue becomes crowded with varying degrees of indie preciousness.)
"You make me feel so young...")
And all without sparkling, well, okay, a little, around the eyes. And I wouldn't be shocked at all, if, at next year's premiere, some ET idiot gets the scoop of the century when she asks if he's nervous and he says "We don't have stress on my planet,"
I'd still lust after him anyway; Brooklyn is exotic around here.
Brooklyn, Krypton...what's a few light-years?
He should play Ben Braddock in "The Graduate" before he gets one minute older, but probably real casting directors think he's too pretty.
10. Representative Alan Grayson
This one makes me either a. deep and principled, b. insane, or. c.shriekingly obvious about my daddy issues. Because I can't convince myself he's pretty, but, man, he's a populist gazillionaire. Like Daddy Warbucks crossed with the wiseass in the back of the classroom that I was always secretly drawn to but grade-grubbing enough to be pious about not "encouraging"(sometimes I don't like myself as a little girl any better than right now.)
But this one got the grades, too. Sexy. Yes, seriously. I think it started as a tribute...Trixie from Deadwood sort of thing,(and he's FUNNY, which I love) but then I found myself interested in his conversation about *economics*, which, okay, my answer about the Federal Reserve would be "Things Not Found In My Kitchen, Alex". But it was hot when he ripped some finance guy about it anyway.
Which is where another woman would be trying on lipstick. I wrote diaries.
If I write about someone, I'm usually pretty into them. Even if it's embarrassing.
"It's because you didn't have a strong father figure isn't it?" Maybe.