Or should I call it a man-crush?
Ever since she started covering Wimbledon for NBC, I've had a crush on Mary Carillo. For the past two weeks she's been doing Canadian interest stories for the Winter Olympics, including one where she got dressed up as a member of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. During the whole segment where she was clumsily trying to keep up with their drills, she had a sort of embarrassed half-smile on her face that was too precious to even try to describe. So anyways, yes, I like her funny, honest jokes, her smile and voice (which I think is an underrated quality in pretty much anyone). Her voice is very authoritative yet still manages to sound mild and pleasant, and like she's never even been in the vicinity of panic.
But her voice is where I start asking myself questions. It is entirely too deep and masculine, almost like someone imitating a deep voice. She used to be a professional tennis player, so she has an ex-pro tennis players' body, but strangely a male ex-pro tennis player's body. She never fit into that mold of one of those women's players who are like 70% leg and last name ends in -ova. She was more the Billie Jean King or Monica Seles type with the aggressively unfashionable headband and no-nonsense hair style. But besides those old photos, I don't think I've ever seen her wear anything except a pants suit.
I mean, most girls, if you subtracted each and every one of their feminine characteristics, they would practically disappear, but with Mary Carillo you would get an eerie, half-formed ghost-creature out of a horror movie, but with a pants suit and deep, baritone voice, and, gosh, I hope that's not an Adam's apple?
But still, I like her.
But her voice is where I start asking myself questions. It is entirely too deep and masculine, almost like someone imitating a deep voice. She used to be a professional tennis player, so she has an ex-pro tennis players' body, but strangely a male ex-pro tennis player's body. She never fit into that mold of one of those women's players who are like 70% leg and last name ends in -ova. She was more the Billie Jean King or Monica Seles type with the aggressively unfashionable headband and no-nonsense hair style. But besides those old photos, I don't think I've ever seen her wear anything except a pants suit.
I mean, most girls, if you subtracted each and every one of their feminine characteristics, they would practically disappear, but with Mary Carillo you would get an eerie, half-formed ghost-creature out of a horror movie, but with a pants suit and deep, baritone voice, and, gosh, I hope that's not an Adam's apple?
But still, I like her.