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kelex:
[01] List your top ten celebrity crushes
[02] Put all of them in ORDER of your lust for them
[03] Say which movie/show it was that hooked you
[04] Supply photos for the said stars
[05] Tag five people!
Well, I'm not going to do #5, and I don't think I can do #2. My first thought here is: I don't have any celebrity crushes. Okay, okay, you can stop laughing now. Part of the problem is: what is a celebrity? Everyone knows I fancy Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Aimery de Lusignan and Julius Caesar. And yes, I could come up with pictures of them. Mostly. Aimery didn't even make it into Kingdom of Heaven, mercifully, and I don't know of a medieval depiction of him - except on worn-down coins that give little sense of what he really looked like. And then there are the heroes I so love: Gambit, Daredevil, Batman, Nightwing, and Magneto.
But that doesn't seem to be in the spirit of the exercise.
Conversely, we also know I lust over the likes of Peter Wingfield, Michael Rosenbaum, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Jason Dohring - but do I? Not really. The beings I lust over are actually Methos, Lex Luthor, the Doctor, and Logan Eccles. Not the same at all. These are fictional beings. I don't even have much interest in the actors, comparatively. (This is true also for the female actors I adore: Nina Sosanya, Kirsten Bell, Ziyi Zhang and Gina Torres... It isn't them, really, it's their roles.)
And I've probably just named at least ten people. Okay, here's my current list. The order of the names reflects my current passions. I'll make the names links to their pictures.
Okay,
1. Methos. Played by Peter Wingfield in Highlander. Five thousand year old Immortal who'd rather hide than fight.
2. The Ninth Doctor on Doctor Who, played by Christopher Eccleston. Only nine hundred years old, he'd rather talk his way out of trouble than fight.
3. The Tenth Doctor on Doctor Who. Nine hundred and a bit, and not what's usually my type at all - so why do I love him do? I can't say, but I do.
4. Lex Luthor, played by Michael Rosenbaum on Smallville. Sexy, clever bad boy of Smallville business, who stares most charmingly into Clark Kent's eyes. It's Rosenbaum's acting style that gets me here. Vulnerable, tough, smart, and always the outcast.
5. Bodie, played by Lewis Collins in The Professionals. Ex-SAS, tough, smart-but-lazy, deeply honourable and fun to write about.
I'd go on to Logan Echolls here, but I think in the interest of gender-equality I'll talk about the girls. I don't feel the same urge to write about the characters they play, but I do love the following:
1. I suppose this is the closest to a real celebrity crust I've ever had: Cheryl Tiegs, who is not an actress but a model (though she acted in an episode of Moonlighting once). Found her in Glamour magazines of my teen years, and I still hae my collection of clippings.
2. Zoe in Firefly, played by Gina Torres.
3. Jen Yu played by Ziyi Zhang in Crouching tiger, Hidden Dragon.
4. Starbuck (Kara Thrace) played by Katee Sackhoff on Battlestar Galactica. Another case where I'd have said this person wasn't by type at all, but dammit, she must be, after all. She got under my skin.
5. Nina Sosanya, and I am using the actress's name here, not the character's, because I'm not sure whether to cite Trish on Doctor Who ("Fear Her") or Bellino in Casanova.
kelex:[01] List your top ten celebrity crushes
[02] Put all of them in ORDER of your lust for them
[03] Say which movie/show it was that hooked you
[04] Supply photos for the said stars
[05] Tag five people!
Well, I'm not going to do #5, and I don't think I can do #2. My first thought here is: I don't have any celebrity crushes. Okay, okay, you can stop laughing now. Part of the problem is: what is a celebrity? Everyone knows I fancy Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, Aimery de Lusignan and Julius Caesar. And yes, I could come up with pictures of them. Mostly. Aimery didn't even make it into Kingdom of Heaven, mercifully, and I don't know of a medieval depiction of him - except on worn-down coins that give little sense of what he really looked like. And then there are the heroes I so love: Gambit, Daredevil, Batman, Nightwing, and Magneto.
But that doesn't seem to be in the spirit of the exercise.
Conversely, we also know I lust over the likes of Peter Wingfield, Michael Rosenbaum, Christopher Eccleston, David Tennant and Jason Dohring - but do I? Not really. The beings I lust over are actually Methos, Lex Luthor, the Doctor, and Logan Eccles. Not the same at all. These are fictional beings. I don't even have much interest in the actors, comparatively. (This is true also for the female actors I adore: Nina Sosanya, Kirsten Bell, Ziyi Zhang and Gina Torres... It isn't them, really, it's their roles.)
And I've probably just named at least ten people. Okay, here's my current list. The order of the names reflects my current passions. I'll make the names links to their pictures.
Okay,
1. Methos. Played by Peter Wingfield in Highlander. Five thousand year old Immortal who'd rather hide than fight.
2. The Ninth Doctor on Doctor Who, played by Christopher Eccleston. Only nine hundred years old, he'd rather talk his way out of trouble than fight.
3. The Tenth Doctor on Doctor Who. Nine hundred and a bit, and not what's usually my type at all - so why do I love him do? I can't say, but I do.
4. Lex Luthor, played by Michael Rosenbaum on Smallville. Sexy, clever bad boy of Smallville business, who stares most charmingly into Clark Kent's eyes. It's Rosenbaum's acting style that gets me here. Vulnerable, tough, smart, and always the outcast.
5. Bodie, played by Lewis Collins in The Professionals. Ex-SAS, tough, smart-but-lazy, deeply honourable and fun to write about.
I'd go on to Logan Echolls here, but I think in the interest of gender-equality I'll talk about the girls. I don't feel the same urge to write about the characters they play, but I do love the following:
1. I suppose this is the closest to a real celebrity crust I've ever had: Cheryl Tiegs, who is not an actress but a model (though she acted in an episode of Moonlighting once). Found her in Glamour magazines of my teen years, and I still hae my collection of clippings.
2. Zoe in Firefly, played by Gina Torres.
3. Jen Yu played by Ziyi Zhang in Crouching tiger, Hidden Dragon.
4. Starbuck (Kara Thrace) played by Katee Sackhoff on Battlestar Galactica. Another case where I'd have said this person wasn't by type at all, but dammit, she must be, after all. She got under my skin.
5. Nina Sosanya, and I am using the actress's name here, not the character's, because I'm not sure whether to cite Trish on Doctor Who ("Fear Her") or Bellino in Casanova.
