from that 70's show. Hands down.

But not Laura Prepon in Maxim. Eesh.

If you'd choose her from one movie but not another, it says something about her acting ability, more than it says anything about you.

It means she aparently can portray more than one character. It also means its impossible to know what she's like in real life.

I dunno about that. People are dressed and coiffed very differently from movie to movie -- that makes a big difference to how they look.

The celebrity I currently find most attractive facially does not fit my tastes very well body-type wise. I'm not sure there is a celebrity avatar of my standards of hotness. I like men with dark hair and light eyes, preferably blue, with prominent cheekbones, and often with slightly long faces. And body-type wise, I like men to be muscular but lithe and slender. So my current fave celebrity face is Tom Welling (Smallville) but he's a little on the overbuff side bodywise.

I think that their assumed personality has a lot to do with it, too. Maybe more so than looks for some people (me). In other words, it's the character you're attracted to, rather than the actor's real life persona.

You seem to be assuming I'm going totally on looks here.

Don't get me wrong, Rebecca Pidgeon is a damn fine looking woman, but that's not the only reason I'd choose her.

Exactly. Thus the reason I'm not at all attracted to Rebecca Pidgeon in Heist.

Oooooh, I seeeeeee.

Hmm. Er. Well, I spent most of my high school career crushing on Fox Mulder. I always had a tendency to crush on fictional guys, who weren't going to do something like pose in a giant nappy for Playgirl. Hire someone to drill holes in their head and administer direct electric shocks to their brain to reclaim lost memories, yes. Pose in a nappy, no.

Hmmm. I think you just described Mithrandir. Which is a good thing, methinks, being that you're married to him and all... :)

You should see her talk about this in person. She points out her favorite things about Matt while Matt blushes and grins smugly. It's revoltingly cute.

Indeed. In fact, were I married to anyone else, I would probably have to conceal the extent of my high school crush on Mithrandir, who is pretty much the cutest guy ever. :)

And I am not sure you're right on the grinning smugly part, Wonko. There's definitely blushing, though. Can I help it if his expressive eyebrows come up in coversation?

I agree wholeheartedly. She is married to David Mamet which if you agree makes her even cooler. State and Main is where she shines and makes me wanna check the junk in her trunk.

Badonkadonk!

when you click a thumbnail to change the master image, and then mouseover the master image, the alt text for the original image is still there. I think you can dynamically change the alt attribute with javascript...

oops, hey this was supposed to be in reply to the "new feature" story. :)

Please send a link to a decent photo of this Pidgeon woman. She doesn't have a photo on her imdb.com profile. (!) (This is my Pet Peeve #17, between #18: urban real estate left empty and idle for more than three months, and #16: running out of postage stamps.)

I don't think there is a perfect example of "what's attractive to me in the opposite sex" in a celebrity. There's the "take him home, have a decent conversation, snuggle, make him my boyfriend and have him meet the parents" type, and there's the "take him home and..."--well, let's just sum up with a previous poster's oh-so-appropos word: badonkadonk! There's a lot more of the latter and the former in Hollywood. So, for the snugglers/keepers, I'm gonna say Noah Wylie (runners up: Ice Cube, Seth from O.C., John Cusack.) Special bonus snuggler/badonkadonk: George Clooney. For PURE Badonkadonk, about which I've got a stronger impression: PAUL NEWMAN, preferably in "Exodus," but any of his films from 1963-1984. ***He is the finest piece of male ass this world has ever seen.*** But also definitely: MATTHEW MCCONNAUGHEY-- in "EdTV," in "A Time to Kill," and TWICE in "U-571"--once for the Navy whites, and once for the wet T-shirt. Honorable Mention to Brad Pitt in "Thelma & Louise," and Best Newcomer goes to Colin Farrell (and next year's will probably go to that bartender on "North Shore"--hot damn!). Colin's moving up my list of five, I can tell you. Yeeow. Pretty convential choices, but what can I say. Badonkadonk.

I meant "THAN the former." (Word up: the Preview button is your friend.)

Google Image Search to the rescue.

You and Felicity seem to have completely different tastes in men. Every single man you named is someone that, if I had to guess, I'd guess women found attractive. Hell, I'd sleep with George Clooney if no one was looking. But I can never seem to peg Felicity's tastes. Weird how there's so much difference between siblings.

Nurture over nature, I suppose.

Actually, if you put the following pictures next to each other: David Duchovny (in the first four seasons or so of the X-Files), Tom Welling (in Sma'ville), Ralph Fiennes (in the English Patient, maybe Oscar and Lucinda -- heck, quite possibly anything where he isn't Evil), and Mithrandir, you might get an idea. That Cillian Murphy chappy from 28 days later might qualify too, I don't know until I see him in more things looking healthy and happy. But at any rate, I have lined up the first three in a list of hot guys in an online forum, and the resemblance is noticeable.

Of course, I had a raging crush on Michael Biehn's mid-80's ouevre for a couple years there. If you tag that face onto your list of faces, it'll totally throw off the mental image. But, seriously. If you put good pictures of those three, plus Mithrandir, in a row, you may possibly grok my incredibly picky taste.

Oooh, I forgot about Michael Biehn. He's yummy. Put him on my list. And he's got that man-of-few-words, protective thing going on in Terminator and Aliens. There's where our tastes overlap!

Cute. I can't believe _anyone_ is married to David Mamet. Good plays and screenplays, but I've got to think the guy's hard to live with. What a dark side.