BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?

Subject: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 08:41 AM

Having just been reminded of my crush on Cliff Richard at the age of ten,(I was ten, not Cliff) I just wondered what stars everyone else loved or lusted after. Or still love or lust after come to that.

After Cliff Richard I had a passion for years for Herman of Herman's Hermits, closely followed by Paul MacCartney. In more recent years there was Paul Newman (every woman's dream surely?) Paul McGann and Mel Gibson. Sad?

Hmmmm...there seem to be a lot of Pauls in there....

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 08:43 AM

I went to Catholic schools. But there was Sister Mary Magdalene...WOOO!

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 08:45 AM

The Harri Watts Band.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 08:55 AM

Ah...memories.

The very first "heart throb" taped on my wall (his pic, not him) was Richard Chamberlain as Doctor Kildare.


And yes, I know before anyone brings it to my attention...

Some 48ish years later, Chamberlain FINALLY came out of the closet.



It has explained so much. (About my choices through the years, not his.)

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: artbrooks
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 09:03 AM

Annette Funichello...my parents were pretty strict about what I was allowed to watch on television, but oh boy what that girl did to a Mouseketeers outfit!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Strollin' Johnny
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 09:09 AM

Sue Pearson

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 09:10 AM

Well, I shouldn't really admit this, but ya know, everytime I've looked in a mirror....

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 09:15 AM

Joan Baez, Buffy Sainte-Marie, Diana Rigg, Winona Ryder. (in that order) Joan and Buffy definitely had the biggest effect on me (since I was younger then), and Buffy the most powerful effect of all. But Joan was first...and first is really something to remember. She was an amazing sight in 1961, and amazing to hear as well. You wanted to lay down your life for her at a moment's notice.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 09:16 AM

Oh gosh yes!! I'd forgotten Richard Chamberlain! And there was Michael Landon who played Little Joe in Bonanza. And now I think back, I had a picture of one of the Tarzan actors (NOT Johnny Weismuller!) cut out of a magazine and stuck in my scrapbook when I was four! (I was an early starter.) Then there was whoever played Blondel in the TV series Richard the Lionheart......

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 09:20 AM

Little Hawk...Buffy Saint-Marie did it for me too but latterly..Emma Bunton(Baby Spice) the most beautiful of the Spice Girls.....wow...
O.K go on then...call me a dirty old man....my reply would be "Hey..not so much of the OLD!"
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Roger the Skiffler
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 09:22 AM

Julie Christie (saw her on stage in Birmingham about the same time Billy Liar came out) has been a lifetime favourite, as has Diana Rigg, also remember having a crush on an American actress I saw in a western and a film about the Leopold/Loeb case- Diane Varsi...am I showing my age?

RtS
(not to mention Thora Hird...)

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 09:23 AM

I have a copy of Isaac Asimov's book The Sensuos Dirty Old Man. No one else seems to have ever heard of it.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: catspaw49
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 09:36 AM

Like Art, I too had it for Annette Funicello but then I must admit I was won over by another Disney girl, Hayley Mills. As a kid, Hayley was just plain "cute." I was really nuts about her.

Annette has had quite a life an her story is, even to an old cynical curmudgeon, pretty inspiring and we got to see how neautiful Annette really was. Hayley has had a very decent career but the cute part left her somewhere along the line and that little turned up button nose became a blower of major proportion.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Peace
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:00 AM

Was partial to Jayne Mansfield.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Peace
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:03 AM

Course, I was breast fed as an infant.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Bill D
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:04 AM

Rapaire..I have a copy of Asimov's book also. (and his dirty limerick contest with John Ciardi)....Asimov was the paradigm DOM. He was famous for chasing girls at Sci-Fi conventions.

The only semi-lust I can remember was for Brigitte Bardót...(Jayne Mansfield and Sophia Loren..etc...did nothing for me. Too...ummm...'pneumatic')

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Peace
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:06 AM

Bardot was my other heart trhob. Thing is, I didn't know that's where my heart was located.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Mooh
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:07 AM

Linda Ronstadt. Had her full page picture from Rolling Stone magazine tacked to my bedroom wall. Her voice still does it for me.

Thanks for the memories.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Peace
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:13 AM

Sorry for misspelling throb. Got excited there for a sec.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,harpgirl
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:16 AM

Sam Elliott. I'm still smitten...

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Metchosin
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:34 AM

oh gee........Ed "Kookie" Burns, Sal Mineo and Cliff Richards as well. I even went to see North to Alaska to get a glimpse of Kookie and specifically to see Sal Mineo in the Gene Krupa Story.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: KateG
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:35 AM

Ah, the sensuous Dirty Old Man....yes, it does exist, or at least it did. The good Dr. A gave a lecture at my college back in the early 1970's. Don't remember what it was about, except that it was very good and very funny.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Midchuck
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:38 AM

I go along with those who mentioned Joan, Brigitte, and Annette. As suggested by others, my love for Joan was pure, chaste, and spiritual; my love for Brigitte wasn't. Annette was somewhere in between.

Nice to see how many people on here are as old as me!

Peter.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: freda underhill
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:40 AM

George Harrison.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:42 AM

Cliff Richard! George Harrison! Lord Palmerston! You lot must be bloody ancient!

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:50 AM

Sean Connery.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Metchosin
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:50 AM

come to think of it, I'm sure Sal Mineo was really Annette in drag.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: webfolk
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 11:00 AM

Linda Lewis

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 11:16 AM

So Brucie...is it Dolly Parton now??. Your post gave me a little titter.
Best wishes.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: wilbyhillbilly
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 11:20 AM

Cher then (original model), CHER NOW (updated model) as in her Cher extravaganza video.

Blimey even that is a few years old now!

Ah well, it still makes an old man very happy.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: pdq
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 11:28 AM

MBSLynne - perhaps your Tarzan actor was Ron Ely?

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Amos
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 12:07 PM

Marilyn Monroe, suspended in time in her perfect form, the eternal explosion-in-wait, the sensuous black and white volvano of feminine potential. Ahh...what a woman...


A

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 12:21 PM

My first love was (now, no teasing!) Rod Serling. I not only thought he was a hunk, I also greatly admired his taste in short stories (that's a big draw for me).

Thereafter I fell, hard, for Michael York, and I've never actually gotten over that one. A few years ago, he appeared in a Maidenform ad, talking straight to the camera about how much he admired women who wore sensuous lingerie (a word he can pronounce, unlike most folks I know). He had no stage makeup for this appearance, and the camera lovingly caressed every facial crag and wrinkle. I ran right out and bought ought the undies department at my local boutique. He was still gorgeous -- and quite possibly still is.

Claire

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Jeanie
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 12:36 PM

At the age of four: Dickie Valentine (remember him ???) I used to draw endless portraits of him and blush.
From 6 to around 10: Wally Whyton (plus his TV companion Pussy Cat Willum)
From age 10 into teens: Like lots of others here: Paul McCartney
Later teens/twenties: Martin Shaw. He was Assistant Stage Manager at the Queen's Theatre Hornchurch, fresh out of drama school. You could tell he was going to be Somebody and totally gorgeous....
Now: Neil Pearson. Admired for acting skills and other attributes.... Oh, and still Martin Shaw, in greying ruggedness. Oooh.....

- jeanie (lying down in darkened room to recover)

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: frogprince
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 12:37 PM

At a very early age, I fell in love with Jane Russell; it was kind of a default thing; we didn't have a TV yet, and we saw so few movies I didn't have many choices; when I matured a bit more, I fell for the most exquisite, enduringly beautiful face in American music: Emmy Lou Harris.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Peace
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 12:40 PM

Georgiansilver: Since I have matured, I no longer even think about tawdry things like sex or whatever those things were that captivated my imagination as a child.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Big Mick
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 12:42 PM

When I was young, Annette was it, and I was quite sure that if I could just meet her on the beach, we would last forever.

When I was a little older, I saw a film called "Soldier Blue". Candace Bergen starred in it, this was in the late 60's. I fell drop dead in love with her.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 12:43 PM

You know, we've had this thread before, but I'm too lazy to make a blue clicky to it.

Nevermind, it's bringing back so many good images.

Yes to Michael York, and YES to Martin Shaw!!!!



And of course, now that it's become "are" as well as "were" I can add Liam Neeson, and Daniel Day Lewis....and OF COURSE both "were and are" Now and Forever-the Hottest Hottie of them all-Sean Connery!)

Whew! If I smoked I'd need a ciggy about now.

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Once Famous
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 12:52 PM

Annette also got my vote. When she was a mousketeer, I was not watching a girl, but she was a 13 year old woman to an 11 year old.

The first female I ever wanted to see her breasts.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Mudlark
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 01:11 PM

I was 8 or 9 years old when I fell in love with Hoagy Charmichael. I saw him in the movie To Have and to Hold, on a 10-inch TV screen in a console as big as a refrigerator. Since then I have remained constant in my love--for both the man and his music, including the song he sang in that movie, Hong Kong Blues. It was about the first thing I learned to play when I got a guitar 10 years later. As to the star of that old movie, Bogie, I never understood the draw, altho Robert Mitchum put a twist in my knickers, on occasion.

In the 70's I read The Anarchists' Convention, a short story by John Sayles, and promptly fell in love with him as well. Such a witty and inventive writer, articulate speaker and film maker of towering skill and integrity, I'm amazed that he is not celebrated more--he is a national treasure.   ( I don't fall often, but I do fall hard!)

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Blowzabella
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 01:11 PM

I was a huge fan of Pete Duel, out of Alias Smith & Jones - devasted when he shot himself. I can still remember virtually ALL of the introduction to the series ...Hannibal Heyes and Kid Curry - the two most respected outlaws in the history of the West - and in all the trains and banks they robbed, they never shot anybody. This made our two latter day Robin Hoods very popular - with everone 'cept the railroads and the banks that is...

Sad...in both senses of the word!

I also confess to having Christopher Lee on my bedroom wall, loved Oliver Tobias from the Arthur of the Britons series and rather liked the bloke out of Follyfoot (but can't remember his name)

Nowadays - Darragh O'Malley (Harper in the Sharpe series rather does it for me)- Sean Bean's quite nice too!

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Blowzabella
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 01:14 PM

Oh yes - and Liam AND Sean (Connery)

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 01:20 PM

ClaireBear, I understand completely the fascination with Rod Serling. I remember always being drawn to the witty, intellectual characters over the hunks, but it's always nice when the intellectual ones are also good looking!

Programs from my childhood with those sorts of individuals were Star Trek (Spock was more interesting than the rest), Wild Wild West (Artemis Gordon was always the witty one), and as I got older, many of the characters I saw those sorts of individuals on programs like Mystery! in the U.S.. John Thaw on Morse was certainly a flawed individual, but fascinating nonetheless. The detective in the Dalgliesh programs (can't think of the series now--Roy Marsden was the actor) was always very appealing--the DCI who was a poet. I'm sure there are more, but they don't come to mind at the moment. Oh--and Timothy Dalton as Rochester in Jane Eyre. Though he was far too handsome to really pull off Rochester, he was surly enough to appear unattractive.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 01:22 PM

Veronica Strong (It's Dark Outside UK TV) Bardot ! Ruby Murray, Liz Taylor in Ivanhoe and Cat On A Hot Tin Roof. Over the past few decades too many to mention.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,TIA
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 01:30 PM

Jeannie (as in I Dream of...) What an outfit!

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Wesley S
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 01:30 PM

I met Rod Serling once - he spoke at our school. He was shorter than I expected. But then again everyone is shorter than I expected.

As far as heart throbs go - I was a very young and impressionable boy when I saw Hitchcocks "Rear Window" with Grace Kelly. She had to have been the most beautiful woman in the world.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,harpgirl
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 02:27 PM

I like Sam Elliott so much I freeze frame his sultry looks in "The Quick and The Dead". Oh my God......

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 02:41 PM

Jo Rowbotham appeared in a couple of episodes of Dixon of Dock Green in (about) 1967. At that point I became aware of the sheer sexiness of a husky voice - I was a mere 10!

And I fell in love with Hannah Gordon not long after that (attractive with a voice to die for!).

The early - mid seventies had goddesses a-plenty - Linda Ronstadt, Emmylou Harris to name but two.

But, MBSLynne - I guess you would win no prizes for my ultimate heart throb. Not because of Rowan and martin - I first saw her with the greatest comic actor - Peter Sellers - in There's A Girl In My Soup. Not Diana Dors - for me, Goldie Hawn still does it!

epn

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: jimmyt
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 02:41 PM

that youngest Lennon sister! I was in the 3rd grade and vaguely remember the germination of impure thoughts.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 02:46 PM

I can't believe I'm the first to mention Mary Travers.

I probably recognized women like Buffy and Joan as wonderful, serious artists, but Mary was something else, an absolute icon -- a charismatic stage presence; someone with admirable sentiments, a deep level of commitment, and the power to carry her message to the world at large; and (perhaps most importantly) *exactly* what a state-of-the-art hippie chick was supposed to look like.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,An English Patriot
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 02:48 PM

My two loves as a young boy were the two girls who use to play Patrick Cagill's daughters in Father, Dear Father. They were blonde and had the most gorgeous eyes. I hoped like mad that when I grew up, I would have a girl friend that looked just like those two.I have not a clue as to their names or whatever became of them.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,TIA
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 03:04 PM

Oh, and Liesl in the Sound of Music.... Amazing blue eyes.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 03:08 PM

Colin Firth, not that long ago. ;-)

Clairbear, I bought a bunch of books at a yard sale last weekend, and when I got home I discovered that I had mistakenly purchased a copy of Michael York's autobiography (for 10 cents, hardback). I'm getting ready to throw it away, but if you want it I'll be glad to mail it to you!

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,ClaireBear
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 03:25 PM

Thanks anyway, but I got it from my library in the audiobook version, read by (sigh...) the great voice itself. Print would just pale in comparison!

I think it might be something about that Royal Shakespeare Company diction. I'm a sucker for both Patrick Stewart and Edward Woodward too.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 03:32 PM

that lovely woman who played Cary Grant's love interst in Indiscreet....sigh....

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 03:59 PM

pdq you are right! It was Ron Ely...I can still remember the picture vividly!

Ed (Kooky) Burn I remember the name of...girls at school used to go around singing "Kooky, Kooky lend me your comb", but I was not allowed to stay up and watch...was it "77 Sunset strip"?

And how could I forget one of my current favourites? Ewan Macgregor!! Particularly as Obiwan Knobi. (Good grief! How do you spell that??)

The guy who plays Aragorn in "Lord of the Rings" is pretty hunky too, and yes, Sean Bean.

There are just so many!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 04:19 PM

GUEST of 3:32 PM: You mean whatshername, who also starred in Casablanca opposite Bogart?

INGRID BERGMAN!!!!

(Nice choice, by the way.)

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: lucky_p
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 04:29 PM

Oh...

Agree with some on the thread:

Richard Chamberlin
Carey Grant
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney
Harvey Paris (my first love at summer camp)
My ex-husband when I first met him.
My darling partner now.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 05:32 PM

Sean Connery. From age 11 I've loved him. Still do.

Hugh Jackman (X Men, Swordfish, Van Helsing) is running a close second these days though!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Sam L
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 06:25 PM

Cher was so beautiful back then when she looked more normal and had odd teeth, and seemed perpetually a little embarrassed but perpetually in the process of getting over it.

Dawn Wells. Mouseketeers were before my time, and Tina Louise didn't do it for me. Nonnie Narnell. The big sister in the Partridge family, Ah--Susan Dey. Couldn't think of it. My third grade teacher.

Dennis the Menace's mom. Mrs. Bumstead. What babes.

Joni Mitchell laughing.

Most women don't think Klaus Kinski is as beautiful as I do.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: jaze
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 07:05 PM

Early on...Katherine Ross
Later on..Emmylou Harris

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 07:06 PM

Cher was amazing back then (60's and 70's) and is still maintaining herself very well. She was not among my list of goddesses, exactly, but I was definitely impressed.

I seem to have been one of the few boys in the 60's who did NOT want to see Annette Funicello's breasts...but there's a dead simple reason for it: we didn't have a TV in our house until 1968!!! So how would I become conscious of Annette Funicello without TV? Well, I guess there were those beach movies too, but I don't remember much about that... :-) I knew she existed, that was about it.

Nope, the people I fixated on during my teen years were found strictly on the covers of record albums that I listened to until the grooves were worn out...or on the pages of books, most of which had been written long before the 60's. I grew up without TV, and that made me "a stranger in a strange land", I can tell you!

When I finally got around to watching TV, Annette was not much of an item any longer (as far as I know), but The Avengers was a popular show, so that's when I noticed Diana Rigg. I thought Mary Tyler Moore was very sweet too, a truly likeable woman. I had not seen her earlier in that family show, whatever it was, with Dick Van Dyke.

I was vaguely aware of the TV stuff in the 60's from hearing about it secondhand and reading comics, but hardly ever saw any of it till '69 and after that.

I was permeated in folk records, however, from about 1959 on and we had every Joan Baez and Buffy Sainte-Marie album you could get, as soon as they came out.

I still remember that picture of Joan, perched on the fence, with her beautiful bare feet showing. It was on the back of one of the early albums (one of the live ones at Carnegie Hall, I think). Ye Gods, she was something! She was like something that had dropped out of the sky from some other century.

I agree that Linda Ronstadt was very attractive...but she stirred somewhat simpler and baser emotions in me than Baez or Buffy... :-) I didn't worship her to the point of madness, I sort of viewed her the way one might a nice ripe peach or something. Casual lust, in other words. Attraction, but not True Love. I liked those album pictures she had rollerskating and so on. "Nice gams!", as they say in those old movies...

I understand the thing about Michael York too, looking vicariously from a female perspective, and Sean Connery. Those guys, well, they definitely have "it", no doubt about it, if your yen is toward the male gender. You'd have to be blind not to see it, or else just incapable of transcending your own gender-based identity, if even for a moment.

By the way, Kathleen Turner in Body Heat (in the 80's) just about friggin' melted the screen every time she appeared on it. Absolutely unforgettable. That was her first feature film, and boy, it was a doozie. Film noire at its very best, that was.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Peace
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 07:35 PM

To An English Patriot.

Merry Christmas.

www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/articles/
f/fatherdearfather_1299001122.shtml

or Google "Father, Dear Father"

The first two sites have pictures for you.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Peace
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 07:40 PM

In my dotage, the name Sharon Stone comes to mind, and jus' stays there.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Peace
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 07:54 PM

Heck, I am as hetero as ya can get and I love Sean Connery, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Blowzabella
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 07:58 PM

I confess, I'm surprised none of the chaps seem to have mentioned Kate Bush as a pin up yet - she was on my wall, as a beauty - along with the males I'd have drooled over. She's definitely what I hoped to be perceived as (not much hope mind you!)

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 08:17 PM

Oh, here's another vote of confidence for Emmy Lou Harris. A great lady.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Bobert
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 09:07 PM

Connie Stevens... Whew...

Okay, I was like 12 and she was like, ahhhh, a lot older... But I woulda married her anyway...

Bobert

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: dianavan
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:38 PM

1. Spin of Spin and Marty
2. Dion of Dion and the Belmonts
3. Jessie Collin Young of the Youngbloods

d

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Auggie
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:42 PM

Vivian Leigh from Gone with The Wind
Sally Field (no , not when she was flying around as a nun, but later in the 1970's)
Early Linda Ronstadt
Goldie Hawn, at any age

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Peace
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:44 PM

. . . and Goldie Hawn.

She was dynamite in "Bird on a Wire."

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: freda underhill
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:47 PM

F. Murray Abraham.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 10:59 PM

Connery has aged to the point that one of these days they'll stop having him play the romantic leads. :) Today I would choose Tommy Lee Jones for a mature romantic lead. He's one smart actor/writer. (Here's the Google Image search. He's a pleasure to behold!)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Peace
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 11:03 PM

True. But Sharon Stone is a pleasure to be held.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: freda underhill
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 11:10 PM

yes, Tommy Lee Jones.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Amergin
Date: 14 Oct 04 - 11:50 PM

I didn't really have a heart throb growing up...there were alot of women that I always thought were real sexy...but that's about it. I never was into posters much.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Metchosin
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 12:24 AM

Nah, not Tommy Lee Jones, his eyes are OK but he's got a funny mouth....

I'm sort of attracted to the fellow who plays Aragorn too.........if I could just get past his stringy greasy hair.

You must have been really smitten by her to overlook the fact that Bird on a Wire was a really bad, bad movie, brucie. I remember it because a lot of it was filmed about 500 feet down the road from where I live.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 01:12 AM

Ursula Andress. I would still watch What's New Pussycat all the way through just to watch her unzip her jump suit.
Brigitte Bardot haunted my sleepless nights when I was 11 or 12. Gina Lolabrigitta was very hot. Julie Christie had those sensual lips that kept Dr Zhivago coming back. I had a little thing for Grace Slick back in the day, and Suzanne Vega a little later..beauty, brains, political consciousness.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: wilbyhillbilly
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 01:40 AM

Thanks for the reminder, how could I have not mentioned her?

Still my current heart throb Emmy Lou Harris

SHE IS GORGEOUS XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX and what a voice.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Folk Form # 1
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 02:14 AM

Brucie, thank you, thank you, thank you

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 02:54 AM

How come there are so many more men posting on here than women???

Sally Field was very cute in her youth when she was playing "Gidget". People used to say she reminded them of me so I wore my hair in bunches like she did and used to say "Toodles!" instead of bye.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: muppitz
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 04:13 AM

Ok one from another Woman MBSLynne!

Must emphasise, these are all past crushes.
(Apart from the second one!)

Jonathan Frakes (Only the trekkies will know who he is!)
Christian Slater (Movie Star, currently in rehab!)
Mark Owen (Of Take That, showing my lack of age now!)
Nick Carter (Another Boy Band!)
Joe Broughton (Poor guy, I stalked him for months!)
Joe Wright (Another poor soul who had to put up with me stalking him!)

Roughly in that order

Have some current Folkie Crushes, but am too scared to mention them, incase they find out!

Muppitz x

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Jeanie
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 05:27 AM

English Patriot: I think both of the daughters in "Father, Dear Father" are still working, although not as prominently on TV ! Natasha Pyne has had parts in 'The Bill' and 'Cadfael'.

ClaireBear: I agree with you wholeheartedly about the 'Royal Shakespeare Co.'-type speaking voices of Michael York et al., and the ones I mentioned: Neil Pearson and Martin Shaw. It's the voice that does it, every time !

Here are a few more(still) gorgeous men with gorgeous voices: Alan Rickman, Robert Lindsay, Hywel Bennett. How could I have forgotten to mention Hywel Bennett before ? Remember him playing Romeo in the BBC play in the 60s (with Thora Hird as the Nurse) ? I remember thinking him even more gorgeous than Leonard Whiting as Romeo in the Zeffirelli film of around the same time. He's made a wonderful transition from 'pretty boy' to 'rugged toughie' and still with that fantastic voice.

Off at a tangent a bit, but for any other former teenage droolers of the Zeffirelli Romeo & Juliet: Mercutio in that film (John McEnery)was an excellent Friar Lawrence and Old Capulet (i.e. the very, very old man) in this year's production at Shakespeare's Globe. How time passes....

Oh, and that's reminded me of another one: Alan Bates. I saw him on stage as Hamlet, then years later he had become Hamlet's father on film.

Hope this has revived some more teenage drooling memories for people.

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 05:38 AM

Sean Connery can be my romantic lead at ANY age.... like a fine wine, he just gets better.

Tommy Lee Jones is fairly craggy already.. imagine that face once gravity has had it's revenge!

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Sweetfia
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 05:58 AM

GEORGE CLOONEY! GEORGE CLOONEY! GEORGE CLOONEY! GEORGE CLOONEY!

And I definately agree on Sean Connery. I've got a huge crush on Robert DeNero(?), him outta the gansta movies, too!

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 08:04 AM

Jeanie, you have strange tastes!

I have to agree on Sean Connery. Though he's never been on my personal list he is VERY hunky, and yes, I think he's more attractive now than in his James Bond days. That's a high compliment from me who usually goes for younger men!

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Jeanie
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 12:08 PM

Well, MBS Lynne, it just goes to show that there is no accounting for taste !

Maybe the above links will help you change your mind about my heart-throbs ? If not....well, I can live with that !!

- jeanie   ;)

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,Ms Lemon
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 12:10 PM

Mickey Dolenz(Monkees)

David Essex

Peter Gabriel (when with Genesis)

John Miles (now with Tina Turner's touring band)

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 12:48 PM

So many hunks...so little time. I had forgotten all about Hywel Bennet, (if he was Shelley?) big yes.

Oh and lots of ones already listed........... from school days it would have been Marc Bolan and David Essex, progressing to Mick Jones and Paul Weller, with a heavy handed dash of Zappa throughout.

Stage would be Robert De Niro and Alan Rickman....oooooh how could I forget Richard E Grant?

Also had a penchant for Richard Beckinsale from Porridge/Rising Damp, in a lovable puppy sort of way.

Sean Connery, but only on the phone nowadays....and I think Rupert Everett is beautiful, but unavailable.

When I was really little...7/8 yrs I had a poster of Gary Glitter on the wall, he was wearing a flame coloured foil cat suit, and adopting the stance....all chest and groin. I liberated my sisters cotton wool balls to stuff behind the poster to make him 3D, ( how can I even admit to that?).

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Sam L
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 12:48 PM

I don't get the Sean Connery thing, the way he pronounjshes his ejshes getjsh on my nervejsh, and I don't know, he seems nice, but not quite the thing.

Women seem to like Paul McCartney more than John, but in the early days John was really beautiful. By Let It Be I think Ringo was in a way the cutest Beatle. John started looking mean, Paul had a big Brando ass going, and George looked increasingly haggard.

Aretha Franklin would still be sexy if she looked like a bulldog. Okay, maybe she does, a little, but still.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: John MacKenzie
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 12:54 PM

Goldie Hawn pops my cork, then there's Joni Mitchell, Felicity Kendall,Greta Scaachi[sp?]Cissy Spaceck, and any pretty redhead.
Giok

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Jeanie
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 01:23 PM

Yes, Milk Monitor, Hywel Bennett was "Shelley" - and lots of other characters since. Do you watch Eastenders ? If so, you will have seen him last year in several episodes as a tough crook (but maybe not recognized who it was !) He still has that gorgeous rich voice: properly theatrically trained but with faint undertones of Welsh a la Richard Burton and *all* the best voices ;)

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 01:50 PM

Ah if we're talking voices I have to mention Anthony Hopkins and Burton too......

No to Eastenders though, I live in London and it's like watching a web cam with sound. Glad he is still working, seem to recall he went through a sticky patch re health a few years ago.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 02:18 PM

Ahhh the voices, the voices!!!

Alan Rickman, Patrick Stewart...

Ahhh the bodies the bodies!!!

Hugh Jackman, Hugh Jackman (and Russell Crowe, but only in Gladiator)

This is fun!

..xx..e

PS-About Annette Funichello, she represented hope for all of us young girls waiting to hit puberty. I never made her measurements, but I looked at her breasts with a sigh surely as much as a lot of you fellas...just for different reasons.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 02:30 PM

Jeanie, I only recognised Alan Bates in your links. I don't get out to the movies often now, so maybe that is why.

I think part of what makes someone like Jones attractive is the intelligent look in his eye, that the imperfect features are more than compensated by the expressions. Viggo Mortenson (LOTR) is classically good looking, but sometimes that can be accompanied by a vacant personality. I don't know anything about him beyond the films to make him seem interesting. Connery has a lot of contradictions, and I haven't resolved all of them myself, but I've always found him very engaging on and off screen. If you want just a great bod, look at the Calvin Klein ads. (Do a search on "Bruce Weber" and you'll come across a whole bunch of those kinds of photos.)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: beadie
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 02:38 PM

Julie Newmar . . . in a short-lived sitcom called "My Living Doll." She appeared as a robot named AF701 . . . what a machine!   She also played later in the Adam West-Batman TV series as Catwoman.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Jeanie
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 02:42 PM

Stilly River Sage: they are all UKers, that's probably why you didn't recognize them, and some were photos from years past, and some more up-to-date. They were: Alan Rickman, Robert Lindsay, Hywel Bennett, Alan Bates, Neil Pearson and Martin Shaw. Ooooh.....

- jeanie

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,milk monitor
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 02:51 PM

and there's more...Daniel Day Lewis and Paul McGann. Are they going to age wonderfully or what.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Teresa
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 03:36 PM

In chronological order:

John Denver
Jacques Cousteau (yes, I know)
one of my teachers ...
Leonard Nimmoy
Stan Rogers
another one of my teachers ...
Patrick Stuart
Kathleen Ferrier (sp?) (the contralto singer of art songs)
Robert Silverberg
Ursula Le Guin
another SF writer or two
other folks ...

Oh, I have it bad, still. ;)

T

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 03:43 PM

Jeannie - I remember that Romeo and Juliet too! (well, just about - certainly Thora Hird as the Nurse...)

epn

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 03:58 PM

I've been a bit surprised that so many of the ladies who are enthalled by Viggo Mortenson had not bothered to learn his (rather distinctive) name.

The guy is certainly much more than just another pretty face; he seems to have worked very hard at developing his considerable intellectual and athletic talents as well. If you get a chance to watch the extra features on any of the LOTR DVDs, you'll see what an impressive job he did learning to swordfight and to perform most if not all of his stunts. He's also -- if I'm not mistaken -- a published poet and a serious painter (or maybe photographer -- ??).

Unfortunately for any of you with *serious* fantasies about him, this paragon of contemporary manhood is also, we are told, a model husband and father...

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 05:57 PM

Milk monitor, I'm so glad someone else fancies Paul McGann! Particularly in "The Monocled Mutineer". I would love a copy of that but it doesn't seem to be out on video.

Ms Lemon I have to agree about David Essex in his youth, but he looks AWFUL now! He certainly hasn't aged well. Davy Jones was always my favourite Monkee....cute or what!!!

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 06:11 PM

Jeanie, I recognize Rickman now that I go back and look at it. I've seen him in a few things, most recently Harry Potter, of course. He added incredible new possibilities and dimensions to the character of Snape!

PoppaGator, this has nothing to do with whether they're married or not. Heart throbs are probably best appreciated from afar. Thanks for expanding on Mortenson's character. It's nice to know he's more than just a pretty face!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 07:10 PM

Viggo Mortenson was also in 'Witness' the Harrison Ford thing with the little Amonite (I don't mean that but word has escaped me) boy who sees a murder...

I hate this memory loss thing.... it's a real... thingy.

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 07:14 PM

AMISH!!! It's Amish!! Thanks Cllr!

Well I was close, some of the letters are the same!

LTS - or Swiss Cheese Brain.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 07:41 PM

Unfortunately for any of you with *serious* fantasies about him, this paragon of contemporary manhood is also, we are told, a model husband and father...

Why do you think that would make a diference to people.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 09:10 PM

Amonite.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 09:13 PM

Whatever gets your rocks off.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 10:30 PM

Wow! That is beautiful, Stilly.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Midchuck
Date: 15 Oct 04 - 10:56 PM

When I posted to this thread before, I didn't mention (sigh...) Emmylou (or Harry M. Lewis, as someone on the bluegrass list called her), only because I thought we were talking about hearthrobs of adolescence or earlier, and I was pushing middle age by the time she put out her first solo record. Sorry, darling...

Peter.

PS: Are we talking only about real-world people for heartthrobs? Can I add Donya of the Hervar Kith? Miri Robertson? Eliza, Duchess of Arcachon-Qwghlm?

P.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 11:03 AM

There are no barriers to adulation, either of age or reality. I am passionately in love with Jamie Fraser from Diana Gabaldon's 'Outlander' books, and also Francis Crawford of Lymond from Cynthia Harrod-Eagles books.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 11:06 AM

Really, Poppagator, this is not about stalking the guy, fantasies know no bounds, which is why they are healthy.

I'd hate to think what life would be like if we couldn't at least imagine ourselves in different situations with people we may never meet (or even want to meet. I've had my illusions spoiled on more than one occasion).

I forgot about Viggo until he was mentioned. Another Swiss Cheese brain here...so keep offering up those fantasies folks.

HMPH! "Family man"....My first hearthrob was GAY!

..xx..e

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Metchosin
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 01:15 PM

talk about swiss cheese, I just remembered it was not Ed Byrnes of 77 Sunset Strip who was in North to Alaska, but Fabian. All the greasy comb, heart throbs of my childhood and early adolescence, seem to have morphed in my minds eye into one homogenous male smelling vaguely of Top Brass and Brylcream.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Metchosin
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 01:36 PM

I don't think I overcame grease as an aphrodisiac until I fell for the whispy blonde hair of Illya Kuryakin on The Man from UNCLE.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 05:56 PM

You mean as in "greasy hair"?

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 06:39 PM

My first 'heartthrob' was Miss Weeks... my third grade teacher. I didn't miss a day of school at Orinda Union that year... To this day I believe that I did pretty well on my IQ test because she smiled at me that morning...

Marianne... from Gilligan's Island

Linda Ronstadt, Julie Andrews, Sophia Loren, Liv Ullman, Liza Minnelli, Grace Kelly, Carly Simon, and of course those two Danes with javelins on the cover of one of the early 'Roxy Music' albums...

But it's no contest...

The Brittish sophistication, the graceful agility, and wry witty intelligence of Diana Riggs...

But come to think of it... maybe I was really secretly pining for Steed's Bently...

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 06:49 PM

Diana Rigg in a black jumpsuit was as good as it gets. Never mind about the bloody Bentley. :-)

I had the curious experience of knowing a younger relative of "Steed"'s for a few years. He looked quite similar to his famous uncle, Patrick MacNee, but was not in the least bit famous himself.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 06:59 PM

I've got to agree with you about the black jumpsuit Little Hawk... Now more than ever!

...but I'm having a terrible time getting the sleeves pulled over her sleek and shapely fenders... ;^)
ttr

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Metchosin
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 10:01 PM

of course greasy hair. You don't think one would have wasted all that Top Brass on a wheel bearing do you.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Metchosin
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 10:15 PM

Brylcream, a little dab'll do ya
Brylcream, you'll look so debonaire
Brylcream, the gals'll all pursue ya
They love to get their fingers in your hair!

In my case it was my nose, near hair. I once secretively liberated a comb as a momento from a sought object of my affections. I eventually realized that a whiff of his Top Brass impregnated comb was actually more of a turn on than he was.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 10:15 PM

SPLHCB

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 16 Oct 04 - 10:54 PM

Emma Peel. I remember envying her that great shape and wit.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 12:51 AM

Ouch!

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Amergin
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 01:47 AM

Janet Reno....

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Chris Green
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 09:34 AM

Julie Delpy in Before Sunrise (1995). I'm sure that film resulted in thousands of pimply adolescents buying Interail tickets and sitting on trains pretending to read existentialist novels in the hope that sophisticated witty and stunning French girls would offer to spend a night with them wandering around a romantic city discussing life, the universe and everything and then make tender sweet love with them under the stars while around them the city slept... Ahem. Anyway, I bought my Eurorail pass. And no, they didn't. :(

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: red_clay
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 03:04 PM

Candy Barr!!! yummy she was!!!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: RoyH (Burl)
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 04:45 PM

Gene Tierney, star of 'Laura'. To me as a teenager she was the most beautiful woman on the screen EVER. To me aged 71, she still is. Burl.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Bert
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 10:51 PM

Well at age 3 I was going to marry Vera Lynn.

Then at around 11 it was Petula Clark

later it was Leela (Louise Jameson)

Then recently it was Jane Seymour.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 11:36 PM

Gene Kelly. In one of his somewhat-lesser films, The Pirate, there is a scene where they are doing a big elaborate dance on a stage set like a ship. He is up in the rigging and does this leap from up high and holding a rope descends quickly toward the camera in a shot that emphasizes his physique and his crotch. He's wearing these great short shorts and has thigh muscles as sexy as anything you've ever seen in one of those Calvin Klein ads.

[sigh]

Patrick Swayze wasn't too shabby in Dirty Dancing, but still, Kelly was the one for me!

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: maire-aine
Date: 17 Oct 04 - 11:38 PM

Ronald Colman in THE PRISONER OF ZENDA! No, I'm not that old. I don't go back to 1937, but I saw it on TV when I was a kid. I fell hopelessly in love. Aaahh.

Maryanne

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Ellenpoly
Date: 18 Oct 04 - 05:26 AM

Ronald Colman, Montgomery Clift, Steward Granger, Marlon Brando...

I sometimes wonder how my life would have been without the movies, and without television.

I'm a huge reader, so it's not as if my imagination would have been bereft with no "real" faces to enter my psyche, but certainly my DREAMS might have been far less adventurous and romantic.

Just a thought..xx...e

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Oct 04 - 09:32 AM

Ronald Coleman in Random Harvest isn't bad, either, for the romantic cerebral type.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 18 Oct 04 - 09:41 AM

Romantic Cereberal type? ...what... is that some kind of new fangled font for the more satisfying word processor documents? ...; ^)

Do guys like that still exist?

;^) ttr

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 18 Oct 04 - 09:52 AM

Sometimes they're hinted at, other times they exist. For example, Sean Connery in Finding Forester was a sham--the movie suggested an intellectual character, but it was in fact a pathetic and quite patronizing screenplay and I wasn't impressed AT ALL. I remember reading a review of some movie that Charles Dance was in, and the reviewer said he was "the thinking woman's romantic actor" or something to that effect. It was an accurate observation. Those romantic intellectual characters won't necessarily be noticed by a lot of people. For example, Spencer Tracy in Desk Set--what does he have going for him EXCEPT his wit and intelligence? Otherwise he's an old fart. :) They're out there, but I have to get to work now, or I'd have time to think about a few more. I'm sure there are a few other perceptive women at Mudcat who can identify more of them. (TTR, are you thinking of applying for a job?)

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 18 Oct 04 - 10:05 AM

George Clooney
Sean Connery
Eammon Holmes
               Whoops! Given the game away there.....

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Thomas the Rhymer
Date: 18 Oct 04 - 10:11 AM

Huh? ...um, I have one I love! ...but there's always time for one more civil servant position... ;^)

ponderingly persistant, ttr

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,Bill of Bill'n'Ben fame
Date: 18 Oct 04 - 01:07 PM

AquaMarina from STINGRAY.A good looking girl with big eyes.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Gervase
Date: 19 Oct 04 - 05:06 AM

Ingrid Bergman! Gosh yes, even when I was very young she seemed to have an ethereal beauty about her. Definitely near the top of my heart-throb list.
I still get mercilessly teased after admitting once that I had an innocent crush on Julie Andrews. Or maybe not so innocent...
Alan Rickman (the sneering swine) seems to do it for my other half. And he's as much like me as chalk is to cheese.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,SueB
Date: 19 Oct 04 - 01:09 PM

I adored Spencer Tracy. Loved Fred Astaire, loved Roy Rogers, Cary Grant was dreamy, but Errol Flynn was the MOST. Wanted to be Greta Garbo desperately, but would have settled for being Katherine Hepburn. Of course they were all before my time, but I didn't have TV, never went to first run movies, and Boston had a great revival theatre for a couple of years that was cheap and showed all the oldies.   

I remember as an eight year old looking at a picture of Cat Stevens with his dark curly hair and feeling all breathless. Paul Newman and Robert Redford were all right, but Ryan O'Neal was cuter and sweeter. John Corbett from Northern Exposure still makes my heart go zing. And Russell Crowe. Mel Gibson could make me sweat until recently, when I realized he's batshit fucking nuts. What a turn-off. Slightly crazy is okay - I have a little bit of a thing for Mandy Patinkin (The Princess Bride) and Tony Shalhoub.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Janie
Date: 19 Oct 04 - 01:21 PM

Michael Landon as Little Joe on "Bonanza." Several of the cowboys on "Laramie." Clint Eastwood as Rowdy on "Rawhide" and whoever was the male lead in the Disney movie of the moment. When I was a kid, all the TV shows were either Westerns or Cops 'n Robbers. Never had a crush on any actors in the latter. Liked them cowboys!

And of course, what female hasn't pined for Paul Newman.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: MBSLynne
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 03:49 AM

Yeah SueB, it's a shame about Mel Gibson...with those twinkly eyes he ought to be every woman's dream, but a nutcase he certainly is...what a waste! Just goes to show that looks aren't everything I guess.

I just remembered, when I was about 14 there was a season of Frank Sinatra films on TV and I used to watch them with my Mum while my Dad was doing shift-work. I could easily understand why girls used to swoon over him, he was just sooooooo cute! He's still on my 'special' list I think.

Love Lynne

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 01:28 PM

I meant to offer this word of wisdom days ago, but got sidetracked: Hey, this is fantasy; you don't have to choose between Emma Peel and the Bentley; you can jump Emma Peels bones in the back of the Bentley.
And "breathes there a man with soul so dead" that he never thought about it...

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: frogprince
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 01:31 PM

On second thought, though, I don't know that Diana Riggs belongs on my list of HEART throbs; throbs, yes, but...

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Oct 04 - 01:39 PM

"He cocked his shining eye and said. . ."

. . .You can raise Monroe from the dead.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: el_punkoid_nouveau
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 12:14 PM

PS - I forgot to mention that the woman I used to want to marry (when I was errrrmmmm... probably about seven!) was Valerie Singleton!

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 12:38 PM

Down Shep!

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Don Firth
Date: 21 Oct 04 - 06:08 PM

I married well. But before that:—

At the age of thirteen or so, I fell madly in love with Elizabeth Taylor (she's a few months younger than I am) when I saw her as the doomed friend of a young Jane Eyre (Jane was played by Peggy Ann Garner in the 1944 movie), then in Lassie Come Home and National Velvet. My Gawd, she was a beautiful little girl! And then she growed up some!

Audrey Hepburn. Need I say more?

Diana Rigg, with or without the cat-suit. That was awhile back, but she just gets better.

By the way, has anybody seen a picture of Judi Dench when she was young? Here she is when she was in her twenties (she's the one wearing the tiara), and another at age thirty-three. Reminds me a lot of a girl I knew in high school. . . .

There are others less well known, but I can't supply photos because they're only in my memory.

(sigh)

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,Bobby Woolstrum
Date: 28 Aug 05 - 12:50 AM

No doubt about it - "I was, and still am, in love with Sandra Dee, even after her untimely death." I wasn't happy when she married Bobby Darin, but she did marry a "Bobby", and I thought he could sing, so I didn't really mind "that much!" My next heart-throb was Rosie Hamlin of Rosie and the Originals, who chimed "Angel Baby" in 1961. But my last is my present wife Nancy who I have been married to since 15 Apr 67. Don't know what, or how I would have survived all these years without her.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,Sidewinder.
Date: 28 Aug 05 - 01:33 AM

Ah!Those hazy crazy days when I went walking with Monroe while talking about Snow White.I remember Senta Berger and Raquel Welch stirring something within (and possibly without) and as someone previously mentioned the sweetest of them all ; Felicity Kendall, now there was a woman who would make any life "The Good Life".I also remember Elizabeth Sladen who appeared in Dr Who way back when and Caroline Munroe from the Navy Rum posters and Farrah Fawcett and Cheryl Ladd both real Angels. But the best of all has to be that Antipodean songstress who made several generations of gentlemen swoon and go all gaga the one and only Olivia Netron Bomb -Wowsers!

Regards.

Sidewinder.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Aug 05 - 02:05 AM

Hah! I just realized who Jacqui C reminded me of when I met her at the Getaway last year: Judith Dench. Thanks, Don.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Aug 05 - 02:26 AM

I was in love with some egotistical cheerleader type girl back in Junior High and High School. Her name was Pam Ford. She was voted the most popular girl in the 12th Grade yearbook. God only knows where she is now. We had little in common then, and probably a good deal less now. ;-)

Was in love with another girl named Allison back then too. She was a very intelligent girl, but was a Republican! Shocking. I'm afraid she got it from her parents somehow. Thus are the sins of the fathers passed on to their progeny, yea, even unto the 7th generation. ;-)

Most of the people in that town were Republicans, come to think of it. Skaneateles, New York: the bastion of McCarthyism, archconservatism, and just plain butt-headed ignorance. I left in '69, and returned to my true home the land of the Queen, the mounties, Pierre Trudeau, and maple syrup. Yahoo!

Bite me, Richard Nixon!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Aug 05 - 01:00 PM

Then there was Diane Powell. That was in 3rd grade. She too has vanished into the mists of time.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Firecat
Date: 28 Aug 05 - 06:11 PM

My first celebrity crushes were on Sam Chapman, keyboardist in North And South (90s pop group) and Stephen Gately from Boyzone. My first proper boyfriend was the spitting image of Sam.

My current crushes include, but are not limited to Sean Biggerstaff and Robbie Williams.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 28 Aug 05 - 06:38 PM

Sean Biggerstaff?????? LOL! That's just too good to be true...

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: kendall
Date: 28 Aug 05 - 09:24 PM

I've never had a heart throb as such, but I remember thinking of Marilyn Monroe, that I'd sleep with her if she asked me.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,Justin Case
Date: 28 Aug 05 - 09:25 PM

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Janie
Date: 28 Aug 05 - 11:05 PM

Round age 12 or 13--Michael Landon as Little Joe on Bonanza, and a guy who's name I forget who played Jessie on Laramie.

Paul Newman was, is and will be the sexiest man alive in my book. The older he gets, it just gets better.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Janie
Date: 28 Aug 05 - 11:07 PM

Don't know if I would have been so enamored of Little Joe without him having that pretty little Pinto he always rode.

Janie

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Big Mick
Date: 28 Aug 05 - 11:13 PM

Kate Hepburn when she was young.

Kate Hepburn when she was middle aged.

Kate Hepburn in her older years.

That woman, had looks, brains, and a very independent outlook on life. A little scary to some testosterone laden lads, but a red zone attractive in mine.

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Joe Offer
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 02:56 AM

Kathy Kayser
Kathy Kaiser
   and
Kathy Karver

I married the last of 'em, but it was a mistake. A 20-year mistake...

-Joe Offer, happily remarried-

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: kendall
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 08:13 AM

Kate Hepburn at any age. I'm more attracted to brains than boobs. Of course, if one has both, well....

What ever happened to Cleo Moore? She was a boon to the sweater industry.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 08:39 AM

Tuesday Weld from "Dobie Gillis"

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 08:42 AM

Thank you for the compliment Ebbie.

I was in love with Frankie Vaughan when I was eight but transferred my allegiance to Cliff Richard by the time I was ten. Then there was John Leyton.....

Eye candy - Hugh Jackman, Viggo Mortenson, Orlando Bloom (particularly in LOTR) and what about Donald Sutherland in Space Cowboys!

My abiding hearthrobs would have to be Tommy Lee Jones, George Harrison, Sean Connery, Patrick Stewart and Alan Rickman.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: LilyFestre
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 09:17 AM

During my teens, it was Billy Idol...the bad boy syndrome I suppose!

During my 20's, Patrick Swayze!!!!!!

Later in my 20's and still today..one incredibly handsome, amazingly intelligent, wildly talented Mr. LilyFestre!!!!

If I HAD to pick someone now, I'd have to say Trace Adkins...yep...but he definately runs in a far away second place from Mr. LilyFestre!


Michelle, aka Mrs. Lilyfestre

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 02:09 PM

KT

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 03:35 PM

Herga Kitty

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 05:20 PM

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Georgiansilver
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 05:24 PM

Francoise Hardy....the beautiful, if perhaps skinny, French singer who kissed me beside the river Seine (on my cheek but who cared at 14yrs)
Still listen to her records occasionally when I remember that day....Ahhhhhh.
Best wishes, Mike.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 05:48 PM

Good choice, GeorgianSilver! She is a lovely woman.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Firecat
Date: 29 Aug 05 - 05:58 PM

Little Hawk, what's so funny about Sean Biggerstaff's name?

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: kendall
Date: 30 Aug 05 - 07:38 PM

Is he related to Bigus Dickus?

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Little Hawk
Date: 30 Aug 05 - 07:57 PM

Ummm...well, never mind, Firecat. It's just my sense of humour, okay? Pay it no further mind.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Scoville
Date: 30 Aug 05 - 11:42 PM

My mother liked "Kooky" Burns and the kid who played the son on the "the Rifleman".

Another vote for Michael York (a little old for me, but there's definitely something to be said for a guy who ages well). We also like Ciaran Hinds.

Eye candy: Sean Bean

And the bass player for the Weary Boys has FABULOUS arms and shoulders. I love a stand-up bass. I could watch him all night; I don't even care what the rest of the band is doing.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,Sidewinder.
Date: 31 Aug 05 - 02:01 AM

Kendall he has a wife you know, Incontinentia -Incontinentia Buttocks.
I remember it well -Stwike him Centuwion!

Regards.

Sidewinder.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Dave'sWife
Date: 25 May 07 - 12:41 PM

When I was growing up in NYC in the 1970s, Shaun Cassidy was every girl's heartthrob. I had his picture on my wall for a month or two. He was starring in that TV show The Hardy Boys. I have a nice wish-fufillment fabntasy come true story about him - wanna hear? if not move along.

In 1994 I began dating my future husband seriosuly and it so happened his compoany was working with Shaun on a TV show called American Gothic. Dave takes me to the company Xmas party and there is Shaun with his lovely wife. I didn't recognize him at first but he certianly aged well. Looks like his dad, he does! (another famous heartthrob)minus the dastardly moustache of course. So I just had to ask him if he would dance with me and good sport that he was, he did, The DJ threatened to play 'Hey Deannie' but it was an idle threat since he certianly didn't have the record! FOlks took pix with disposbale cameras. I happened to look smashing that year myself in my size 6 Laura Ashley red plaid christmas coat dress shaped kind of like a irish Dancer's dress. And to make things better, I had my long red hair done in ringlets in an inverted pony tail just like a dancer. man, we were one good looking couple. (So were me and my future hubby, I still have that photo on my wall of me and him).

Anyway - I sent copies of the photo of me cutting rug with the Hardy Boy to all the girls from highschool. Funny, they didn't seem to be too impressed about Shaun. They were more impressed that I was wearing a size 6 dress. By 1994 they all had small kids and were still working on trying to get their figures back. So, the experience was fun but anti-climatic.

Courtesy of my husband's job I also got to dance with John Travolta on a fabulous dancefloor while the DJ played 'More than a Woman'. he, however, was a waaaay better dancer than I was. What a surprise. (not). He was a very good sport about the DJ trying to pull up songs from his films but left the floor with his wife when they got to Grease and 'Hopelessly devoted to you'. I dsay again, he is a fabulous dancer and when he dances with his wife, you feel like you ought not be there. They are a very lovely couple.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Wesley S
Date: 25 May 07 - 04:06 PM

Sam Elliot will be in a new movie coming out this December called The Golden Compass

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Dave'sWife
Date: 25 May 07 - 04:58 PM

SueB said:

>>Mel Gibson could make me sweat until recently, when I realized he's batshit fucking nuts. What a turn-of<<

you said it! And, all those years of hard drinking have left him looking pretty awful. Not to be mean, but every time I see his recent photos, I am reminded of aging orangatans. His once lovely blue eyes are all rheumy and gross. Ick.

Yes, you said it again, a young Cat Stevens with that dark curly hair was to die for. I inherited a bunch of his early albums from a next-door neighbor girl when I was 11 and my crush on him prompted me to take up the guitar again.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Alice
Date: 25 May 07 - 07:27 PM

When I was a teenager, my heart throbs were Herb Alpert (this guys in love with you) and Rowdy Yates in Rawhide (Clint Eastwood).

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: terrier
Date: 25 May 07 - 07:43 PM

'Lassie'

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Amergin
Date: 25 May 07 - 08:01 PM

Guest, Same Elliot was indeed in Quick and the Dead. He played the hero.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Mickey191
Date: 25 May 07 - 08:02 PM

Montgomery Clift was divine. Broke my heart when he passed. I then took up with Paul Newman. Hugh Jackman is in the backfield waiting.

Had a momentary thing for William Shatner after seeing him in "Suzy Wong." Had to give that up when I joined Mudcat.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: TRUBRIT
Date: 25 May 07 - 11:59 PM

Was Viggo Mortensen in Witness? That is one of my favorite films and have seen it many times but don't remember him, What role?

And then there is / was.......John Leyton, Dave Berry (sang the Crying Game - English), and Alan Rickman, and of course, there is always -- well, Alan Rickman .......

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 26 May 07 - 02:50 AM

There was a young actress in two early Elvis films " Lovin' You" and KIng Creole" who I thought was terrific. She was very sweet looking. I believe she later became a nun. Could that be correct?

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: jacqui.c
Date: 26 May 07 - 07:02 AM

TRUBRIT - I'd forgotten John Leyton - how could I do that?!

I saw him live at the Granada in Edmonton - he came dashing out the stage door to go do another gig and my friend, Bernadette, had managed to sneak into his waiting car. They stopped and chucked her out just down the hill but not before she snagged his make up towel.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: JennyO
Date: 26 May 07 - 10:46 AM

Tunesmith, you are quite correct. The lady in question was Dolores Hart, and she did later become a nun. More info here.

Elvis was one of my first heart throbs, when I was 14. There were a whole series of them over a few years. I'll think of them all when I have time, but quite a few of them were in TV shows.

Of course, once I had a real boyfriend, the "heart throbs" sorta took a back seat.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 26 May 07 - 11:31 AM

Pat Driscoll - Lady Marian in Robin Hood
Helen Shapiro - bought her autobiography off the red cross trollley last week - a signed edition! Now come the signed editions - too many, too late!
Capucine in Song Without End
Susan Maugham - Bobby's girl (saw her gig a couple of years ago on a Waner Break)

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Becca72
Date: 26 May 07 - 12:53 PM

My first heart throbs were Shaun Cassidy (Dave'sWife, I LOVED your story!), Parker Stevenson, John Schneider (Bo Duke), John Taylor (of Duran Duran) and Kiefer Sutherland (still a total hottie but never sexier than in The Lost Boys).

Now that I've grown up a bit I can also add Sean Connery, Sam Elliot, George Clooney, Mel Gibson and one I didn't seen mentioned yet though I might have missed him, Hugh Grant. I realize poor Hugh plays the same character in every one of his movies, but he's just so damned CUTE!!!

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: kendall
Date: 26 May 07 - 02:03 PM

Back then, Grace Kelly
Today, Kirsty Alley.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,Dani
Date: 26 May 07 - 02:49 PM

Well, Sean Connery for sure. George Clooney's an easy one.

Back then? Parker Stevenson had it ALL OVER Shawn Cassidy if you ask me. 4th Grade?

Johnny Depp is currently at the top of my list, celebrity-wise. In real life, well.....

Dani

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Ebbie
Date: 26 May 07 - 03:44 PM

Thanks for the 'Amonite' laugh, LtS. The Amish would get a big kick out of that.

Waylon Jennings- even when I was madly in love real time, Waylon still made my heart burn.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,quasimodo
Date: 27 May 07 - 07:55 AM

definately anne widicombe

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Alice
Date: 27 May 07 - 07:16 PM

Kirsty Alley? Kendall, I'm trying to figure out what is appealing about Kirsty Alley. Enlighten us, please.
(I keep remembering her Christmas time promos of Scientology to children, and that takes all the appeal away.)

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: kendall
Date: 27 May 07 - 07:45 PM

I was not considering her politics or religion.
She is a large well formed woman with a lot of sex appeal.

It's impossible for some of us to understand the attraction that others have posted. For instance, Elvis. All I see there is (was) a cow eyed geek.

Now, Sean Connery, that's a horse of a different color. He is a man's man.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Alice
Date: 27 May 07 - 09:19 PM

I agree that Kirstie has that kind of formidable animal magnetism in the way she looks and her facial expressions.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Alice
Date: 27 May 07 - 09:20 PM

I've never understood the appeal of Elvis. Eeeww. Neither man nor music.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Alice
Date: 27 May 07 - 09:23 PM

I remember watching Rawhide with my oldest sister and discussing why I liked Clint Eastwood and she liked the guy who played the trail boss. She thought Rowdy Yates was too much of a pretty boy and the trailboss was more manly. After all these years of Clint Eastwood movies... I should ask her what she thinks of him now.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 28 May 07 - 03:57 AM

Because of the "soft" character Clint Eastwood played in Rawhide, a friend of mine has never been able to accept him as a "toughie". The guy who played the trail boss was Eric Flemming and he, by contrast, was macho with a vengence; unfortunatley, he drowned while making a film in South America back in the 1960s.

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: 3refs
Date: 28 May 07 - 10:02 AM

Russell Crow was in The Quick and The Dead, not Sam Elliot!

Subject: RE: BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 May 07 - 11:37 AM

Clearly, some of you need to explore the site Internet Movie Database. This is the go-to site to answer all of these questions. Look at the line in the header called "Search." First select "Titles" then fill in "The Quick and the Dead" and you'll get a results page that says there are THREE films of that name. 1995 had Russell Crowe, Sharon Stone, etc. A TV movie in 1987 had a pretty good cast also--Sam Elliott, Tom Conti, Kate Capshaw, etc. In 1963 a film by that bane was made with few folks I recognize (except Majel Barrett, aka Nurse Chapel, Mrs. Roddenberry). The name may be a coincidence.

Anyway, since I last posted to this list, I have had the pleasure of discovering a very talented but still quite obscure British actor named Stephen Dillane. The man is a chameleon, in every role he is so different that I think people don't recognize him from one film to the next (contrary to someone like Hugh Grant, who plays himself in every film he encounters). And he's primarily a stage actor, taking film jobs for money. Alas, his one-man tour de force Macbeth has finished stage performances, his 2000 Tony winning role in Stoppard's The Real Thing has ended, but he will be doing Hamlet in early 2008 in Brooklyn and London. Meanwhile, his more mainstream films include The Hours, Welcome to Sarajevo and The Greatest Game Ever Played. (I first found him in the 1997 film Firelight, but unless you're an English major, a reader of 19th century British lit, and a very careful listener to film dialog, you may not appreciate the full range of this story. It's as if Thomas Hardy wrote a story in which Jane Eyre meets The French Lieutenant's Woman).

SRS