BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?

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