BS: Who were your 'heart throbs'?

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.