Cutest Little Guy in the WorldWhat? You’ve never heard of Bixby Key Fedderly… you are so last week! This handsome little fella, 7 lbs and 11 ounces, 20.5 inches long, born Saturday Feb 27th at 5:21pm is my brand new, perfect nephew. He’s got the softest chubby cheeks in the world and is totally chill.
I am so proud of my sister who (sans epidural) had the little guy out within just a few hours at the hospital. I plan to be the greatest auntie in the world!!
Smooth Voiced TrumpeterThere has never been a better poster child for why not to do drugs than Chet Baker. The man, who once rivaled James Dean in pure handsome/pretty manliness fell hard. Still, the legendary portraits of the once popular crooner and trumpeter show (falsely) the face of an angel, a dream, an ideal.
See this week’s album pick, My Funny Valentine, to hear the amazing voice that accompanies the face.
Wizardly WonderNot every studio session musician gains fame, no matter how prolific, but not every studio musician is a fine looking hipster wizard that can sport a top hat with dignity. See below/after the jump for several of Leon Russell’s finest looks.
Oh LordieMost of the born again Christians I know would probably love the idea of Jesus being played by a good old Texan… but does he have to be such a damn hippie? Well, Ted Neeley, who has gained fame from the film and stage versions of Jesus Christ Superstar, is also a drummer, composer, and record producer.
He’s certainly my favorite depiction of the lord’s child, no offense Caviezel and Dafoe.
Illogically Attractive, SirI’ve never been into Star Trek, but I enjoyed the latest movie much more than I expected. Even more unexpectedly, I found myself totally understanding Uhura’s need to love and kiss all over Spock – even if, I assume, it would almost be like dating someone with autism. When I thought about it more, it’s not even necessarily the strangely appealing Quinto that’s the allure, (though I am beginning to think I’m developing a thing for wildly heavy eyebrows) but perhaps it’s the ears, the logic, and the brow – because if you go back and take another peak at Nimoy’s younger days in the blue suit, you may find him just as lovable as I do.
Sure, I loved Fifteen; it was no Swan's Crossing or Degrassi, but is was excellent as far as teen stereotype driven melodramas go… I loved watching the sagas of Matt, torn between basketball and alcohol; his girlfriend Ashley (Laura Harris of my husband's dearly missed Women's Murder Club), who spoke as if she were on the verge of tears all the time; total bitch Brooke, hell bent on destroying the happiness of others; and Dylan, the cool guy with the leather jacket and the serious attitude… but that pig-faced little kid Billy Simpson, he was never my favorite.
Years later, that pig-faced kid is a pig-faced man, only now he's Van Wilder, and women are in love with his hunky body. Sure, he might be one of Hollywood's most commercially viable leading men (he was fine in Adventureland) and married to the gorgeous Scar Jo, but he'll always be Billy Simpson to me and, even worse, he reminds me too much of Dane Cook in the face to qualify as a hunk.
I actually feel kind of guilty disparaging someone who doesn't seem all that bad… I'm sure he's a nice person(?), but I simply cannot abide his status as a hunk.
I've got to admit that I was a little embarrassed to find Eli Roth so irresistibly and rather inexplicably cute in Inglourious Basterds – not because he was playing a head-bashing 'Bear Jew', but because he's behind the revolting torture franchise, Hostel.?/p>
As a long-time fan of horror films, I have to say that I've just never gotten on the relatively recent torture bandwagon and greatly prefer other sub-genres and wish the fad would give way to better stuff (see this week's movie pick). And I never trust any dude with a vigorous and vainglorious daily muscle-man work-out routine.
Still, one can't always expect good taste to go with good looks.
Even though I have yet to dine at any of Dan Barber's highly recommended restaurants (Blue Hill and Blue Hill at Stone Barns) it's still okay for me to have a nerdy foodie crush on the man who shone a spotlight on “community-based food production and enjoyment”. Plus, he kind of reminds me of the beatnik babe Michael Fitzsimmons in Peggy Sue Got Married – even down to the mutual interest in raising chickens.
If you were like me, you may not know the first thing about professional ski racing in the 1960's?but I am about to tell you the first thing about professional ski racing in the 1960's: Jean Claude Killy ruled it and was stunningly handsome. Now we know.
The MarquisUnless you indulge in as much BBC programming as I do, the lovely face of Paterson Joseph may not be entirely familiar to you – but let me tell you, he’s about as ubiquitous across the pond as this guy is stateside. Trial and Retribution, Peep Show, Dr Who, Murphy’s Law, Waking the Dead, and now even the No 1 Ladies Detective Agency!
Jim and I always refer to him as the Marquis, after his role in Neverwhere, which introduced us to the debonair thespian.
Wild ManFearless, crazy, talented, and bold, Dennis Hopper was the face of a new kind of masculinity – wild and free and unconventional and it’s so sad to hear that he’s losing his battle with cancer. Sure, he became the face of retirement savings and the new Republican Party, but before the white hair and suits he was the drug-eyed original Easy Rider, the nitrous oxide madman who made our skin crawl in Blue Velvet.
Below/after the jump are some favorite Hopper moments and looks. Here’s to you Dennis, who will surely achieve his goal:
“Like all artists I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.”
Based on his incredible body of work, one might not expect Roy Lichtenstein to be such an aristocratic looking silver fox, but a fox he was! Those deep eyes that tell you he reads more intelligent newspapers than you, that jawbone that lets you know that he’s tasted finer wine than you could dream of, and those cable knit sweaters that prove that he’s not afraid to indulge his good taste. Of course, this is all speculative, he was also known to have a grand sense of humor telling interviewers, “that he wanted to make an art so despicable that no one would hang it” and ”I wouldn’t believe anything I tell you.” A lovely man.
Dengue Fever’s lead singerWe saw Dengue Fever at South Paw a few months ago and I was blown away. Not only is musical mastermind Zac Holtzman’s beard absolutely amazing, singer Chhom Nimol is totally adorable!
A few more photos, culled from Flickr, are below/after the jump.
Street Style Blog of the Hip and AttractiveBackyard Bill is a street style blog featuring the kind of fashionable, hip young men and women that make the world a more aesthetically pleasing place… or at least the world of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Prepare to sigh over all the effortless beauty.
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Here's what I wrote on January 19th:
They are charming, sharp, handsome, hilarious, British, amiable, neatly dressed and likely a bit of a handful.?Altogether quite my cup of tea.?I think it unfair to put here preference for one over another, so I represent them collectively as they are my earliest, enduring crush.
RUNNERS UP:
Idris Elba
Sam Elliott
Danny McBride
Warren William
Mr Darcy
Joe Dallesandro
When a drugged-up Dennis hopper calls a man crazy, what level of insanity must that man be existing on? Apparently the level where you're setting yourself on fire and falling backwards off a cliff into jagged, rocky waters below?and surviving.
This anecdote comes from Not Quite Hollywood, a decent doc about the overlooked exploitation movies from Australia in the seventies. The man spoken of is the great Grant Page, stuntman extraordinare who has survived more insane feats than anyone one should; it's pretty awesome.
It may be one of my weirder quirks, but I've always found Bryan Cranston (Malcolm's dad) to be extremely sexy, even though his fatherly over-horniness kind of stranged me out, and I've yet to enjoy an episode of Breaking Bad.
If you don't recognize him from either of those shows his face should still be familiar as he's appeared in almost every popular series since the '80s including CHiPS, Falcon Crest, Baywatch, Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Seinfeld, X-Files, and V.I.P.
Recipes of the week: Homemade Pizza Dough and Exquisite Pizza Sauce
