Passing the torch
Irène Jacob turned 40 on Saturday. Famke Janssen is 40, too. Lena Olin is 51. All the hottest actresses in Hollywood are over 40 now.
No big deal? You must not mind getting old as much as I do. Our fantasy women get older as we get older. Bummer.
So maybe it’s time for a new generation. Christina Hendricks, A.J. Cook, Morena Baccarin, Michelle Williams (thinking of the Oscars here), and Keira Knightley are all ‘78ers or later. Long may they live, and never get older than I.
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July 20th, 2006 at 4:50 pm
‘80, ‘81, and, OK, one that’s just slightly older than you, ‘77.
Another ‘81, here’s a ‘78er, ‘75 ain’t totally out of your league. Yes, older women are hot (you missed one. But there are plenty of very attractive young women out there now… the list goes on, and on, and on.
July 20th, 2006 at 4:52 pm
J. Alba was the one I obviously didn’t close the tag on (if you know what I mean).
July 20th, 2006 at 5:00 pm
Also, the one I said you forgot, you, uh, didn’t. Forget.
July 20th, 2006 at 6:23 pm
If I can extend my boundaries by a couple years, as you suggest, Amy Acker. Leaving out Natalie was an obvious oversight, as was Jessica Alba, although the latter is an airhead, I’m told. Kristen Bell? Not so much for me. I know she was your classmate and all, but…
July 20th, 2006 at 11:47 pm
I know that this is going to sound utterly, utterly perverted, but Natalie Portman has gotten progressively less capable of holding my interest with each film after The Professional. She’s inoffensively bland, not unpleasant to look at, but not really captivating either. I feel as though I could sit comfortably in a room with her and not be intimidated by her looks or sexual presence (and I’m easily intimidated).
Also, the two women ever to leave me speechless with their beauty and charm were both actresses over 40.
July 21st, 2006 at 12:44 am
No, Mike, I think it’s safe to say that (1) every grown man who saw The Professional found Natalie sexy and (2) every grown man feels really, really weird about this. Personally, I’m not too into her dead-eyed delivery in the Star Wars movies. The script sucked, but she could have at least tried. Or, in wiser words than I could come up with: “Hold me, like you did by the lake on Naboo.”
I think I mentioned to Dave one time that Keira Knightley is better at being Natalie Portman than Natalie Portman is.
July 21st, 2006 at 9:52 am
To be perfectly fair, I wasn’t really more than a year or two older than her when The Professional came out. And given that, in Star Wars, she plays a grown-ass woman who falls in love with a ten year old boy, I guess I can’t complain too much.
I thank God that I missed that “lake on Naboo” line (never saw Episode II, and only saw a grand total of ten minutes of EpisodeIII).
July 21st, 2006 at 10:23 am
My contributions…
Sibel Kekilli was born in ‘80. She doesn’t really look good in photographs; you need to see her move. Head On was the hottest film I’ve seen in years.
In the “what the Hell happened to Carrie Henn” catagory, I would argue that Judith Vittet (born in 1986, which would make her twenty years old today) has probably grown into a heart-rendingly beautiful young woman. Unfortunately, I can’t find any mention of her post-1997, so I’ll never know.
I lust for Grace Park (’79, baby!). Hot chicks with guns! Boo-yah!
Oh, Kerry Condon, you justify the existence of 1983 (Rome is filled with people that I find incredibly attractive, often the men more than the women).
That’s all for now, but it’s a good start.
August 8th, 2006 at 5:11 pm
Evangeline Lilly.
August 12th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Kelly Brook.
August 31st, 2006 at 3:35 pm
Summer Glau. Brandy Heidrick.
April 9th, 2007 at 1:12 am
Joanne Kelly.
April 23rd, 2007 at 5:40 pm
girl indian kissing…
Features of girl indian kissing….
April 24th, 2007 at 12:48 pm
Oddly, that comment kind of fits. I’m leaving it for now.
July 12th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
Kristanna Loken (yow).
July 22nd, 2007 at 5:10 pm
Tania Raymonde
August 8th, 2007 at 12:48 am
Just started watching “Jericho”. So, Sprague Grayden. And, comfortingly, Candace Bailey is profoundly not jailbait, being 25 years old if IMDB is to be believed. She plays a sixteen-year-old, the love interest of a boy played by a man six years her junior in real life.
That’s a really bad picture of Ms. Grayden (on the left).
October 29th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
Lucy Hale. w00t! Not being jailbait: mega-w00t.
October 29th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
OK, the one I’ve been postponing. The new Battlestar Galactica. Katee Sackhoff, while reasonably pretty, is going to win an Oscar some day, and that makes her ultra-hot. Kandyse McClure: hot, and good American accent. Tricia Helfer? Older than me, but OH MY GOD. But everyone goes nuts over Grace Park. Does nothing for me, except maybe when she’s in peril. I have actually been accused of racism for not finding her hot. I’d do Jamie Bamber, Alessandro Juliani, and James Callis first (all probably older than I.)
November 15th, 2007 at 10:43 am
Sarah Roemer
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February 10th, 2008 at 7:36 pm
Olivia Wilde, who is so overdue for addition to the list: