With thanks to my supply man, Doug.
UPDATE: Here's a video called "I'm Too Sexy" sent by Susan S. showing pictures of many of the male movie stars from the olden days when they were young and beautiful. Well, there are a couple that I wouldn't exactly call beautiful. I named every one, which dates me a little.
Oh geez, I will NEVER live this down.
ReplyDeleteWell, I still think Richard Gere cleans up pretty good, but you know those paparazzi, they is only looking for the worst possible time to take the pics, as that is what sells!
ReplyDeleteOh. My. Goodness.
ReplyDeleteI don't know whether to be encouraged or challenged.
ReplyDeleteJane, don't say I never did nothin' for ya.
ReplyDeleteSusan, Richard Gere never did it for me. He was kinda cute in "An Officer and a Gentleman", but he's not my type.
RB, is that all you have to say?
Johnieb, send me a picture of you in a swim suit, and I will post it for the pleasure of many of my visitors. We'll let you know whether to be challenged or encouraged.
Thanks, Grandmère, I'm feeling better about myself after that. But I ain't posing for no swim photos.
ReplyDeletePaul, I was thinking of putting a photo post together which included my male blog friends who are beyond their first youth, shall we say, to show that they truly ARE aging gracefully. I suppose that I'll have to scratch you off my list.
ReplyDeleteI can testify that Paul is aging gracefully and charmingly.
ReplyDeletePlus, he is fun to eat Thai food with.
I miss Gregory Peck.
ReplyDeleteSussanKay, I'm not the least surprised to hear that. Does he have good table manners when he eats his Thai food?
ReplyDeleteMary Clara, I'd say that I miss Rudolph Valentino, but that wouldn't be true. Even I'm not that old. I'm trying to think of one of the older guys whose pictures I would go out of my way to see, but I'm coming up dry. Maybe William Holden. It seems to me that he had a nice body. I liked Cary Grant, too, so cool and sophisticated.
I'm not that old either, Mimi. Yes, William Holden had a certain something.
ReplyDeleteThe thing is, though, Gregory Peck and William Holden didn't need to take their clothes off to knock us out.
Actually, since we started off on the earlier thread talking about politicians, here is my vote for the all-round sexiest elder statesman, worldwide, in the 20th century:
Jawaharlal Nehru.
I saw him when he was an old man, not long before he died, and he was right up there with Gregory Peck.
I am sure he never went out in public bare-chested. Part of his charm lay in his impeccable dress, the flawlessly tailored white silk achkan and churidar and the red rose in his buttonhole ... oh, my. And though he was known to be fond of ladies, there would be no question of kisses, even of the airy or cheek variety. A proper distance would be kept, and a namaste exchanged. It gives me the giggles, thinking of the contrast between him (and the setting in Delhi) and your Governor Edwards and the scene in Louisiana!
Lovely table manners. And Molly the WonderDog was quite taken with him as well when he came to visit her.
ReplyDeleteMary Clara, Nehru had that certain something that certain men from India seem to specialize in. Unfortunately, our present governor in Louisiana didn't get it.
ReplyDeleteWell, SusanKay, if Molly liked Paul, then nothing more needs to be said.
Oh, yes, Gregory Peck, esp. in "To Kill a Mockingbird" or "Arabesque".
ReplyDeleteAnd Steve McQueen. I saw "The Magnificent Seven" when I was 12, and I don't think I've ever recovered. On a horse or a motorcycle.
oh, Gregory Peck!
ReplyDeleteYou never know what you're going to get here, Mimi. You had my heart going there.
Actually (and very few people know this) I am a tremendous fan of James Garner.
Mimi,
ReplyDeleteI haven't even been in a swimsuit for over a decade, and for good reason: aint been nuthin graceful about it.
I shoulda seized the moment last July, but now I got months of work before anybody endures the sight of bare JohnieB
My dear friend will be 59 next month--and, so far, has run 18 marathons. Use your imagination about how he looks...it won't come even close to the reality.
ReplyDeleteI'm all about an older man. ;-)
Diane, yes, James Garner too. From "The Great Escape" right through "Space Cowboys". Actually, "Space Cowboys" really pissed me off -- my son asked why, and I said, "All four of them are geezers now, and they still all do it for me."
ReplyDeleteBut, especially in "The Great Escape" he was gorgeous. And Steve McQueen was in that one too.
Susankay, you are being very gracious and I thank you. Molly the Wonder Dog is a total sweetheart too.
ReplyDeleteI'm still keeping my clothes on.
And I totally trust the judgment of dogs.
Haven't I stirred up the ladies here? We're all a-twitter, my friends. Gregory Peck! William Holden! Steve McQueen! Diane's secret love, James Garner! and Doxy's real life love who runs marathons and is so handsome that we can't even imagine him! And last, but not least, Johnieb and Paul! Swim suit or not, Johnieb and Paul, you're in!
ReplyDeleteGrandmere, here's a man who apparently is refusing to age gracefully. He's a priest, yet. An Episcopal priest.
ReplyDeletehttp://sewaneepurple.com/features/14#more-14
Gregory Peck... Swoon...
ReplyDeleteLook what I found. This is the best use of this song I've ever seen. Sorry I can't make it clickable....
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcFDPUNX11U
Mimi, LOL! Yes, Bobby Jindal must have been hiding behind the door when they passed out that certain je ne sais quoi. Another comparison that evokes the giggles: Bobby Jindal :: Jawaharlal Nehru.
ReplyDeleteKishnevi, the Sewanee article is hilarious. Southern frat boys seem to live in a world of their own, in which nobody grows up.
Susan S, the video is too wonderful! Yes, finally the perfect pictures to go with that fabulous song. Let us now give thanks for Dana Andrews, Kirk Douglas, Cary Grant, Montgomery Clift, Jimmy Stewart, Humphrey Bogart, James Garner, Steve McQueen, Marlon Brando (who, shall we say, did not exactly age gracefully, but still...), and James Dean (who didn't stick around to grow old) -- and for Doxy's sweetheart and our own inspiring gentlemen here in Wounded Birdland.
Kishnevi, thanks. Too funny. I'm still shaking my head at the frat boys, especially the not-aging-gracefully Episcopal priest.
ReplyDeleteMimi--I confess that I had had a rather large glass of Zinfandel when I posted that last night. I'm rather embarrassed this morning.
ReplyDeleteBut it was still true. ;-)
Oh, Doxy, what fun! Don't be embarrassed. As you said, "But it was still true." Truth is what we're all about here.
ReplyDeleteSusan, here's how you do that:
ReplyDelete< a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcFDPUNX11U" > link < /a >
Remove the spaces around the brackets, and you get this: link
(There's a space between a href. Everything else runs together.)
ReplyDeleteMary Clara, I went to a good ole Southern school. In fact, two of them, and the frat boys were never this hilarious. (Well, maybe it was the fact that half of the frat boys were from up north that dampened the hilarity.) The Southern frat boys were best known for dressing up once a year in Confederate uniforms and having a ball in downtown Atlanta. (Although, to their credit, the same chapter was the first frat on campus to actively recruit a black member. Older alumni were incredulous, but IIRC he too donned the Confederate uniform when it came time for the annual ball.) That was late '70s. Don't know if the tradition still continues.
ReplyDeleteGrandmere et al--I should have given appropriate credit to Radley Balko's blog. I hope you read it already. (http://www.theagitator.com) although it's not quite so amusing most of the time. Mr. Balko was most taken with the goat.
Kishnevi, I did read it. There's more than one fraternity that does the Confederate uniform dress-up.
ReplyDeleteAt SMU it was the Kappa Alphas that were still living in the Confederacy. I think that was more than just a local phenomenon.
ReplyDeleteMary Clara, in these parts, it's Kappa Alpha, too.
ReplyDeleteLate to this party- but loving it anyway!!
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