So I put the question to you: who’s hot? By any metrics of hotness you wish to use.
With the caveat that hotness with me and actors is more of an abstract standard than a direct experience, because I was thinking about Singin' in the Rain (1952) recently: Donald O'Connor as Cosmo Brown has been one of my idols since childbirth and if you can't appreciate Cyd Charisse you are probably dead.
Being of a literal frame of mind, my first thought was the anthropomorphic personification of the star Sirius, from Diana Wynne Jones's novel Dogsbody. He's smokin'... or at least the objects in his immediate vicinity are.
As a letch and voyeur of many years standing I, of course, have very definite opinions on this matter. In this matter it is important to distinguish between the many kinds of hawtness:
1 - "The cuteness! It burns!": The current Queen Of Kawaii is Jenna Coleman succeeding Apollo Smile who succeeded Judy Strangis. 2 - Those Dulcet Tones: No one beats the Old Time Radio Femme Fatales for aural sex appeal. I favour the vibrato of Lesley Woods but there is something to be said for the blondeness of Sylvia Picker. 3 - The piping hotness of preposterous proportions which makes the Tex Avery Wolf's head catch on fire whilst his tongue rolls out across the floor: The current Queen of Curvaceousness is Denise Milani succeeding Betty Brosmer (whose shape founded "Shape" magazine). 4 - Those who reduce all the males in their realm to heaps of smoking man meat: Ava Gardner who was married to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra in addition to her affairs with (to mention just a few) Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, David Niven, Robert Walker, John Huston, Peter Lawford, Howard Duff, Robert Mitchum, and -of course - Howard Hughes. Mitchum actually called Hughes to ask permission to sleep with her. "If you don't," Hughes replied, "they'll think you're a pansy." There is also the Empress Wu Zetian for whom the phrase "Dragon Queen" was coined. The only woman to openly sit on the Dragon Throne of China. The "smoking heaps of meat" refers to both her sexual prowess (founder of the Imperial Phoenix Institute of Bonking" and the results of her various military and political campaigns. 5 - The sizzling strut and the spicy slink. There is, of course , the aforementioned Cyd Charisse. Honourable Mention for Rosario Dawson's dance in "Clerks 2". 6 - Polymaths - Julie Newmar excelled in categories 2, 3 and 5. It was a stroke of genius to showcase Batman's superhuman will power in the original Batman TV show by having him resist the advances of her Catwoman. And of course there is the Immortal Bettie Page!
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Date: 2019-11-21 05:54 pm (UTC)From:With the caveat that hotness with me and actors is more of an abstract standard than a direct experience, because I was thinking about Singin' in the Rain (1952) recently: Donald O'Connor as Cosmo Brown has been one of my idols since childbirth and if you can't appreciate Cyd Charisse you are probably dead.
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Date: 2019-11-25 10:34 am (UTC)From:1 - "The cuteness! It burns!": The current Queen Of Kawaii is Jenna Coleman succeeding Apollo Smile who succeeded Judy Strangis.
2 - Those Dulcet Tones: No one beats the Old Time Radio Femme Fatales for aural sex appeal. I favour the vibrato of Lesley Woods but there is something to be said for the blondeness of Sylvia Picker.
3 - The piping hotness of preposterous proportions which makes the Tex Avery Wolf's head catch on fire whilst his tongue rolls out across the floor: The current Queen of Curvaceousness is Denise Milani succeeding Betty Brosmer (whose shape founded "Shape" magazine).
4 - Those who reduce all the males in their realm to heaps of smoking man meat: Ava Gardner who was married to Mickey Rooney, Artie Shaw and Frank Sinatra in addition to her affairs with (to mention just a few) Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, David Niven, Robert Walker, John Huston, Peter Lawford, Howard Duff, Robert Mitchum, and -of course - Howard Hughes. Mitchum actually called Hughes to ask permission to sleep with her. "If you don't," Hughes replied, "they'll think you're a pansy."
There is also the Empress Wu Zetian for whom the phrase "Dragon Queen" was coined. The only woman to openly sit on the Dragon Throne of China. The "smoking heaps of meat" refers to both her sexual prowess (founder of the Imperial Phoenix Institute of Bonking" and the results of her various military and political campaigns.
5 - The sizzling strut and the spicy slink. There is, of course , the aforementioned Cyd Charisse. Honourable Mention for Rosario Dawson's dance in "Clerks 2".
6 - Polymaths - Julie Newmar excelled in categories 2, 3 and 5. It was a stroke of genius to showcase Batman's superhuman will power in the original Batman TV show by having him resist the advances of her Catwoman. And of course there is the Immortal Bettie Page!