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because comedy really does make weird-looking men more attractive, i think

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

not that attractiveness is the goal for him, or anyone. or maybe it is.

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:09 (seventeen years ago) link

not that attractiveness is the goal for him, or anyone. or maybe it is.

Probably on most people's Top 5, I'd wager.

― lurker #2421 (lurker #2421.1), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:11 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, true, v true

also in comedy-making-people-more-attractive zone:
jack black - seriously now, dude is starring opposite kate winslet, hottest beautiful woman in the world, probably?
owen wilson
vince vaugn
jerry seinfeld (?)
chris rock

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link

Sorry, what did you say? I couldn't hear you over the hair dryer. (XP)

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:15 (seventeen years ago) link

Jerry Seinfeld had the quote(or at least, Conan attributed it to him) that nobody who thinks that they're good-looking is funny.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link

that's pretty otm

― impermanent rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:18 (seventeen years ago) link

Not true! Baltar! In season 1, at least. He is funny despite himself, though.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link

Is Joan Cusack handsome?

― milo (milo), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

no. Allison Janney is handsome.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:20 (seventeen years ago) link

handsome/rugged = Josh Homme or mebbe Hugh Laurie?
pretty boy = Adrian Brody (almost typed Adrian Belew, ack!)
sexy = ...all I can think of is my fiance
hot = Buster Keaton
cute = Bud Cort back in the day

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:26 (seventeen years ago) link

I think the Sarah Silverman fetish that I don't understand has the comedy madness factor.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:27 (seventeen years ago) link

she's much hotter than she is funny. but I have the hate.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Actually I think SS is beautiful! So haughty...until mouth opens.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:28 (seventeen years ago) link

She's gorgeous and the first time I ever saw her was on 'Greg the Bunny' where she wasn't particularly funny. She is most decidedly not cute, however.

― Michael White (Miguelito), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:30 (seventeen years ago) link

How would you characterize Laurie Anderson? There's something "cute" about her -- short spiky hair, moon face, dimples, playfulness -- and she can definitely take on an angelic mien:

http://www.maths.lth.se/matematiklu/personal/apas/laurie/laurie1.gif

But she's also got those biceps and a piercing stare, which gives her a certain fierceness:

http://estiej.webpark.pl/images/laurie_anderson.jpg

Then again, sometimes she just looks like Tim Robbins:

http://c250.columbia.edu/Images/c250_celebrates/remarkable_columbians/bio_images_big/laurie-anderson-2.jpg

At any rate, I find her immensely compelling.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:31 (seventeen years ago) link

Yeesh, really? I don't find her very attractive at all, certainly not on a purely physical basis. Way too horsey for my taste.

Laurie Anderson's got something, but not my thing.

― lurker #2421 (lurker #2421.1), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

omg, Tim Robbins! Tim Robbins is where cute and hot intersect!

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:32 (seventeen years ago) link

Thing is, it has to do with whether the guy(we'll use guys here) thinks he's hot shit or not, not whether he actually is or not.

Attractive people don't need to develop attractive personalities, to put it another way.

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link

(that first line was an xpost about Sarah Silverman)

xpost also the problem with using famous men as an example is that we get into Kissinger territory here, which complicates matters.

― lurker #2421 (lurker #2421.1), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:35 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh jaymc, Laurie Anderson def. has the sexy, like a more elegant Patti Smith, who also has the sexy.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

(Though I'm thinking more of their access to the signifiers of wealth, particularly high-end tailored clothing which, of course, shapes a lot of how we perceive each other...)

xpost

― lurker #2421 (lurker #2421.1), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:41 (seventeen years ago) link

Re Kissinger territory: it's not just publicly acknowledged power that attracts (or sometimes not at all), it's also the power that a person gathers to him- or herself by her bearing. And Laurie Anderson = beautiful.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:45 (seventeen years ago) link

Also, I think I don't know that "moon-faced" means at all -- I always assumed it meant broad in the cheek, broadly smiling, round like a full moon. LA is not these things!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:48 (seventeen years ago) link

C. Ricci is the classic moonface. That or people with Cushing's.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

I guess I have a hard time constructing a way in which Jerry Seinfeld can be thought of as attractive that doesn't involve his power!

But seriously, I agree with you, and that's kind of my point, actually -- that using famous people makes it impossible to differentiate between personal magnetism and the magnetism attached to fame and fortune. Not that we have any alternative, really.

― lurker #2421 (lurker #2421.1), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:49 (seventeen years ago) link

OTOH I think Jack Black has perfectly fine features, it's mainly his weight that moves him from the "conventional" category to "offbeat".

― lurker #2421 (lurker #2421.1), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

LA has my thing, which is to say, that chiselled lip outline and obstinate chin. It ages so well, too.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Laurie Anderson has a round face, though, doesn't she? I'm more likely to find round-faced women attractive (cf. Ricci) than long-faced women (cf. Sarah Jessica Parker) -- which is why I'm stumped that I find Sarah Silverman as hot as I do. (I think maybe there's a touch of cute wrapped up in the hot.)

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:52 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah, Jack Black is v. handsome.

― horseshoe (horseshoe), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:53 (seventeen years ago) link

Jack Black is k-cute but I think it's due to my thing for eyebrows like his.

I think Silverman looks like an evil snakewoman.

― Abbott (Abbott), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

From straight-on LA's face is quite long, it's just that she has a high forehead, so the features are a little closer together at the bottom (and considering that the opposite of "moon-faced" is apparently "horsey", no one can win this game, I'm afraid). Round-faced is maybe this?

http://jeremyfreese.blogspot.com/garofalo.jpg

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:54 (seventeen years ago) link

George: Um, excuse me, have you see a guy with like a horse face, big teeth, and a, and a pointed nose?

Clerk: ... flared nostrils?

George: Yeah.

----

Kramer: Hey, did that guy show up?

Clerk: The guy with the... horse face... and the big teeth...

Kramer: No, the guy with the big head and the flared nostrils.

Clerk: Haven't seen him. There was a short guy with glasses... Looked like Humpty-Dumpty with a melon hat. But he left.

---

George: I went in with a pretty woman? You know, kinda short, big wall o' hair, face like a frying pan?

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:56 (seventeen years ago) link

Old photo of Laurie Anderson (1976):

http://www.cynthiamacadams.com/images/laurie_152.jpg

I dunno about you, but that's pretty definition of "moon-faced" to me.

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:57 (seventeen years ago) link

That's weird, the other pictures upthread don't even look like the same person.

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 22:58 (seventeen years ago) link

You are right! That photo from '76 is super duper square. I just can't figure out how she turned into Bicep Woman, who looks so fine of feature. Aging again, I guess?

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 23:01 (seventeen years ago) link

Hanging out with Lou Reed for too long?

― kingfish in absentia (kingfish), Thursday, 7 December 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.cynthiamacadams.com/images/laurie_2_154.jpg http://www.actustar.com/photos/riccichristina.jpg

― jaymc (jaymc), Thursday, 7 December 2006 23:08 (seventeen years ago) link

schwing:
http://www.discogs.com/image/A-131697-1128177334.jpeg

― milo (milo), Thursday, 7 December 2006 23:16 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.cynthiamacadams.com/images/laurie_2_154.jpg http://www.actustar.com/photos/riccichristina.jpg http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e66/LimitedLiabilityGirl/Laurel_Head.jpg

YEAH, OKAY, FINE!

― Laurel (Laurel), Thursday, 7 December 2006 23:29 (seventeen years ago) link

long-faced women (cf. Sarah Jessica Parker)

arrrgh. perfect body, but the face demands a bridle.

/meow

― Lauren (lauren), Friday, 8 December 2006 00:49 (seventeen years ago) link

haha sjp is cute/ugly - boooya!

― jhoshea (jhoshea), Friday, 8 December 2006 00:56 (seventeen years ago) link

I've become curious as to what I thought was "cute" so have gleaned these pictures from personals websites and offer them here as a glimpse into my anonymous psyche. This is what I think is "cute." And yes, I'm aware that all these women have the same expression on their faces. I'm only attracted to women with that expression.
http://static.flickr.com/139/317313457_6244f74309.jpg?v=0
http://static.flickr.com/137/317312429_25ae48eaa0.jpg?v=0
http://static.flickr.com/140/317312427_7d25f1872e.jpg?v=0

― Logged Outt (Logged Outt), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:36 (seventeen years ago) link

So you like elves, then. With no lips. Glad we cleared that up.

― Laurel (Laurel), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:37 (seventeen years ago) link

the first one looks kind of like stacey slater.

― Lauren (lauren), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:38 (seventeen years ago) link

http://www.brandybuck.com/amber/images/neopets/dark_crystal.jpg

― Abbott (Abbott), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

wow, i have a huge crush on the laurie anderson of 30 years ago.

― otto midnight (otto midnight), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I am pretty much a moon-face-only kinda dude, that old LA photo looks creepily like (and kinda reignites) my first high-school crush :(

What became of Best Buy ipod girl?

― Gravel Puzzleworth (Gregory Henry), Friday, 8 December 2006 20:55 (seventeen years ago) link

two months pass...

curtis' new facebook profile pic might be the cutest thing ever. curtis, you have to post it here, and prepare to have everyone go 'awwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!!!' atcha.

― Comrades, meet Tildo Durd (Scourage), Monday, 12 February 2007 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link

crepe

― esoj@w3rk (esoj@w3rk), Monday, 12 February 2007 03:45 (seventeen years ago) link

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