Entertainment For Lively Minds
STARS YOU ONCE FANCIED
Posted by CharlieB on 26 November 2009 - 5:05pm.
At the rather precious age of 61 I can pass judgement on those ladies who rang my bell, at sometime or rather in my life.
So here goes the list; -
Carol Deene( Met once at a Dorothy Squires Garden Party in the 60's)
Susan Maughan, Linda Ronstadt, Sheena Easton, The mother in the Judds, Martina McBride(when I got up close too much make-up), Faith Hill(Fancy her hubbie would hit me),Julie Christie( A for Andromeda time when she had dark hair), Charlize Theron (Especially after that perfume add) and Carrie Rodriquez.
There are probably more but the mind cells are starting to go into fade mode.
No doubt some of the 'Wordites' have their preferences?
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I fancied Kate Bush, I fancy Kate Bush...
and I will still fancy her when she's dribbling whilst doing jigsaws.
Babooshka
and all my Punk rockin' musician mates thought I only liked her because of the Babooshka video - they would never believe I loved her for her music!
I cannot escape
Salma Hayek...her lovely boobs seem to follow me around the room...
La Ronstadt
was the epitome of whatIwanteedbutwouldneverhave - stunning looker, lived in LA. Only 56, am I allowed to say such things? And Joan Osborne at the Paradiso some 10 years ago now was the sexiest act I have ever seen.
Linda Ronstadt
As a result of a competition posted by Colin Meloy on his Twitter page, I wrote a song about Linda Ronstadt. The chorus went like this:
Linda Ronstadt, Linda Ronstadt
I'd like to tell you how I feel;
You've got my heart spinning like an acrobat,
You've got it spinning like a wheel.
Lysette Anthony...
Beverly D'angelo
Isabella Rossellini
Swoon...
Men of a certain age
Emmylou Harris
Chris Evert ..no ? Just me?
Debbie Harry
She's about 25 years older than me .....
.... which, never minding MILF, puts her into GILF territory, but Noosha Fox in her 70s hayday ethereally swanning round the stage in a cape just did and does it for me! Mentions in dispatches for Alison Goldfrapp too - that Prussian air hostess look was spotty dog!
BR
Freaky Trigger
where do I start?
constant teenage erections and other manifestations of hormone driven impulses inspired by:
Jaclyn Smith (Kelly in Charlie Angels)
Sally James on Tiswas
Lindsay Wagner - The Bionic Woman
Catherine Bach as Daisy Duke
Linda Lusardi (favourite 80s page 3 girl)
Most of the women in Dallas - JR's girlfriends
Isabelle Adjani
slighty more healthy adult silent longing for:
Sharon Stone
Monica Belluci
Naomi Watts
Salma Hayak
Scarlett Johansen
Virginia Madsen
oh God..Naomi Watts
and Monica, and Scarlett and Ginny...mmmm.
Julie Newmar as Catwoman
As an 11 year old boy, I thought all girls yucky and pointless.
Then I saw my first repeats of the Batman TV show and started feeling "confused and emotional" everytime the stunning Julie Newmar as Catwoman appeared on screen in her tight leather outfit:
Louise Edlind as Malin Melkersson
in "Vi På Saltkråkan" (Life On Seacrow Island) by Astrid Lindgren. 19-year-old Malin certainly confused me when I "discovered" her sometime around 1980. The Swedish TV series from 1964 had a rerun every summer for many years in Norway. Not entirely sure if Mrs. Lindgren had intended her to be quite so hot. Probably boosted ratings among fathers as well.
She is very cute
Reminds me of a Scandanavian Jenny Agutter. Good call.
In Scandinavia
even the non-good looking people are good looking aren't they? That was my empirical observation anyway, from a visit to Sweden to watch Scotland in Euro 1992 (yes, it was a long time ago!).
Blimey!!
No matter how heavy your Norwegian winter coats may be, I can see somewhere you might hang them. In fact, two of them.
Oh very definitely. Like
Oh very definitely. Like you, I think Julie Newmar gave me my first inkling that girls were actually rather alluring.
Tracie Young
I WAS going to meet her and marry her, I was, really.
Me too!
She's a DJ now in Brighton or something. I was totally in love with her.
Oooooooo.....
I interviewed her last year!
Now a working Mum (or was then) - living in Chelmsford and a DJ on Dream 107.7FM
Still v.v. nice. Not heard from Weller in many a long long moon....
You may be interested
in this page. Not me, of course, I just post it for academic interest:
http://www.thecoast106.com/tracie-young-bio-554987
Mmmmmm
there's an e-mail address............
I took the liberty of
drawing Tracie Young's attention to this thread via her radio station e-mail address. I received the following reply today "Ha, thank you very much!" suddenly life for a 44 year old mad ain't so bad. Now if I was still 17 and it was still 1982......
Liz Fraser
of 'Carry On' and numerous other British comedies of the 50's and '60's.
I met her once, or at least I queued up for her autograph when she opened our village fair in the summer of '77 when I was 12. I assume she must have been appearing in a production of some kind in Newcastle at the time.
Most of the local kids trooped up to get her autograph though I also assume a few didn't really knew who she was. I did. She was lovely to me. She chatted away ignoring the fact she was addressing a chubby ball of shyness. She squeezed my hand, beamed at me and signed 'Love, Liz Fraser'
Some time after in my early teens I saw 'Carry On Cruising' for the first time and was taken wholeheartedly aback by the scene of her and her pal getting dressed for dinner in their cabin. What a stunning woman she was! What a shape on her! My kinda girl. Sigh...
Crikey
Have you seen Liz Frazer in one of the Confessions movies trying to seduce Robin Askwith whilst stripped down to just black bra and panties?
Ding. And indeed, Dong.
I never knew that
about the singer in Cocteau Twins :-)
Confessions
I think seeing Liz Fraser (not the Cocteau Twins one thank you very much Norwegian Blue...) in a black basque was definitely a "moment" when I was growing up. No idea what the Confessions/Adventures/Carry On movie it was in though.
Shirley Maclaine
in "The Apartment"
Wendy and Lisa
Two stunning lesbians in underwear on stage. Prince, who just to rub it in had a relationship with Wendy's twin sister, knew what he was doing in the 80's.
Winona Ryder
Awful actress, awesome babe. Extra point for having Timothy Leary as godfather.
the chick from the partridge family
there I've said it
Shirley Jones
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmilf :-)
(That's who you meant, right?!)
Well, I'm 52...
so I guess I first started noticing women on the telly in "that way" in the late sixties. Like a blogger above, I found Catwoman from the Batman series incredibly arousing, and, in a similar way, Diana Rigg as Emma Peel in the Avengers, especially when she changed into her leather outfit (which was always a sign that a fight was about to start).
I also had a big crush on Goldie Hawn, as she was in Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (giggly and silly but very attractive with it) and Susan Stranks in Magpie, who wore much shorter skirts than her Blue Peter equivalents & seemed more knowing. And, of course, it probably goes without saying that, like every man my age, I fell in love with Felicity Kendal in The Good Life.
Finally, someone mentioned Chris Evert above. She never did it for me, but a tennis player from the same era who definitely *did* do it for me (and I have a hunch I might be alone in this) was Evonne Goolagong. Anyone remember her? You wouldn't have guessed from her interviews, which were usually very dull, but on the tennis court in her little white dress she was (for me, anyway) fantastically sexy.
It probably doesn't reflect very well on me that all this is still so fresh in my mind...
Tennis babes
Definitely swoon over Chrissie and Evonne (I think I fell in love with just her name at first!). And later on, of course, there were Annabel Croft and Gabriela Sabatini; I remember a brilliant Clive James column of the time eulogising over Gabby, to which I was in full agreement.
My mate Gary..
..went on a corporate tennis day with loads of other executives. It was hosted by Ms Croft. They, to a man (and two women) all fell completely in love with her. Gaz said she was so, so lovely to them all. It was, aparently, worrying to see the CFO of a Footsie 100 company rendered helpless and drooling by a woman with a tennis racquet.
gaby sabatini et al
yes. memories flooding back of watching women's tennis in the late 70s and 80s solely (and I mean solely) to glimpse a few inches of white cotton set against succulent tan thighs in the June sunshine when lithe bodies were fully stretched for the opening serve, lob, or smash shot. And as I recall, Gaby beat them all hands down with the finest set of pins ever to grace Wimbledon's sacred turf. With Steffi Graf a close second.
bit too much detail? okay, fair enough.
It was her topspin forehand.
Unusually, she played it with her weight going backwards, levering up on her right leg and would lift the other knee to counterbalance. Giving lots of photographers lots of shots of her undergarments. I never looked at any of them.
But I did do a quick Google image search to check. In the interest of accuracy, you understand. You seen any pictures of her recently? Blimey. The passing years have not been unkind.
Just for you Lenny
Dave..
Don't post things like that. Now I've got to go and Veet my palms again.
Tennis Babes?
There's only one
Carling Bassett.
Canada's proto Anna Kournikova.
Drop dead gorgeous but alas, no drop shot.
Wendy James
in the I Want Your Love video
Sigh
Oo-er
I feel decidedly queer. I think I may have to go to the bathroom.
Two words
Amanda. Donohoe.
If I go back further, Judy Geeson, Stacy Dorning (Black Beauty) and Sally James.
Then there was Kim Wilde (but not Debbie Harry, dunno why), Kate Bush, Imogen Stubbs and the impossibly gorgeous Andrea Rau, who appeared as Delphine Seyrig's Sapphic Vampire Lover (what's not to like, eh?) in Daughters Of Darkness.
Yes. Yes yes.
Amanda Donohoe in THAT episode of Frasier..
Imogen Stubbs remains a goddess. Even though her collar and cuffs still don't match.
Wendy Craig
circa Butterflies is, perhaps, one of my more unusual crushes, must have been that homely look. Also of course, Sally James, which for lads of a certain age is a given.
Moving on, came the delectable Kate Bush, then punk gave us the rather more edgy Siouxsie and the lovely Debbie Harry. Along with Kate Bush, the only constant crush in my life is the gorgeous PJ Harvey.
Current favourites are Claudia Winkleman and Karin dreijer Andersson from Fever Ray.
Agnetha the blonde from ABBA
loved her when she had long hair
Ally Sheedy
In Breakfast Club mode.
I always thought...
I was alone in that.
Am I unusual
in preferring Molly Ringwald?
Howe about Ally Sheedy in High Art?
Older, sexier, more mysterious. Sweeps the pulchritudinous Radha Mitchell off her feet. As you can see...
Clare Grogan, Clare Grogan, Clare Grogan.
Then, now, always...........sigh...............
See also Debbie Harry, Belinda Carlisle & Charlie Caffey, Keren Woodward, Siobhan Fahey and, as above, the very lovely Wendy James.
Current squeezes....
Amy Adams
Angela Kinsey
Florence Welch
Megan Fox and the short haired lady from The Saturdays!
The short-haired lady
would be Frankie Sandford. Very good call.
It's taken a while
before ms Grogan's name appeared but I just have to echo JW ... sigh ...
Oh, and Cheri Lunghi in The Manageress
and more recently Eva Green ... what better thoughts to end an evening.
"OK, I'll be through in a while - just logging off"
I saw Clare Grogan in Covent Garden once
It was summer, she had a lot of bright colours on and I think a bow in her hair. She was actually BETTER looking in real life than on the box.
First Crush Dispute
Although my mum and dad say I always blushed when Wendy Craig was on screen in Butterflies, my first crush was Kim Richards in a movie called Escape From Witch Mountain (I think that was the title?).
She would have been around my age and I think it was probably the only movie she ever did but it was certainly worth it!
When I was about 7 I was in love with Sue Lawley
If you ever see a picture of her in the mid seventies, it's not quite as strange as it seems
Gemma Hayes
The woman is beautiful. She sings beautifully. She has a nice lilting Tipperary accent. She writes fragile and dense songs.
Frankly, if it was possible to be completely perfect, Gemma Hayes would be that woman.
And being 23, I'm still allowed to have a monumental crush am I not?
Although, I would love to do an album of duets with her one day. I believe our voices would work well together. Purely on a platonic level you understand...
Hear hear hear hear!
Can't disagree with a word of that Badger. She's beautiful and gifted; looks like a dream colleen out of Central Casting doesn't she?
I have news for you, Badger.
There is no upper age limit for monumental crushes.
huzzah!
(It's at this point she reveals herself to be a secret member of the Massive and I appear to be the world's biggest stalker - good times!)
Everybody's Stalking....
*Coughs* Blimey, how did she get under the radar? Get Heppo to summon his flying monkeys and arrange an interview at once, along with a photo shoot involving...sorry, got carried away there for a minute.
Can I put in a word for Sarah Greene?
Did I mention?
Her music is astounding as well?
Beautiful.
Any excuse for a youtube clip!
Beauty And The Beast Irish Edition
A bit harsh...
Sinead's not that bad
Oddly enough
I only appear to fancy women I, well, think I'd stand a chance with....civilty prevents me from posting the names of the recipients of said back-handed compliments!
20 years ago
I was rather taken with Kim Deal and Tanya Donelly.
One of the biggest regrets of my life is that, after a Throwing Muses gig in Liverpool, I fancied some fish 'n chips - but after noticing that the only other people in the shop were Tanya Donelly, Kristin Hirsh and Leslie Langston, I bottled it and kept on walking!
I've been wearing a horsehair shirt ever since as penance.
Kim and Tanya
You. Lucky. Bugger.
Just add Nigella Lawson and that's a recurring dream of mine. Mmm, smeared lard.
A mate was at a 4AD anniversary gig and kept being bumped by the person behind. Eventually losing patience he turned to remonstrate to find that it was Kim Deal. He melted on the spot.
Was at a Belly gig in Camden once and after she'd introduced each member of the band I lovingly (hopefully?) called out "And I'm MIKE!"
Finding out that she's an astronomy nut with a big garden telescope (no, not euphemisms) just makes me love her more.
And Kim Wilde when I was 17. I had her picture taped to my amp at gigs.
Spent time in the studio with Clare Grogan once. At one point, sat beside me, she fell head first into my lap after some band tomfoolery. Her head stayed there as my face went beetroot red and my smile fixed into a rictus.
OK. Here we go..
Time for one of those stories. A long time ago, back when I was fourteen or so, I fell in love with Cheryl Baker. Bad. In the way of young lads. I wrote her letters. She never replied. The cow. Anyway.
I got over it.
One night at uni, Manchester, late 80's, me and sundry mates had a confessional session. I confessed the above, to deserving hoots. Another lad, Brian, revealed that he, too, had suffered similarly and had, too, written letters. He was also laughed at.
A couple of weeks later we were all dining in the Yang Sing. Brian was sitting next to me. He nudged me in the ribs. "Look left and wait for the shit to start" he said.
I looked. Arsecakes. Cheryl fucking Baker. Next table.
Me and Brian kept quiet.
Eventually, someone noticed.
The glare Cheryl gave us all as she and her partner left will remain with me for some time.
I still think I might be in with a chance, though.
Spoilt for choice
Just been watching the first season of Twin Peaks.
Gurls are just soppy
and then one day after school you watch Follyfoot. You get a funny feeling in your tummy. Later - much later - you realise that it's the first inkling that gurls are not just soppy after all.
Gillian Blake
I would go weak at the knees, fall to pieces..
Juanita Stein.
Emily Blunt.
Lily Allen
Anna Friel
Frankie Sandford.
There was this TV star ...
... technically not real and if she was real, then 50% fish ... but all the same
http://www.sixtiescity.com/Anderson/Images/AND156.jpg
A Very Peculiar Practice
Anyone remember Barbara Flynn in this, still gives me funny felings.
Madonna
pre-Erotica and also around the time of Ray of Light was pretty danm hot. Then ofcours eit all went pear-shaped
Lush
I always held a candle for Miki Berenyi from Lush. I met her once at an Anti-Poll Tax gig at the Brixton Fridge.
She tapped me on the shoulder and asked who the band that were playing were (it was Cud) and we had a chat for about an hour. It was a highlight of my youth to actually talk to someone famous wot I fancied.
There's two of them
Emma Anderson looks pretty good as well.
Interesting demographic
Not to knock the glorious entertainment of it all but I can't spot a single female or gay post - correct me if I'm wrong.
What does this say about Word (online) readers?
Taking a wild guess here
but perhaps it says that they're (we're) mostly heterosexual men.
Jenny Agutter
was one of mine. There was a pic of her from Logan's Run that was mostly leg. And then there was An American Werewolf In London....sigh.
Anyway I saw her yesterday at Paddington. Made me feel slightly old. Because well, she was older too.
Too many others to list.
But some notables would include:
Caroline Munro
Joanne Whalley
Helen Mirren
Marilu Henner. Ah.
I know this is good fun
and don't want to come across as a 'pooper, but we have been here before, and quite recently:
http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/content/those-we-have-loved-tv-crushes-yes...
The Ladies of The Word parish
perhaps remember that we did this quite recently and don't feel the need to do it all again ?
Oh dear
I really do seem to be developing a thing for the slightly older lady at the moment. (I say slightly - I'm not into Judi Dench just yet!
Flashforward is really good for the ladies at the moment. Oh my word, it is.
Sonya Walger:
Peyton List:
Yuko Takeuchi:
Drooooool.
Rock Stars i fancied the pants off at some point or other
In no particular order:
Carol Decker
Suzi Quatro
Kirsty MacColl
Kate Bush
Chrissie Hynde
Terry Chambers
The small one from the Nolans
Hot Gossip (esp the one with the fringe)
Siouxsie
Debbie Harry
Elizabeth McGovern (she has a band)
Strawberry Switchblade (both)
Joan Armatrading
Belinda Carlisle
Terri out of Berlin
Colin Moulding
Joan Jett
Alison Moyet
Nena (arms down)
Nico
Tina Turner
Tina Weymouth
Yum yum, on the most part.
Time has been kind to Nena
The woman, not her music. She looks pretty fit in this video from 2003...and blimey it's Kim Wilde.
And the winner is.....
Sonja Kristina. Either the picture of her in a vest on the inside cover of the Second Album, or the poster from Sounds in, oooh, 1973 from memory which was on the wall of my teenage bedroom until the day we moved out of the house.
Belinda Carlisle
She's the reason I have a total thing for redheads. I was ten when Circle In The Sand came out, and I remember having a dream about meeting Belinda near the campsite in France where my mum and dad had just taken us for holiday. She was very nice to me, in this dream, and held my hand.
Oh, to be ten.
Anyway, as a result, I tend to develop awesomely pathetic crushes on most vaguely nubile ginge lady slebs. Except Lily Cole. She looks like a cross between Spuggie out of Byker Grove and Darren out of EastEnders. On a diet.
Smoking hot redhead
Mad Men's resident sex symbol Christina Hendricks
Nurse, my pills....
She could nurse my pills any day, arf arf etc.
only one ginger for me
The acceptable face of redheads. As popularised by the family comedy "Night At The Museum 2". Had me drooling a little bit.
Amy Adams:
So, just to clarify...
Christina Hendricks?
Belinda Carlisle?
No response?
What response are you looking for?
I love red/ginger/Titian hair on a lady, I think it's so striking and sensual. I find all the above extremely attractive, plus Julianne Moore, Marcia Cross, Alyson Hannigan,that girl who played Elizabeth Siddall in Desperate Romantics. Hell, I even think Nicola Roberts is the most interesting Girl Aloud because of the mane.
Hope that clarifies my thoughts :-)
Come on..
You mention redheads, yet none of you have got in a tizz about the haunting pre-raphelite beauty of Gillian Anderson, especially in classic X-Files smart suit? Gentlemen! (And, possibly, ladies..)
Damn, forgot her!
I'm self-flagellating as we write (or something) :-)
it has to be.......
Greta Scacchi mmmmmmmmmmmm
On reflection...
Laura San Giacomo, preferably in sex, lies and videotape rather than Just Shoot Me (although Maya had her points....)
Always
Emmylou Harris
Unrequited torch carried for many, many years