CONFESSION TIME: YOUR FIRST CELEBRITY CRUSH!
Followed soon after by one of your hometown girls, Mark:
Diane Lane circa Rumble Fish:
I can tell you without even having to verify it that Olivia Newton-John is not a hometown girl of mine. She’s actually Brtish, but we tried to claim her as one of our own, anyway.
Gee, I’ve never seen Liv appear so slovenly. I prefer her “Physical” look. Female popstars in the 1980s were so wholesome compared to those of today.
I went through a Farrah Fawcett stage during the 1990s. She was a great actress who never got a fair shake from Hollywood. Maybe she wasn’t great in the Faye Dunaway/Jane Fonda sense, but she was magnificent in “Extremities” and surprised some people in “The Apostle”.
And Wikipedia confirms you’re right. Olivia Newton John – born in England, raised in Austrailia AND half Jewish of which I had no idea. Learn something new every day.
the first was Nell Carter
current is Britanya o Campo
I have range
is this all you do Vaneslow, post pictures of women you find attractive?
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“I have range”
hahahaha, brilliant.
I would have to say my most long-standing (if not exactly the first) celebrity crush would have to be Milla Jovovich, simply because of her iconic, cheese-doodle-haired appearance in The Fifth Element.
Yeah yeah, she’s been in those (mostly uniformly) awful Resident Evil movies here for the past few years, but her first appearance definitely has left a big impression on me.
Also, Rosario Dawson would be my most current celebrity crush. And Eva Green. Anybody who’s seen Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Dreamers is gonna know EXACTLY where I’m coming from with Green. She was nice in Casino Royale as well.
also somewhere along the way I learned that reality stars make the best crushes cause you can actually have a shot at them, they make club appearances and some eventually work in escort services!!
Jim Carrey was my first celebrity crush. lol @ me. But hey, I was eight years old.
Aye-aye, Brad S.!
Well …
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Pretty much did it for me back in the day.
Most of the male cast of 21 Jump street (Johnny Depp and Dustin Nguyen), Theo from The Cosby Show and Thriller-era Michael Jackson.
I wanted to be Holly Robinson SO BAD.
before the really heinous plastic surgery started. MJ should have stopped after the first nose job.
in The Secret Garden
Corey Feldman… Lost Boys.
Natalie Portman
Awwwwww <3
Alex Mack
First at Age 12: Alyssa Milano.
Now: Monica Bellucci.
when I was a kid I had the biggest crush on Jack Lemmon
Allan:
I don’t see anybody else complaining.
What would prefer: that I post pictures of women that I find unattractive?
Like Dennis B., I have range.
(I was going to reply with an off-colour joke, but I want to keep this thread reasonably wholesome). I think your first celebrity crush can say a lot about the person you are today.
Dennis:
You must be a huge fan of “Gimme A Break!” I was surprised to see Nell Carter in “Hair”. She really was spunky. Nell knew the difference between sassy and bitchy, something lost on a lot of so-called sitcomics these days.
Machiko:
No love for Philip Michael Thomas? He ought to be right up your alley. Or maybe you were more of a Don Johnson fan.
Keri Russell wasn’t a celebrity yet, but Honey I Blew Up the Kid incited something in me that I don’t think it intended to.
@Mark – as much as I loved the 80s white suits and all PMT and DJ both seemed sleazy. And shoes with no socks? Pfft :)
@Beneezy – Natalie Portman was really a freakishly gorgeous kid like Liz Taylor.
Another two things:
I wasn’t really consciously aware that O.N.J. is half-Jewish. I would’ve never guessed, as she looks about as goy as they come.
Cyndi Lauper is great because she didn’t become a popstar until the age of thirty. Take a look at so many other 1980s popstars: Tiffany and Debbie Gibson were both pretty much done before the age of 20. Martika also peaked very early. Cyndi proves you can start relatively late as a recording artist (although she obviously tried for a break many years prior) and continue well into your fifties. She’s still touring the world and drawing huge crowds—not many others from the 1980s who were female popstars can make the same claim.
Phoebe Cates. I can’t talk about it.
Ooh I put a picture of him on my wall, I was like what, 11? I loved his nerdy look and then the vulnerability he displayed even as Superman:
And of course there was Luke Skywalker(Mark Hamill) and Han Solo (Harrison Ford), at 10 and for the same reasons — strong and vulnerable. Hmmm… and then even Charlton Heston in Ben Hur…
First five in order:
MARK IS SUSPENDED IN GAFFA
I’m quite proud to say this woman pictured below was my first (for want of a better term) celebrity crush. Raquel Welch came several years later.
Few people knew this about me but now it’s all over the internet, so, eeeh, there you go, folks.
There’s some Mark Vanselow trivia for you right there: first celebrity crush was Cyndi Lauper. Now it’s YOUR turn to ’fess up: who was yours?