Actresses I Have a Crush On

Tags: 
  • Diane Lane [Unfaithful]
  • Eva Mendes [Out of Time]
  • Julie Christie [Don't Look Now]
  • Marpessa Dawn (Eurydice) [Black Orpheus]
  • Scarlett Johannsen [Lost in Translation]
  • Katie Holmes [Pieces of April]
  • Penelope Cruz [Vanilla Sky]
  • Milla Jovavich [haven't really seen many, but I have a crush on her all the same...]
  • Claire Forlani [Anti-Trust]
  • Liv Tyler [Cookie's Fortune]
  • Neve Campbell [Wild Things]
  • Lucy Liu [Kill Bill]
  • Maria Bello [The Cooler]
  • Evangeline Lilly [Lost]
Author Comments: 

In parentheses, the role that really sums up her personal appeal...

I don't know if Hollywood is ready for the two of us...

At least we have no duplicates, so most of the actresses can get some rest.

Scarlet is quite beautiful, and Marpessa Dawn is nearly too ethereal for words. I won't be greedy and wrestle you for them, though. ;)

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

Yes, many of these starlets couldn't handle more than one stalker, so we should keep the lists mutually exclusive. I figured you would appreciate Marpessa--I couldn't take my eyes off of her the entire movie.

I feel that all my years as a listologist have been leading up to this list. I now am at the top of my game...

Johnny Waco

You are smoking!

And now we know everybody who has been lighting your matches...

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs (who should probably just shut up and go home now... :) )

If only Diane Lane could be my cigarette girl. Does she have the best genes in Hollywood, or what? She must be well into her forties and more beautiful than 98% of all the twenty-something starlets the movies give us...

Johnny Waco

Wait a minute! The movies give you starlets?!?!?

Man, which theater do you go to?

I might well be more attracted to Ms. Lane if I ever got around to watching some of the movies she appears in...

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

Totally in agreement about Katie Holmes in Pieces Of April.

I've long had a crush on Ms. Holmes, but this one just sticks in my mind...

Johnny Waco

Well, I read that you have competition for Katie, but he is a small fry and you can take him.

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

What the ----?! That is literally shocking to me. I'll take him if I need to, but all I can say to Katie is: start reading up on scientology, honey, you're headed to Cultville...

Johnny Waco

Is that why I hear her referred to as a cult actress?

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs (whose money is on Johnny all the way...)

I wonder if Scientology has a "compound" out in the woods somewhere? Maybe even a buried school bus or three to supplement it? If Tom and Katie start playing sloppy, bad "Gospel Rock" in their compound, I'm washing my hands of the whole thing...

Johnny Waco

Aw, c'mon, be open-minded. Cook and I have gotten along much better ever since she joined that biker gang...

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

Well, you know, I do find that blank, empty stare that cult members do kind of a turn on...

Johnny Waco

Have you met my Spanish ex-girlfriend from my college days, Tabla Rossa? It sounds like you might like her.

Oh my golly!

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

Oh yeah! I remember her: didn't you steal from that guy Pygmalion Jefferson?

Johnny Waco

Yes. She was loverly and a good girl, she was...

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

Ivory skin, if I recall...literally.

Johnny Waco

Johnny, are you a Maxim Man?

By the way, if I wasn't trying to avoid duplicating your list, Evangeline Lilly would certainly pop up on my own.

Shalom, y'all!

L. Bangs

I'm not in complete agreement with their top ten--Jessica Simpson is not my cup of tea--but I like seeing Evangeline in the #2 spot. I like Eva Longoria quite a bit, but she just didn't make the list; however, I like the fact she's from Texas (Corpus Christi), making her the va-va-voom yin to Jessica Simpson's generic blonde DFW yang.

I hope that last sentence doesn't sound too obscene...

Johnny Waco