"Hotness gap"?

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I can't believe I wrote that title. But notice the quotes. That means it didn't really come from me.

Matthew Archbold of the Creative Minority Report has had an important epiphany, and calls us to action:

If there are any female Catholic bloggers who would like to make a male list feel free. We'll link to it. I just couldn't bring myself to do it.

This is too much for me to take on, but it's a nice idea to give the men their due. A few suggestions:

Adam Baldwin
Todd Palin
Bruce Willis?
Clint Eastwood?

Lots of fodder here, though they needn't be actors. One-man global content providers also qualify. (There is such a thing as an intelli-crush, you know.) Hyacinth girl also likes Ari Fleischer. And some think Simon Cowell is conservative. Dunno.

(My friend Phyllis will never forgive me if I omit Tom Selleck. But I just saw him last night in a Magnum PI rerun and his short-shorts were enough to disqualify him. Sorry!)

*The late Patrick McGoohan, who created The Prisoner television series, must be included. Cerebral, strong, honorable, and coolly handsome, he was:


The Prisoner is to television what 1984 is to literature. Okay, I'm exaggerating. But Big Brother lived well and prospered in The Village created by McGoohan. These quotes capture McGoohan's theme:

I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

And:

I am not a number, I am a free man.

He reportedly turned down the role of James Bond that ultimately went to Sean Connery. McGoohan's Secret Agent Man was a deliberate contrast to Bond:

"When Drake fights, he fights clean," Mr. McGoohan once explained. "He abhors bloodshed. He carries a gun, but doesn't use it unless necessary -- and then he doesn't shoot to kill. He prefers to use his wits. He is a person with a sophisticated background and a philosophy. I want Drake to be in the heroic mould, like the classic Western hero -- which means he has to be a good man."[emphasis added]

John Drake was not what was once called a "womanizer."

Just a heads up to CMR: there already is a calendar: Pretty in Mink.
And then there's the Sarah Palin calendar, too.

*Suzanna Logan has something to say about this. So does Monique Stuart. (Phyllis, check it out: your hero Tom is there, and thankfully without the 70's hot pants it's just a head shot.) Be warned that Monique includes the obligatory Speedo shot. Little Miss Attila adds some photos of
her own and demonstrates that RSM has managed to infiltrate every last corner of the blogosphere. NTTAWWT.

*Deuce at the Skepticrats wrote about this question back in March, taking the guys at Ace of Spades and Blackfive to task for using the words "cuties" and "Code Pink" in the same sentence. He has more good points in his updated post.

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