Saturday, September 19, 2009
The 80s: The Ultimate Collection
There are two types of music I listen to most in my office: country music and 80s. After my student worker dramatically tried to staple herself to death after being forced to listen to George Strait (I cannot believe she has no taste), we spend a lot of time together listening to the 80s. Anyway, it got me thinking about the 80s and all my childhood crushes. I'm afraid they cannot all be listed here, but I thought I would post a few common 80s hearttrobs. You have your favorites, I'm sure, and I have mine. (The Jon Bon Jovi should not be a surprise. I still know all the words to "You Give Love a Bad Name" and will scream it in my car if it comes on the radio.)
My crush when I was five:
Did anyone love Luke Duke? I think it was the car. Bo was the driver, primarily, and I admit, I was in love with the car as much as I was in love with the man. I wore my Bo Duke shirt until it fell off in pieces. It was orange with that 80s plastic print of his picture. Best of all: he's still hot. Cute movie to see him in: Sydney White (a play on Snow White, but modern day and in college. Hilarious.)
I'm sure I could have found an authentic Jon Bon Jovi from the 80s, but did anyone want to miss this version? Please.
Before Josh Brolin did movies, he was on a little show called The Young Riders. At the time, I thought it was the epitome of excellent writing and drama. I have the first season and now appreciate that it was actually a show where they had five really hot guys standing around without their shirts, putting up fences a lot of the time. Soap operaish, yes; Emmy worthy, NO. I still think they're cute though. (Josh has aged well. Ty, not so much.)
Always loved me a bad boy. Bo Duke. Bon Jovi. Wild Bill Hickok. Now I'm not an 80s movie afficianado, because I wasn't a fan of Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, et al. Sorry, John Hughes, you weren't dark enough for me. But Rob Lowe was.
Yet if you want to talk about bad boys you were dying to take home to mom, Rob Lowe wasn't quite it. There was one who topped them all. Johnny Castle. I had that poster on my wall for years. It is still my dream to dance like that sequence for "Time of My Life", even though teaching me to dance would be an exercise in frustration for everyone involved. I make Bella (from Twilight) look like Beyonce on the dance floor.
So, who were your teenage crushes? And are you a fan of Dirty Dancing? And how many of you are hoping your little novel is the sleeper hit like DD was? *LOL*
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Ready your tankards, lassies, the incomparable Anne Gracie will be boarding the ship on Tuesday, September 22. Anne, as you may (or should) well know, is the author of funny, three-hanky reads like The Perfect Rake, The Stolen Princess, and His Captive Lady. Her latest book is out this month: To Catch a Bride, and you better not miss it. Rafe is one dead sexy Devil Rider.
My crush when I was five:
Did anyone love Luke Duke? I think it was the car. Bo was the driver, primarily, and I admit, I was in love with the car as much as I was in love with the man. I wore my Bo Duke shirt until it fell off in pieces. It was orange with that 80s plastic print of his picture. Best of all: he's still hot. Cute movie to see him in: Sydney White (a play on Snow White, but modern day and in college. Hilarious.)
I'm sure I could have found an authentic Jon Bon Jovi from the 80s, but did anyone want to miss this version? Please.
Before Josh Brolin did movies, he was on a little show called The Young Riders. At the time, I thought it was the epitome of excellent writing and drama. I have the first season and now appreciate that it was actually a show where they had five really hot guys standing around without their shirts, putting up fences a lot of the time. Soap operaish, yes; Emmy worthy, NO. I still think they're cute though. (Josh has aged well. Ty, not so much.)
Always loved me a bad boy. Bo Duke. Bon Jovi. Wild Bill Hickok. Now I'm not an 80s movie afficianado, because I wasn't a fan of Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club, et al. Sorry, John Hughes, you weren't dark enough for me. But Rob Lowe was.
Yet if you want to talk about bad boys you were dying to take home to mom, Rob Lowe wasn't quite it. There was one who topped them all. Johnny Castle. I had that poster on my wall for years. It is still my dream to dance like that sequence for "Time of My Life", even though teaching me to dance would be an exercise in frustration for everyone involved. I make Bella (from Twilight) look like Beyonce on the dance floor.
So, who were your teenage crushes? And are you a fan of Dirty Dancing? And how many of you are hoping your little novel is the sleeper hit like DD was? *LOL*
ANNOUNCEMENTS: Ready your tankards, lassies, the incomparable Anne Gracie will be boarding the ship on Tuesday, September 22. Anne, as you may (or should) well know, is the author of funny, three-hanky reads like The Perfect Rake, The Stolen Princess, and His Captive Lady. Her latest book is out this month: To Catch a Bride, and you better not miss it. Rafe is one dead sexy Devil Rider.
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I used to have a huge crush on River Phoenix! He was a very talented young man and I was sad to see him pass on so early in life.
Teen Age crushes... This is going to date me so badly! Uh... Ron Ely of Tarzan...though that was actually a bit before teenagehood. Hugh Grant, Doug McClure... Oliver Reed (I loved The Three Musketeers)... Gene Kelly. Danny Kaye... I liked old movies. The guy who played Adam on Bonanza...
Gregory Peck. Atticus Finch. Come on! Everyone falls in love with him!
Marial: GREAT TASTE! River Phoenix was so incredibly swoonworthy. I loved him as a young Indiana Jones...and I remember where I first heard the news that River had overdosed and died. I was a college freshman--and my girlfriend and I were horror struck.
BTW - Rob Lowe looks great. Nice choice!
2nd: I *LOVE* Gene Kelly. If they ever clone his DNA and make a new Gene Kelly, I'm putting my ticket in for a chance to marry him. Hot, hot, hot. I have several Gene Kelly movies (not American in Paris though...even in movies, I don't care for France)--he's swoony divine.
Danny Kaye was adorable in The Court Jester. And the guy on Bonanza--Adam was always my favorite. *SWOONS* Oh, so handsome!
I liked Gregory Peck in How the West Was Won. He was a bad boy. *grins* Love me some bad boys.
Rob's eyes are very swoony in that pic. I was very excited to find this picture.
I still want to figure out how to that spider monkey move that Jennifer Grey is doing on Patrick Swayze.
Hel - Ask yer stripper instuctor...or is that pole dancin' instructor? She might know.
Met a woman at the RenFaire, wrote a historical novel about Anne Bonny... I'll let you know how it is. I bought it...
Hal is the one with stripping lessons. I only have the DVDs. *LOL*
Cool.
I have a book called The Sweet Trade about Anne Bonney--it was very, very good. Dark, not very romancy (typical), but I remember it being VERY GOOD. Well written, compelling voice.
Oops. Ask Hal's instructor! :)
I've read The Only Life That Mattered and Kingston by Starlight. This new one is Heart of A Pirate. She seemed very interested in being historically accurate.
Ah, the 80s.Better than the 70s, when I was pregnant practically the entire decade. I was only pregnant once in the 80s. Yes,I'm really old, too.But somehow Harrison Ford leaps out at me during that era, and he's even older than I am, so it's all good. :)
My girls know every word from Dirty Dancing.
Good choices all, Hellie! Rob Lowe is beautiful, a pleasure to behold.
When I think of men of the 80s, I think of Tom Selleck. I put a Selleck poster in the first of aculty lounge so about a dozen of us could make bawdy remarks every day. My principal took it down and broke out hearts.
Hi guys! I'm back from the beach!! :) And I missed you guys!! :)
What better way to return to civilization than a bunch of hotties?
Good choices Hells. I love me some Jon Bon Jovi. And Maggie, I think I had a crush on Harrison Ford until college. He was scrumptious in the Star Wars movies. I wanted to be Princess Leah.
Oh, yeah, I was crazy for Bo Duke. :) Most of these 80's guys have aged really well!
Of all your picks, it was Patrick Swayze I had the most fantasies about. I felt like I'd "discovered" him when he did the North and South mini series. I felt like he was going to be a huge star. (Kind of like seeing Ioan Gruffudd in the Horatio Hornblower series, but I don't think Ioan became as big as I thought he would.)
But I digress. Patrick Swayze's Johnny in Dirty Dancing is hard to compete with for fantasies. It's so sad to hear he passed away after his battle with cancer.
Ladies, I knew I'd come to the right place. Chance, can I prety much just ditto your list? I mean, I've never run across anyone else who thought Oliver Reed was drool worthy. Love me some Hugh Grant as well, and Gene Kelly and Danny Kaye (YES! on the Court Jester..the pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon...)
And The Breakfast Club may not be dark, but who didn't swoon over Judd Nelson as John Bender?
And thank you for the recommendations on the Anne Bonny books. I need to go see what the competition is writing! Yo ho!
BTW, I picked up this info at Amazon about The Sweet Trade: James L. Nelson (aka Elizabeth Garrett) repackaged and rereleased this book in 2004 as "The Only Life That Mattered: The Short and Merry Lives of Anne Bonny, Mary Read, and Calico Jack", under his real name.
So, we have a man hiding under a woman's name writing a book about women hiding under the disguise of men!
Oh, Kat! That is so delish! All of it!
You liked Oliver Reed, too. Sigh. I know, I thought I was like, totally, alone in this one. His Athos was to die for... Strange man, really...very bawdy in real life. But what a voice!
I'm wit' ya on Judd Nelson.
*giggle
Hawkins: I've got it! I've got it! The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true! Right?
Griselda: Right. But there's been a change: they broke the chalice from the palace!
Hawkins: They *broke* the chalice from the palace?
Griselda: And replaced it with a flagon.
Hawkins: A flagon...?
Griselda: With the figure of a dragon.
Hawkins: Flagon with a dragon.
Griselda: Right.
Hawkins: But did you put the pellet with the poison in the vessel with the pestle?
Griselda: No! The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon! The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true!
Hawkins: The pellet with the poison's in the flagon with the dragon; the vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true.
Griselda: Just remember that.
Ri-i-i-i-i-ght!
I see the rum is making the rounds on this Sunday morning. I am POSITIVE this will make Hellie faint dead away, but I agree with all of these. Yes, we agree!!!
I'd have to throw in Joe Elliott of Def Leppard. He filled all my dreams during my HS years. Loved all the guys in the Brat Pack, but who could resist Rob Lowe in St. Elmo's Fire. Again, the bad boy. :)
Re: Tom Selleck. My mom loved him and wore his pin on her sweater for years. Before he was known, he was in a commercial for a new men's cologne called Chaz. Hence, my brother (born in '79) is named Chaz. All because of Tom's handsome face. LOL!
I think I was still in HS when I fell in love with Fred Astaire. The only scrawny man I'd ever run away with.
And now the confession that will get me teased for weeks, if not longer. I loved the New Kids On The Block. There, I said it.
*sigh* I loved Patrick Swayze. I probably watched that movie fifty million times. Okay. More than that. The year they brought out the anniversary edition of DD on DVD, Mattycakes bought it for me and took me to the park to dance on the log while it was sprinkling.
Patrick Dempsey anyone? Um, Matt Dillon. Andrew McCarthy. Rob Lowe. River Phoenix. And since I love the nerds, Anthony Michael Hall.
And I almost forgot, Christian Slater.
Sin - You just sent me back. Anyone else still mad she didn't choose Ducky in Pretty in Pink? Jon Cryer was so cool in that part.
And Matty took you to dance on the log? Ah, that's so sweet. I still think Patrick doing that little crooked finger "come here" thing is the sexiest thing ever.
Kevin Costner in "The prince of thieves" or whatever it was called. I had such a crush and would sit listening to the title song and svoon and be moody in teenage angst...
I liked the guy who played Matt Houston on television. Damn. What was his name? Lee Horsely? Soemthing like that...
And Adam was Pernell Roberts.
Man, didn't really have the brat pack flicks when I was in high school...it was all the early slasher films. Those morality tales in disguise...you f*ck, you die.
Bwah ha ha!
But no one really stands out in those films!
Maggie: I love Harrison Ford, esp as Indiana Jones (though I could have done without Crystal Skull--oh, I liked that he and Marian hooked up FINALLY, but I hate it when "authors" who write across genres think they're so cute to bring one of their genres into another one. It usually doesn't come out well--you basically just screw up both genres. However, I did love that refrigerator scene even if no one else did. *LOL*)
Marn! So wonderful to have you back--I hope you had a great time!!
Janga, I loved Tom Selleck! (I always had a thing for older men. *LOL* I loved it in FRIENDS when Monica was dating Tom Selleck for a while. He always looked dashing. A man who definitely looks good in a tux...not unlike George Clooney.)
Cruel of your principal. *tsking* Probably just jealous.
Melissa, I remember the North & South series came out when I was in 6th or 7th grade--and I'd plot my TV watching around them. I was IN LOVE with Ory Main. *swoons* (I have the series now, but I'm more in love with George Hazard's character than Ory's...I think it's because when I was younger, I adored the brooding, tragic hero who would rather remain unmarried than be without the woman he loved...and now I love the man who is charming but sincere, but doesn't really brood.)
I didn't get to watch DD until much later. My father still hates the movie DD. *LOL*
Kat: that's way too funny that the book I recommended and The Only Life That Mattered is the same author and book. *LOL* Love the irony. Told you it was a great book. (Also explains why the sex isn't remotely purply. *LOL*)
*ROTFLMAO* I knew the poison and the pellet skit would make it on here...it's so damned funny. That movie is so campy, but it's so funny.
I think Terri has been body snatched.
Okay, Chaz, your brother, is named after a cologne that Tom Selleck did? Named then "for Tom Selleck"--WHY didn't she just name him Tom?
Sin, you have such crazy romantic stories with you and Mattycakes. I mean, I'd still stab him in the middle of the night he's so annoying...but damn, when he's romantic, he's romantic....
hvitveis: I *loved* Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (though I would never put up with actors not doing appropriate accents now)--it was one of the few movies I saw in the theaters and it was the ONLY thing I asked for Christmas (I was 16), which is rather amusing because I'd been getting crap gifts for the last several years prior. I remember my sister saying, "I need more than one option" and being a bratty 16, I said, "I want that movie or NOTHING." My sister said she was SO TEMPTED to go with nothing that year. *LOL*
Good choice--and I was tempted to include him but since that movie was 1991, I had to refrain. (Maybe I'll do a 90s collection next week. *LOL*)
Those morality tales in disguise…you f*ck, you die.
There should be a slasher film where two kids at Bible Study get slashed. That'll teach 'em. *LOL*
I swear, that is the truth of those early movies. Girls would hold out, finally give in, and BAM ...throat slashed, just like that! Usually with boy right after or right before...
Boyfriend, no DH, used to love taking me to those at the drive in.
I really should own The Court Jester.
Uh, oops... Boyfriend, NOW DH.
That really looked bad...
A movie where Bible Study brats got it would be oddly entertaining! Least, I would get a kick out that!
I am not a Jon Cryer fan. He was good as Ducky (I will admit) but seriously, Sixteen Candles with Anthony Michael Hall was just hilarious. That and the Japanese exchange student who got drunk and wrecked the car and slept with the jock girl. LOL
Yeah, Hellie, when Mattycakes does good, he does good. Granted that was in the early stages of love but still, it sometimes makes up for me wanting to smother him in his sleep. LOL
When the men get it right...yes. Those wonderful moments of magic. Keeps us from killing them when they really screw up.
He did really good, Sin. Keeper.
Regarding Tom Selleck: The character's name was Thomas Sullivan Magnum. The hero in my Anne Bonny WIP? Sullivan. Yes, named after Tom Selleck. LOL!
I typed a comment a little while ago, and it got eaten. *sigh* The Reader's Digest version.
At the time, Tom Selleck was just a nameless model in a commercial. No one knew his name, hence my mother going with the cologne. (Plus, I had two uncles named Tom and neither were popular, so it's unlikely she would have gone with Tom anyway.)
I loved the Robin Hood movie, still have the movie poster (in a large frame) hanging on my bedroom wall.
I forgot to say earlier, thank you very much for those pics of Jon and Rob. Those truly made my Sunday.
P.S. Sullivan is a kick ass name.
Wow, was this practically a universally liked Hottie blog? We should mark this on the calendar. "Post more Rob Lowe pictures...."
I might have to muster up some Tom Selleck pictures in the future. *LOL* He is cute. *LOL*
Oh boy - my teenage crushes? I had a few that will date me, but even as a teen I loved me some older men!
For my own age range I LOVED Alex P. Keaton (aka Micheal J. Fox) and Rick Schroder.
I adored Tom Selleck - he was the man! Also, Bruce Willis in Moonlighting - still love him to this day. Let's also not forget Pierce Brosnan on Remington Steele.
Sabrina, I totally tried to find a Michael J Fox picture from his early years but couldn't find one I liked.
Bruce Willis from Moonlighting! How could I have forgotten? Damn!
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