It’s the day before my wedding anniversary, and so what better way to celebrate it than to write a blog post about women other than my wife that I am sexually attracted to.
First of all I need to get rid of Kerry. Hang on.
There, there’s no way she’s going to get her eyes past that.
So anyway, I was making my rounds this morning and I saw that Avitable had posted an excerpt from the movie Teen Wolf. I clicked play and was merrily lost in good clean nostalgia when suddenly, there she was. A vision of pure loveliness.
Boof.
Just in case you are not familiar with the seminal work that is Teen Wolf (1985) – Boof (played by Susan Ursitti) was the best friend of main character Scott Howard (Michael J Fox). As is often the way in such movies she was in love with Scott but he was too blind to see it. He choose instead to chase after some cheerleader or other, which was always completely baffling to me. I mean, she was Boof for goodness sake! Everything that a man could possibly wish for!
Scott was also, of course, a werewolf. But instead of running around eating people he chose to use his Lycanthropy to play basketball. If only Oz from Buffy the Vampire slayer had thought of that I’m sure life would have been a lot easier.
Obviously Scott eventually saw sense and got it together with Boof, and everything ended happily ever after. The whole thing was a pretty tried and tested formula for teen movies in the 80s. Teen Wolf wasn’t quite as pretty as Pretty in Pink or as wonderful as Some Kind of Wonderful. But it was a lot more wolfy, and that counts for a lot in my book.
And, of course, it also featured Boof.
If you had told my adolescent self that one day there would be a time that I had forgotten my borderline obsession with that her I would have just laughed in your face. But forgotten her I had. Which got me thinking about all the my other celebrity crushes that have now faded into the recesses of my memory:
- Six from Blossom – Although I had a thing for Blossom too. But if I had to choose it would be Six all the way. I just couldn’t stand to have Joey Lawrence as a brother-in-law. Whoa.
- Pheobe Cates from Fast Times at Ridgemont High – Mmmmmm, Pheobe Cates.
- Boof from Teen Wolf – There is a joke here about hairy palms but I can’t bring myself to write it.
- Helen Slater from Secret of my Sucess – Another Michael J Fox co-star. That bloody midget gets all the girls.
- Jet from Gladiators – I liked it when she dueled with her pugil stick.
- Helen Hunt from Only You – I know there is a lot of bad feeling towards Hunt, but the film Only You was my first exposure to her and she was adorable in it.
Honorable mentions go to Power Girl and Jessica Rabbit, who both would have made the list if it were not for their absence of a corporial body.
So who were the subjects of your own teen crushes?
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 1:51 pm
I loved Winnie from The Wonder Years and Haley from The Wizard (who is now Jenny Lewis, part of the band Rilo Kiley).
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
I also had (have?) a bit of a thing for Jennifer Conneley, Alison Clarkson (aka Betty Boo), Sophie Aldred and Magenta DeVine.
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 2:25 pm
DCI Gene Hunt and Detective Goren from Law and Order Criminal Intent, either one could take down my particulars any time.
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 2:26 pm
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 3:34 pm
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
I can’t really think of any teen crushes I had, unless you count Joey from the New Kids On The Block.
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
tatjana simic (Dutch model) got to be honest..she was hot.
Kylie Minogue..still hot!
But my teen years aren’t that far behind me ;)
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Back in the day I never missed an episode of “21 Jump Street,” all the while pining after baby-faced Johnny Depp.
He was cute then, but now he’s HOT!!
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 5:36 pm
Paula Abdul
Gloria Estefan
The big sister from the wonder years…
**sigh**
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
David Ginola looked awful in that hair commercial, Sean Bean, Brad Pitt, Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow – all gorgeous with a bit of sweat and grease.
How do you guys like your girls, clean and sweet or a bit grubby?
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 6:40 pm
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 9:20 pm
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on Mar 20th, 2008 at 9:39 pm
Ed, that little girl from Escape To Witch Mountain was Kim Richards. When she grew up she became quite yummilicious. Is that a word?
I also had crushes on:
Melissa Gilbert (Laura, on Little House)
Melissa Sue Anderson (Mary, on Little House)
Kami Cotler (Elizabeth, on The Waltons)
Phoebe Cates
Brooke Shields
Tracee Talavera (1984 Olympic Gymnast)
Katarina Witt (German figure skater)
Clare Grogan (Altered Images, Gregory’s Girl)
Jenny Seagrove (Local Hero)
Jennifer Jason Leigh
Lisa Bonet (Denise, on The Cosby Show)
Maureen McCormick (Marcia, on The Brady Bunch)
Barbara Feldon (Agent 99, on Get Smart)
Diana Rigg (Emma Peel, on The Avengers)
Uh-oh, now it looks like I was a teenage freak. Yeah, I probably was.
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on Mar 21st, 2008 at 3:58 am
I also had a huge thing for Six (Jenna Van Oy… and there is actually a video of her stripping on MetaCafe somewhere from a movie), Melissa Gilbert, Soleil Moon Frye, and I had it for Elisabeth Shue bad.
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on Mar 21st, 2008 at 9:28 am
I think we should leave this post at the top for a while. Or perhaps I can amend the header picture.
Oh, happy anniversary babes!
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on Mar 21st, 2008 at 11:28 am
Oh, and happy anniversary to you both! It’s also 4 years to the day since I met Tony at another friends wedding… he bagged the bridesmaid!
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on Mar 21st, 2008 at 2:18 pm
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on Mar 21st, 2008 at 6:16 pm
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on Mar 21st, 2008 at 8:02 pm
Sigourney Weaver – yeah, I know…that shot of her in “Alien”, seen bending over from behind with her bum cleavage peeking out from above the hemline of her briefs, was the subject of many an adolescent fantasy…
Sally James – Tiswas in general went a long way towards warping my sexuality for good; and the sight of Sally being doused in baked beans played no small part in this…
Marilyn Monroe – an obvious one; however, Marilyn’s routine with her guitar on the train in “Some Like It Hot” was more than enough to make me a life-long fan…
Penelope Pitstop – the sexiest cartoon glamourpuss of them all! As a friend of mine said, ‘It was the way she cried “hay-elppp!” – I was more interested in helping myself…
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on Mar 21st, 2008 at 9:26 pm
Kerry, wot no Christopher Eccleston – when did he get relegated?
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on Mar 21st, 2008 at 10:14 pm
PandoraCaitiff – Sophie Aldred! How could i have forgotton Ace!
Morticia – Lurch? Why does that not surprise me?
CamiKaos – Naturally, she married me after all.
Jason – About as hot as they come.
Joe – She was rather nice in Heathers.
Miss Britt – I think Joey counts
Tracy – i can certainly see Christian Slater’s appeal.
Arjan – Never been much of a Kylie admirer myself.
Donna – Check out Bon Bon’s blog, she has a picture of him looking decrepit.
Ed – I don’t think i’ve ever seen that, but a few people have mentioned her so she must have had something about her.
Xbox4NapyRash – Again with the Kylie, must be something about living in Holland.
Gail – Dirty haggard men who need a wash – just about sums me up. Although not in a good way unfortunately.
Kerry – No nothing. move along, nothing to see here
Hygiene Dad – Harrison ford? It was the whip wasn’t it, admit it.
Phil – you dirty little bugger. That list is longer than our phone book.
NYCWD – I came across that video when I was looking for a picture of her. i watched it, but only in the name of research you understand.
Helen – I can forgive Kerry her crushes seeing as though they are al on fine figures in geek culture.
Holmes – i’ve always thought Molly Ringwald’s name sounds like a social disease.
Trey – I have no idea who that is unfortunatly
Momo Fali – I think you’ll have to join the back of the queue.
Luis – Hey-elppp indeed.
Grandma – I know, i think she’s got a bit of a thing for Time Lords. It’ll be Tom Baker next.
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on Mar 21st, 2008 at 10:38 pm
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on Mar 22nd, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Carol Decker from T’Pau.
Jackie Wright from Grange Hill.
Other than them, and Mia Sara (?) from Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, I can’t remember. You caught me in feeling old mode… memory’s given up.
There were definitely others though.
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on Mar 22nd, 2008 at 11:20 pm
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on Mar 25th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
Phoebe Cates, especially in a picture spread from one of mums magazines where she was wearing lots of lace and a leather mini – sigh.
Elf from Dungeons and Dragons
Tegan(Dr Who assistant)
Jenna (Blakes Seven, who appeared much less attractively in Emmerdale some years later)
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on Jan 8th, 2009 at 3:15 am
So it’s not just me.
I saw the last 5 minutes of the movie on cable, and had to google the cute girls same, hence my visit to this blog. Very funny.
Teen crush?
Rosanna Arquette in Desp.Seeking susan (Madonna, too)
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