Crushes (from an older main list post)

[Barb]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Horst or Rebecca J. Bohner" 
<bohners at p...> wrote:
> Hm... I can't think of anything TOO embarrassing.  I think my first 
> real crush was on Pierce Brosnan in REMINGTON STEELE.  And you know 
> HE'S aged rather well...

Ahem! I'll let you know when my thing for Pierce Brosnan is over...if 
it ever happens...
 
> When I was a bit younger and not really in the "crush" phase yet 
> but old enough to know what my idea of handsome was, my friends 
> were all crazy about Shaun Cassidy, but *my* favorite of the TV 
> Hardy Boys was Parker Stevenson. After STAR WARS came out, I also 
> decided that I preferred Harrison Ford, even though all my friends 
> thought Mark Hamill was "the cutest".  And I never had the 
> *slightest* interest in Leif Garrett, Scott Baio, or Donny Osmond --
> I thought they were all dorky-looking.  So on the whole, I'm rather 
> proud of my good taste.  :)

This is just spooky; you'd think we were separated at birth.  I was 
the only girl in a group of a half-dozen who liked Parker Stevenson 
better than Sean Cassidy (too, I don't know, TOOTHY, I guess).  I 
also preferred Harrison Ford to Mark Hamill (who reminded me 
remarkably of Parker and Sean).  I never went for Leif Garrett, but 
wasn't he in James at 16?  The show was pretty good anyway, 
especially for depicting teens realistically in ways that no one 
would dare today (the country's gotten rather prudish, IMHO).

My sister (I'm telling tales out of school now!) crushed on Donny 
Osmond, David Cassidy and Bobby Sherman, and I simply could NOT 
understand why.  We had to share a bedroom until I was 9 and she was 
15, and she played Sherman's records all the time.  To this day, when 
I hear a Bobby Sherman song, I start to feel physically ill.


--Barb