[HPFGU-OTChatter] Crushes (from an older main list post)

[Amanda Lewanski]

bennmatt at yahoo.com wrote:

> So-o...who *did* you all dote on as a teen and how do they compare on
> the Lockhart-embarrassment scale?

Hmm. I *still* like my early crushes....

Very First would have to be Christopher Lee, specifically as Dracula in
the wonderful old awful Hammer pics. We're talking about 8 or 9 years
old, here.
About 11, came along Peter O'Toole, specifically in Lord Jim, and The
Biggie, embers still gently warming a secret corner of my heart, James
Mason. First as Captain Nemo, the enigmatic, the mysterious, the dark
and bearded, but I caught an afternoon show of a wonderful movie called
"A Touch of Larceny," (alas, never released on video) which is a truly
wonderful movie full of Mason doing understated humor, and I was caught
for life. Alan Rickman's a rank newcomer compared to these three, and my
husband has noted how unusual my passion for Alan Rickman is, since he's
not (a) dead or (b) sixty years my senior.....

--Amanda

P.S. -- I am delighted to report that James Mason's middle name was
Neville.


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