Eating my words - Crushes - Books you can't stop reading

[Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., driveslucy at a... wrote:
> Heidi was right and I was wrong.  Chatter is a cool place to hang 
> out. Turns out I am an OT kinda gal.  Who knew?

Welcome.

> I read my first Dorothy L. Sayers mystery at about 16.  These are 
> also books I can't stop reading, even though I know them 
> practically word for word.  

I started them a little younger and read them several times each, but 
not in the last decade or two.

> First teen crush was probably David McCallum.  Oooo Ilya Kuryakin! 

You and everyone else who was a little girl when The Man from 
U.N.C.L.E. was in original release --- such as me. One of the show's 
scriptwriters lived around the corner from my family and gave 
U.N.C.L.E. membership cards and some other nicknack to all the kids 
in the neighborhood, but at that age I was already very annoyed that, 
just because I was a girl, I had to accept being put in Clerical 
Section without being asked my preference. A couple of years ago, 
Terry Gross (Fresh Air) interviewed David McCallum (I don't remember 
what he was publicity touring at the time) and she gave an 
embarrassed little laugh and admitted "I had a big crush on you when" 
she was little and he was Ilya Kuryakin --- I was deeply impressed 
that such a tough and realistic woman (at least as interviewer!) had 
had a childhood crush!
 
> On this side of the pond I swoon over Gene Wilder and John Lithgow.

I quite fancied Gene Wilder when he and I were both younger. My 
friends told me that I wouldn't have been able to fancy him if I'd 
seen him with the sheep in Woody Allen's Everything You Wanted to 
Know About Sex etc. OTOH I saw his role as the Fox in The Little 
Prince, which was pathetic.