and I was looking up picture of him when I came across this blog.

Personally I’ve never seen Soul Man but from what I’ve heard about it I think that I might find it a bit offensive. I think it might be a funny movie and that there probably were good intentions behind it.

Being African American I still don’t feel that a movie like soul man will change my celebrity crush on Howell though because after seeing him in Jailbait there was no turning back!

I remember when I was younger, imagining being rescued by yes, none other than Randolph Mantooth (John Gage) [which, in hindsight, i find hysterical, since I am still terrified of needles]…I don’t see how he would have been able to start the IV with D5W ringers lactate on me!!! I also had a “secret” even bigger crush on Dr. Kelly Bracket (Robert Fuller). Secret because I was incredibly young…much younger than him, and I knew he would never fall in love with me…but there were the silly thoughts that he would adopt me.

Then the miraculous thing happened. The Hardy Boys series started, and Shaun Cassidy was in my room every Sunday night for an hour, until I started recording the programs, and then he came into my room nightly. It was wonderful. I watched the episodes over and over and over again. I bought every issue of any and every magazine that might have even the smallest photo of him in it, and would carefully cut each one out of the publication, then painstakeingly tape the back in a manner that would allow me to remove the photo from the wall without damaging wall or photo in any way. Photos that were as small as ½ inch square were big enough to make it up onto the wall montage, and they did. Looking back now, I had a freaking shrine to this man.

Oh well. I still think he is amazingly cute, and would still go out with Shaun/Steve (or whatever he is going by these days)!!!

Then I moved on to John Taylor of Duran Duran. I was mad crazy about them and still go to see them in concert.

Some of my other crushes were:

(a) Stephen Collins (“Tales of the Gold Monkey” tv show) who later became the dad on “7th Heaven” which I never actually watched.

(b) Jameson Parker who played AJ Simon in the tv show “Simon and Simon”. He apparently had/has a role on “JAG” recently.

(c) C. Thomas Howell from The Outsiders.

(d) Davey Jones from The Monkees.

My current crushes are George Clooney and Clive Owen. They have been designated as my “freebies” by Mr. Subdivided. So if George or Clive are reading this….I have a list, you are both on it and it’s laminated (<< name the source of the last phrase).

TUESDAY’S SHOW: David Cassidy and The Cosby Kids: Where Are They Now?

Watch a room full of grown women lose their minds and their clothes–David Cassidy is here! Then, the Cosby kids are all grown up.

If we come to 2008 – Jennifer Anniston… who could blame a guy??

But even he was surpassed by my crush on Starsky (of “and Hutch” fame) otherwise known as Paul Michael Glaser. I was crushed when I read in Tiger Beat or Teen Beat that he had married a former schoolteacher named Elizabeth — yes the Elizabeth Glaser that went on to found the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation after she contracted AIDS from a blood transfusion and unknowingly passed it to her children. Talk about a hero.

So be it. I was.

My crushes included Adam West, who played Batman in the old series that repeated while my mother made dinner; David Cassidy, who’s hair flipped back as well as Shaun’s; and then Greg Lake of Emerson, Lake, and Palmer.

Current crush? Hugh Dancy, Andrew McCarthy, Colin Firth (as Darcy in P&P and Bridget Jones I but not II, for some reason).