Thanks to Michelle Styles and Cat Marters, my Bitchery correspondents from across the pond, I have a link that gave Candy and myself a good half-hour of enjoyment. Seems the RNA has voted amongst its membership to come up with the perfect romantic heroes. Details? But of course!
Members of the Romantic Novelists’ Association have voted Johnny Depp as the Number One Perfect Romantic Hero in a poll to mark Valentine’s Day. According to these authors, a romantic hero should be gorgeous, deliciously sexy, intensely masculine and have a commanding presence.
‘We should be qualified to judge,’ one writer commented. ‘After all, we create these heroes on paper every day.’
The top ten male celebrities voted the Perfect Romantic Hero were:
1. Johnny Depp
2. Daniel Craig
3. Sean Bean
4. Richard Armitage
5. Hugh Jackman
6. Colin Firth
7. Alan Rickman
8. Pierce Brosnan
9. George Clooney
10. David TennantA second poll, taken by members of the RNA bravely admitting to being ‘over a certain age’, voted for male celebrities over fifty who’ve ‘still got it’. Remarkable for his appearance on both polls, Pierce Brosnan took the crown for the over fifties by a huge margin.
The top ten Over-Fifty Perfect Romantic Heroes were:
1. Pierce Brosnan
2. Harrison Ford
3. Ranulph Fiennes
4. Bill Nighy
5. Liam Neeson
6. Sam Neill
7. Sean Connery
8. Peter O’Toole
9. Clint Eastwood
10. Omar Sharif
Sarah: I can think of many dudes who would make a better romantic hero than some of these fellows.
And what is up with the homogenized list o’ white dudes?
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I could say something relatively erudite and profound about the subjective nature of reading and how each reader interacts with the material in a closed system of engagement that is highly dependent on their idiosyncrasies, psychological landscape and cultural environs. …
Lol, Melissandre that picture of Wrath is totally Peter Steele from the band Type O Negative.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Steele
Goes to look for images of wrestlers…and Oh my…I maybe they are all /NOT/ steroid pumped up men. These muscles actually look natural. And that one already has the black work Tattoo…hum..
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_xQB6vjCswXQ/RshxHQOwTaI/AAAAAAAAABE/KuB5vqwN9nk/s1600/5116064[1].jpg
OMG, closetcrafter, I would now KILL to see someone redo this video with pro wrestlers and death metal.
Or, yanno, rap, since the Brotherhood are the whitest black brothers out there. Sigh.
Really tempted to get one of these. Will be keeping an eye on the reviews!!
