InStyle: What's Sexy Now!

[Ace]

Entertainment Tonight

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Who's Sexy Now!
August 15, 2003


Salma Hayek on September In Style


Brad... J.Lo... Halle... Ben... Who do you consider to be the sexiest stars in Hollywood? InStyle magazine's took an online poll of who you think has the goods -- and we have the results! Tonight on ET, find out who landed the "sexy" stamp of approval!

In the must-have "What's Sexy Now" September issue, on stands August 22nd, BRAD PITT won "Sexiest Sex Symbol" for the third time -- a first in the history of the poll. Brad's other half, JENNIFER ANISTON, was named "Sitcom Star with Greatest Comic Timing & Sex Appeal." Beating out BEN and JEN, the Hollywood pair was also voted "Celebrity Couple with Most Sizzle."

Packing an Oscar® and boffo Bond box office, HALLE BERRY nabbed "Actress with the Most Enviable Sex Appeal." Meanwhile, stealthy "Alias" hunk MICHAEL VARTAN stole the "Sexiest Male TV Drama" vote and covert co-star JENNIFER GARNER earned the "Sexiest Getting-Hotter-by-the-Moment Female Star" and "Sexiest Female TV Drama Star" nods.

As for "Sexiest Singer You Would Most Like to Serenade You," it was almost a three-way tie, with ENRIQUE IGLESIAS edging out STING and LENNY KRAVITZ by only three percent. Other kooky categories include "Sexiest Star Laid Off From 'The Practice'" (DYLAN McDERMOTT), "Big-Screen Hero You'd Most Like to Whisk You to Safety" (Ben Affleck) and "Name of Diva Found in the Dictionary When You Look Up the Word 'Sexy'" (Jennifer Lopez).

Also featured in the phone-book-sized issue are 17 celebrities who define sexy, from reigning pop queen BRITNEY SPEARS to SALMA HAYEK, DUANE "The Rock" JOHNSON, PIERCE "007" BROSNAN and hot couple CHARLIE SHEEN and DENISE RICHARDS.

The InStyle "What's Sexy Now" September issue hits newsstands August 22nd.

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Halle is packing "boffo Bond Box office" Oh yeah..... right....

Ace

[sparklingblue]

Hah. "Sexiest Singer You Would Most Like to Serenade You" = Pierce Brosnan (for me). ;D

[curious george]

I would say the largest number of names in that group is a very sad commentary on our society!

cg

[sparklingblue]

I agree with you on that, CG.

[Ace]

I flipped thorugh the magazine and it's freaking huge with about 9/10ths seemingly ads. Anyhow all the "what's sexiest now" photos are small (guess they needed more room for ads) His is of the one from the UK Esquire Dec 2002 shoot that also appears in the Business week article... side by side with Michelle Pfeiffer with the caption. I think it's this one, maybe without the wink...



Sexiest over 40: (I'm paraphrasing) In Hollywood veteran usually means over the hill, but not for Pierce Brosnan and Michelle Pfieffer who are still effortlessly sexy. (of course looking at the pages there seem to be quite a few over 40 including Brad Pitt, Viggo Mortenson, etc but they were just in different categories... so... )

Ace

[curious george]

I don't understand why for these kinds of things magazines keep using what I don't think are the most flattering pictures of him. :: shrugs ::

cg

[Yuliya]

They just need a reason not to put him on the cover page. Sigh.

[Ace]

Oh pooh... is this about the clean shaven thing again? I love that photo and the entire set it comes from; dead sexy. Regardless the photo is sooo small in the mag, about 2x3 inches tops it hardly matters what photo they chose.

Ace

[Yuliya]

I don't like this photo for unrelated reasons that are hard to explain here. Let's just say this closed eye reminds me of some unpleasant sight. But I like the rest of the photoshoot. Still, CG's comment is so true in some cases.

[Ace]

LOL, is his wink scaring you? I don't think he's winking in the mag photo but it's the same pose.

I think most of his cover photos are pretty darn great or are chosen for a purpose. Like the latest Empire as Bond where he's scowling... not his most flattering look but they wanted him to look mean so it fit.

But the most glaring example of a photo not fitting... the cover magazine photo on the People: Sexiest Man Alive where he looked strangely pasty with a stiff grin... and every other photo from that set looked great... so why pick that one? And the one on the inside flap of the magazine in the jeans and black shirt... even better and much more sexy.

Ace

[curious george]

Ace said:

Oh pooh... is this about the clean shaven thing again?
Ace

As a matter of fact, no. It's the facial expression, the position he's sitting in - I just don't think the whole thing is well-posed. So there.

cg

[sparklingblue]

I like this photo, and the others from this series. They are fun and sexy. The only "negative" thing is that imho the lighting makes his hair look greyer than it is.

[Yuliya]

Ace said:

LOL, is his wink scaring you?

His wink and facial expression remind me of a sertain person whose face permanently looks like that - and don't think the guy is handsome or sexy. It took me a while to get used to his face, for a while, every time I saw him, it came as quite a shock.

I happen to like the SMA cover.

[Yuliya]

Ace, you're soooo disqualified! It's not even that the Esquire photo in In Style is slightly different from the one you posted - it has both eyes open. But there is another picture of PB a few pages earlier - a full page photo of him reclining on some washed out tree on a beach, barefoot, wearing blue jeans and navy shirt, unbuttoned just enough to show a pendant (but not only), unshaved, his hair uncut, and a few Matisse-like paintings by his side. Absobloodylutely fantastic! I'm thinking of buying the magazine just for it, but I probably won't.

[Ace]

Well excuse me,

1) I said the photo was different and maybe w/o the wink

2) I had to get back to work... I didn't have time to read through that entire wrist breaker, when I couldn't even find the bloody index and it took me long enough to find that one small idiotic section.

3) DROOL............................ on the description of that photo

But $6.50 for one photo? Hmmm, maybe I'll just steal it from the library if they have it... oops... did I say that outloud?

Ace

[Yuliya]

Ace said:

Well excuse me,

1) I said the photo was different and maybe w/o the wink

Mea culpa. I didn't read it. I was too distracted by the photograph.

2) I had to get back to work... I didn't have time to read through that entire wrist breaker, when I couldn't even find the bloody index and it took me long enough to find that one small idiotic section.

Those magazines are terrible; I spent half of the time looking for the table of contents, but then the right picture wasn't hard to find. It's on page 47-something, a few pages before the Esquire photo.

3) DROOL............................ on the description of that photo

This weekend find the longest line at your local grocery store. Trust me, you won't regret it.

Yikes at the price; I thought it was less, but you're right, it's a double issue, it should be more expensive.

[Ace]

Finally got a chance to leaf through the magazine again.... DROOL... the man and his art work... sexy.

Unfortunately my library doesn't have it so I can't even steele or copy from it.

Ace

[sparklingblue]

I'd buy it, but I don't live in the US.

[Ace]

Kelly has the photo up on her site!

www.websteele.com/elr/

www.websteele.com/elr/pictures/pierce/InStyle_2003-09_p478.jpg

DROOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Ace

[sparklingblue]

::gasps::

Is it legal to look so good??