It pains me to compose (wrote that initially as compost) this post, but I fear I must. This hurts me more than it hurts you.
I have always adored this guy. After all, his band's name came from Barbarella, so everything that follows must be tolerably cool, right? He was not the prettiest young man, but he had a look that was solid bank in the e
arly 80s.
Flash forward these two+ decades, and things are getting a bit rough around the edges. Hot and sexy heart-throb must be a vile pedestal to fall from, but a bit of perspective might serve one well in this instance. I'd say abandon the whole fashionista/must-not-age, dammit!/overly-groomed aesthetic and embrace the doughy, loping onset of middle-agedom in a way the rest of us all can respect. After all, his wife is still a supermodel, and he's prolly a gajillionaire.
When one starts listing toward the Lady Elaine Fairchild dropoff, I advise one to let go of the preenery that makes one look like a subject for menwholooklikeoldlesibans.com and embrace the regular-guy-him-on-holiday look in the bottom photo. It's more real, and
it's way more sexy.
That's my opinion, for what it's worth. Okay. It ain't worth much. But it needed to be said.
I have always adored this guy. After all, his band's name came from Barbarella, so everything that follows must be tolerably cool, right? He was not the prettiest young man, but he had a look that was solid bank in the e
arly 80s.Flash forward these two+ decades, and things are getting a bit rough around the edges. Hot and sexy heart-throb must be a vile pedestal to fall from, but a bit of perspective might serve one well in this instance. I'd say abandon the whole fashionista/must-not-age, dammit!/overly-groomed aesthetic and embrace the doughy, loping onset of middle-agedom in a way the rest of us all can respect. After all, his wife is still a supermodel, and he's prolly a gajillionaire.
When one starts listing toward the Lady Elaine Fairchild dropoff, I advise one to let go of the preenery that makes one look like a subject for menwholooklikeoldlesibans.com and embrace the regular-guy-him-on-holiday look in the bottom photo. It's more real, and
it's way more sexy.That's my opinion, for what it's worth. Okay. It ain't worth much. But it needed to be said.
10 comments:
Man, I used to think he was hotter than the sun. Now, not so much. I imagine the pressure is incredibly great for such an 80's icon to hang onto his looks by hook or crook. It's probably not as bad for men as for women, though.
Yikes!To bad. What a loss.
for a kid's show, Mr. Rogers sure had the creepiest puppets!
The 90's were not kind to him.
Oh well maybe he can do a reunion tour and recapture the magic.
Hey, he's a rail. I should post shots from my "large years".
christina - terrible pressure, that. I still think he's attractive, but wish he didn't look surgeried
lainy - oh well
breda - _I_ always thought so, too!
hammer - hee. Actually , they seem to have weathered the time fairly well, and have the occasional hit to carry them through. At least it's not just playing all oldies and "remember when...?"
fhb - I wasn't calling him fat - I said being a regular guy is sexier than being a surgically-altered peter pan
OK. . I have to admit. I pretty missed the entire 80's as I had two jobs, one in LA and one in Missorui, a slacker husband, family, dogs, cats, a couple hundred texas longhorns and the in laws from hell.
Who IS he?????
lin M - oh, you were having a LIFE? He's Simon LeBon of Duran Duran.
Oh, well in that case, good on ya. Sorry.
wow. . well I guess I missed that that whole decade. . seriously. . but trust me. . I've made up for it since the divorce in 95. Music wise anyway. :-)
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