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Rainn Wilson: King Of The Hot Nerds

Seth — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 20:52:39 EST

· People wasn't entirely off the sexy nerd tip: Check out this sexy video of Rainn Wilson getting frisky in a swimming pool and riding a very macho all-terrain vehicle.
· Bored of green tea and chai? You might enjoy some piping hot Dr. Pepper! (And if you want to slip a little rum in there, we won't tell.)
· 2.89 million people watched Project Runway's premiere last night, and one of those people was Santino Rice at some lucky bastard's viewing party.
· Happy Milli Vanilli's House of Lip-Synched Cards Comes Crashing Down On Them Day, everybody!

'Sexiest Man Living' List Recognizes New Zealand's Hottest Comedy Troubadours

Seth — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:45:34 EST

If this year's "Sexiest Man Alive" issue of People left you wanting—sure, few of us would argue with their choice of sexiestest man Matt Damon, but the Shemar Moore-caliber also-rans were frequently lacking—we direct you instead to Salon.com's Sexiest Man Living 2007. Bringing together 26 of the hunkiest guys for the thinking woman and Gay, their list recognizes the pasty, the paunchy, the bespectacled (Ira Glass, Judd Apatow, 2007 Alec Baldwin, etc.) celebrities that send their editors into a sexy-man lather.

And no shortlister seemed to us more worthy of recognition than the infinitely boneable guys from Flight of the Conchords:

A guy with a guitar is hot. A guy with an accent is hot. And a guy who can make us laugh is really, really hot. What, then, could be better than a man who embodies all of the above? Two men who do. [...]
Separately, they're adorable, but together, they enter a pantheon of witty troubadours that includes Jonathan Richman, They Might Be Giants and Jonathan Coulton — men who are a little bit Bruce, a little bit Groucho, and more than a little appealing. And though we may love Bret for his reedy shyness and Jemaine for his inexplicable overconfidence, what we love best about them is how appealing they are together.

Now that their sexy secret is out, we imagine Mel will find herself facing a far greater pool of eager candidates vying to become the cheese in a Jemaine/Bret sandwich. Don't be surprised if it inspires the band's number-one fan to issue her own, anti-anti-sexy man list response, with the release of a special "Sexiest Fourth Most Popular Guitar-Based Digi-Bongo Acapella-Rap-Funk-Comedy Folk Duo From New Zealand Alive" issue of her bi-monthly Conchords fanzine.

Sexiest Man Living 2007 [Salon]

Lobbying By Clooney, Pitt Leads Matt Damon To 'Sexiest Man Alive' Win

Mark — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 12:45:22 EST

This week's special issue of People—perhaps the magazine's second-most anticipated installment behind its annual Baby Bumps, Secret Weddings, and Conspicuous Nose Jobs spectacular—brings some happy news: Matt Damon will wear the magazine's Sexiest Man Alive tiara for the next 12 months, a choice that may indicate a seismic shift in the criteria it uses to select its honorees; if this newly established precedent holds, we may be entering a Golden Age of Sexy Lists in which less conventionally handsome Hollywood stars (work out all you want, Matt, you still have the face of a cherub who can't quite lose those last three pounds of baby-angel fat) can compete on equal footing with the throbbing slabs of leading-man-beef who tend to dominate the glossies' evaluations of Hollywood hunksmanship. People explains its choice:

George Clooney and Brad Pitt have shamelessly campaigned for him since 2001, but this year's winner was Bourne to the title. "You've given an aging suburban dad the ego-boost of a lifetime," Damon, 37, told PEOPLE, explaining why he couldn't possibly accept the crown - which perfectly demonstrates many of the reasons we chose him in the first place: irresistible sense of humor, rock solid family man, heart-melting humility.

While Damon will doubtlessly enjoy the temporary ego-gains of receiving hourly shipments of oversized lacy underthings from the most easily excitable segment of People's readership, he'll probably soon wake up to the same kind of sobering prank Clooney suffered last year. Upon flipping through tomorrow's copy of Variety, he shouldn't be surprised to see a a full-page photo his Sexiest-predecessor co-stars promised would never become public, in which the normally image-conscious Damon, after having allowed himself an open-bar bender at the Ocean's 13 wrap party, is shown passed out in the back of Pitt's limousine, caked in the hardening chocolate of the dessert fountain he'd repeatedly thrust his head into for the drunken amusement of his crew.

Sexiest Man Alive 2007[People.com]