Defamer
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]
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As long as it's "Sexiest Man Alive," Vincent Schiavelli doesn't have a shot.
I've seen him in real life, and he didn't really do it for me, but watching him whip out the krav maga on the bad guys in Bourne Ultimatum kind of made me swoon. Then again, my dizziness might just have been caused by Greengrass' camerawork instead.
Could they not find an actual sexy picture of him for their freaking COVER?
While others might send him lacy panties, I'm going to be sending him my sweat-stained jockstrap.
Loves it.
Yeah what is it with that cover picture?? The only thing missing is a bolt coming out of the side of his neck.
At least they didn't pick Tom Cruise. People Magazine is so far up TomKat's ass, I wouldn't put it past them.
@Pooks: Yea, his head is a little Frankensteinesque.
He's taken hotter photos. All that clean living is killing him. Couldn't someone have doused him with something wet and sparkley?
They needed a better person working Photoshop.
In my book, any list that includes the words "sexiest","Affleck" and "Timberlake" doesn't count.
Agreed. He has one of the sexiest smiles in Hollywood; they couldn't find a shot featuring that? You actually have to work to make him look less than hot.
Where's Clive Owen when I need him? I prefer Viggo to domesticated Matt.
However, Matt was extraordinary in THE TALENTED MR. RIPLEY...but sexiest, mais non.
When is everyone gonna realize that the sexiest man in Hollywood is Benecio del Toro? When he finally gets a leading-man role, I guess. There's something for the striking writers to work on.
The three guys they listed in the "plus" section are all way hotter than Matt Damon. I don't get it. He looks like a bat.
He looks like he could be the guy at the grocery store next to you... or your kids teacher... I don't find that very sexy. He's got a sweet, good-natured charm, but he doesn't make me melt like George.
He looks like his character in Team America: World Police. For those of you that haven't seen it, that character is "retarded marionette version of Matt Damon".
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