Greg:
Agree completely about Evangeline Lily on
Lost, who I think is amazing. Conversely Michelle Rodriguez, who is often spoken of as being an uber-hottie, does abosolutely nothing for me.
One way I can tell who I go for and who I don't is the "flipping or scrolling" test. If I'm scrolling through a web page or flipping through either the TV channels or the pages of a magazine, I'll naturally catch glimpses of plenty of women, most of which barely register consciously. Generally speaking, I'll just keep looking for the article I'm trying to find or a show that looks like it is worth watching. But sometimes I'm compelled by something I've seen to go back and check out one of those barely-glimpsed babes. I don't think I've ever flipped past a picture or a moving image of Evangeline Lily, Marilyn Monroe, Ingrid Bergman, Natasha Henstridge or Rita Hayworth (to name just a few off the top of my head) without going back - and most of the time I don't even know who they are until I do go back. I just see enough for my personal "hot babe" detector to register that a second look is in order.

But I can see and recognize pictures of many women widely considered attractive and not even slow down.
(This also happens in real life. I used to work in a large open-plan office that took up the whole floor of a building. There was a hot blonde that worked in a different area of the floor, and I was constantly catching a glimpse of her out of the corner of my eye without recognizing who she was, just that a "hot babe" had come within visual range. At that point my head would involuntarily swivel in her direction and I'd realize who it was. As far as I can tell she never noticed this, thanks to distance and the fact that she was rarely looking in
my direction, but my boss found it very funny. I eventually trained myself not to look at that particular women to escape the jokes.)
Here's one who may end up in my "no flip" list - Mexican actress Ana de la Reguera, who really deserves to be in better movies than her current film,
Cop Out. Some of you will remember her as Sister Encarnacion in
Nacho Libre.



Regards,
Joe