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SEPTEMBER 27, 2009 7:50PM

It's Not Necrophilia If You Don't Dig Them Up

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Years ago when I first started working in event production for the entertainment industry we teasingly called my girlfriend Carol "Star Slut" because being incredibly beautiful and incredibly outgoing she could easily snare the attention of nearly any given male celebrity around us.   One day when we were getting slap-happy with overwork during a charity event I took to writing on a giant whiteboard the names of dead celebrities I thought Carol should have scored with.  The list included illustrious, and recently dead, names like Hervé Villechaize and Cesar Romero (in Joker attire bien sûr.)

So, since you all had so much fun last week listing the living celebrities you would sleep with given half a chance, this week I thought we'd play the same game with dead ones!  Come on!  It's not morbid! You know you've thought about it before.

To get the ball rolling - here's my short list!

cary_grant

 Cary Grant - but of course, he's probably on everyone's list.  I went to school with his daughter Jennifer and was lucky enough to meet him, although I was far too young to appreciate the moment in it's entirety. There is one episode I remember where all of my schoolmates'  mothers were gawking and fainting when he stepped out of the carpool line to flag Jennifer down to get into the car. Even in his seventies he was traffic stopping gorgeous.

genekelly

Gene Kelly- God that man could sing and dance.  Now, this is a decidedly oddball thing to mention, but I always loved the pants he wore in his movies.  I'm sure they were a byproduct of the era and the fact that he needed pants he could dance in, but ever since I have wished that they would make them for men today.  My husband has the kind of ass that would look great in a pair.

  david_niven

David Niven - he was suave, debonair and the best damn James Bond ever!  And really, one of the only men I've ever seen who could pull of a pencil thin moustache.

RayMilland

Ray Milland - He had the classic looks of his era, and that voice.  There was something seductively sinister about everything he said.  He was perfectly cast in Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder.

 

rex_harrison

Rex Harrison - Are you all detecting that I have a bent for suave Englishmen of yesteryear?  Not only did I love him in My Fair Lady, but he was just as sinister as Ray Milland in Midnight Lace.

  rickynelson

And in the wild card position... Ricky Nelson. I bet you didn't see this coming, did you?  I laid in bed and cried all day the day his plane crashed.  He was my first crush when he was on Ozzie and Harriet.

  bettie-paige

And if I was hitting for the other team... Bettie Paige.  Make what you will of that!

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Yes I am thoroughly aware that my title is very, very wrong. But once it occurred to me, I just couldn't shake it off.
The pastor tells me that it's necrophilia if I dig them at all...
sigh
((((surly)))) Stop with the posts already, I am dancing as fast as I can. What are you going for the record of the most posts in a day. I haven't even read this yet. You are stressing me out. Ok....wine...now...more wine. now. :)
noah... you're a bad boy

JK - It's football Sunday in this house. I can either screw around on OS or do the laundry and some of the work I've been procrastinating all weekend. I choose to screw around with the lot of you :)
The headline of this post almost put me off. And I'm not a movie buff, so my reaction was: oh, so that's Ray Milland.

But you hooked me with Bettie Paige. As an amateur photographer, I consider her a goddess.
My Fair Lady is my favorite musical ever. Rex Harrison, a pioneer womanizer in real life, did a fantastic job in the film. Bettie Paige is too skinny for my taste.

Rated.
Hey, I love the title. I had to come and read the post after that!

Cary Grant? yup, he'd be on my list. Henry Fonda? God, yes.

The rest....? Requires some thought, on my part. But I can go craaazy, because nobody's gonna get jealous!
Can we divide Cary Grant up according to movie? I pick him in Philadelphia Story, obviously. "Oh C. K. Dexter Haaaaaven!"
Rich - she was indeed.

Thoth - I wish someone would say that I am too skinny for their taste!

Shiral - Henry Fonda! Yes ma'am!

CK - We may have to fight over him in a few. I love him in all the comedy's and in Suspicion.
Surly - you can have him in everything else, except for maybe His Girl Friday.

So...

1. Cary Grant
2. Sidney Poitier
3. Omar Sharif
4. Peter O'Toole
5. Sean Connery
C.K. - nice list! I'm too intimidated by Sidney Poitier to make a move on him. I'd just stutter and be awestruck into stone if I got with 100 yards of him. And besides, he's not dead... yet ;)
Keeping the them from the previous list I'll start of with

Jane Mansfield ( The mother of #1 in the other list. How creepy is that)
Audrey Hepburn (especially with the Eliza Doolittle accent)
Greta Garbo ( got have the Swedish massage too)
Clara Bow ( in a flapper costume and I'll wear a Zoot suit)
Rita Hayworth (in this silk outfit http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/patc/hayworth/lifephoto.html)
Philip - That is a little creepy, but closer to kinky I think. I would kill to be Rita Hayworth in one of my lifetimes - she was fabulous.
You already know I dig (heehee) Rex Harrison and Cary Grant
so we'll add
Steve McQueen
William Holden
and OF COURSE Paul Newman
WalkAwayHappy - nice. William Holden was another dapper don. I, honest to God, do not get why men just don't look that dapper any more. Was is all the black and white photography?
I'd like to add Gregory Peck to my list
Oh my more handsome men I will never get to sleep. For me my honey was Gary Cooper oh be still my heart. There are others that will come with some sleep but Gary Cooper in Beau Geste or High Noon ....................oh man
I think the b&w had a lot to do with it. But honestly, I think men were just more dapper. Men today could take a lesson for sure.
Oh crap! Sorry Sidney! I got caught up in the moment and for got the deadness requirement. Ummm... I'll take Gregory Peck.
Yul Brynner...man, this list thing is REALLY hard!!!
I could just keep adding and adding and adding......
I never had any desire to sleep with David Niven.

R. Your titles are great!
Not sure, surly, but I think most of those guys played for the other team.
John - Thank you, I try ;)

Cap'n - it's highly likely... I've always been a bit of a fag hag :)
For me, Audrey Hepburn. Nice post! Great choices.
Steve - Nice choice! And thank you... I bet you're grateful not to be on this list ;)
Natalie Wood. Gorgeous, talented and charming.
jmgalt - Yes she was... and truly died too early.
Having worked with famous people a good part of my life I can say they would probably have to be dead.

But maybe Edie Sedgwick, but I'm pretty sure I did at some point. (Or at least a lot of chicks that looked like her.)

Gia for sure. (That's a no brainer.)

Karen Carpenter. (But fat Karen, not skinny Karen.)

Jonny Depp. He's not a girl, he's not dead, and I'm not gay. But I think it's a law or something that he has to be on any celebrity/sex oriented list. (Man, I wish I had that guy's agent.)

Twiggy. (Duhhhh.)

Natalie Wood. I'd trade all of them in for her. (She's the definition of hot. She's like hot with two Ts. Hott. If you dug her up right now she'd still be hotter than most girls that are breathing.)
Yul Brennar, Cary Grant, Greg Peck, Dean Martin, Peter Duel (Alias Smith and Jones), Rex Harrison from The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Claude Rains, (I do not know why), Humphrey Bogart, and Eddie Albert. You know I do not have time to be thinking about this all day but that's what I will be doing, thank you very much. You met Cary Grant? Wow.
Ronald Colman. Did you ever see that movie with him, Jean Arthur and Cary Grant? That's what heaven is, living in a house with those two. OH! And Charles Boyer in Gaslight, even though he was evil. Again I cannot stop.
Brian - Amen, on all points!

latethink - I used to live around the corner from Eddie Albert (and I was once babysat by his son.) He had this fabulous garden in his front yard and he would grow all kinds of vegetables. After my grandfather passed away he would come by and leave bouquets of fresh veggies at our gate for my grandmother and we teased my grandmother mercilessly that he was her suitor. He was a bona fide gentleman.
That's amazing! I think that came through in his acting, that he was a gentle, decent man. There was just something about him.
the men today, they sure could use more than a lesson. i think we are way too casual in how we dress, for one. those guys wore the best wool suits of all time, the wide collar, the nipped in waist, the full pants. also, they knew how to talk to people, especially women. there was a respect for the sexes thing going on that was good. see what we give up when we demand equality? we've got a passle of wimpy men today. and, where are the deep voices? have we so feminized our guys that this is what we are left with? it is a sad day indeed.
rated for the memories.
Errol Flynn - I did end up sleeping in one of his "beds" but it was long after his demise. He was a handsome bad boy and those are two hard to resist qualities for me.

Cary Grant - On my list too, he is the definition of suave. Clooney looks more and more like him, and Clooney is, of course, on my living list.

Montgomery Clift - Another sexy bad boy, but I sense he might not have been so great in the bedroom, too tortured? Too gay?!

Paul Newman - No explanation necessary here.

Steve McQueen - To me he is the epitome of cool, a handsome bad boy. That scene in the Thomas Crowne Affair with Faye D. playing chess ranks as one of the sexiest scenes ever. Check mate indeed!

Clark Gable - Just because, well, he's Clark Gable!
Debbs - yes, a sad day indeed.

Ablonde - I still swoon every time Clark Gable reads Scarlet the riot act.
Karen Carpenter and Audrey Hepburn. Good choices. But like the guy said, Karen at a reasonable weight, otherwise it really is kind of necrophilac. Actress thin, not model thin, much less insanely thin. What was she, 30 pounds underweight?
jmgalt- Yes, definitely at a healthier weight!
I'm with you on Carry. And I met Betty Page in a mental institution once (but we didn't do anything). Danny Kaye would definitely be on my short list, though he was, as I understand “hitting for the other side.” But if I was doing likewise, I would have to add Greta Garbo, too.

And remember, they're not really dead if you can still see them on film.

Thumbed for ingeniousness.
Brinna- I've always been a Danny Kaye lover, but I'm afraid I'd be in hysterics the entire time and we'd never get naked.
Debbs: NAILED IT!

I've given away more clothes than most girls will ever own.

My question for years now, has been: How do women not wind up going home with the wrong guy. How do you girls tell them apart from each other in the baseball caps, cargo shorts, t shirts, same damn haircut pack of generic man?

Oh. And I do have that voice. (Like you wouldn't believe.) And it has lead to many women when they meet me to go: "Oh, your not 6' 2", 250lbs. You're 6' and... Wow. Pretty damn skinny."

Oh well. Buy then it's usually too late for them anyway.

Eddie Albert. That would be a cool neighbor.
Hmmmm, lets see…

Janis Joplin (while doing LOTS of tequila body shots!)

Bettie Paige (iamsurly you perv! :D = she was so hot especially the BDSM stuff!)

Sappho (just so I can say I did the first queer poet chick!)

Tallulah Bankhead (one hot tootsie in her day!)

Greta Garbo (Grrrrrrwwwwwrrrr!!!)

Marlene Dietrich (Double Grrrrrrwwwwwrrrr!!!)

Crap! Pretty everybody else I’d do is still alive!


Oh, hell... I'll throw in Harriet Nelson and Donna Reed just so Ricky and you have company!
1. Modigliani
2. Jeff Buckley
3. Jim Morrison
4. Cary Grant
5. Michael Hutchence (from INXS)
BETTE PAIGE!!! and Felix Frankfurter.
Anita Morris for me.
I like the title. I have long thought the vow should be "Till decomposition we do part."
What JK said. Add to your (already stellar list): Everyone that latethink mentioned (minus Eddie Albert), plus: Raymond Burr, George Peppard (hot, hot hawt) and Steve McQueen. And Grandpa Munster. Only because I have never figured out a way to write about Grandpa Munster but do a mean imitation of him. ANd James Dean. Hellllllloooooooo?
Glenn Ford, love him....
Oliver Reed - frigging hey, in Three Musketeers, he got to me
(which reminds me, I should have said Rutger Hauer in the living list)
Paul Newman
Clark Gable
Frank Sinatra (sure he was a skinny guy when he was young...but...he's Frank)
I agree with you...I would dig every single piece of Cary Grant...but I prefer him fresher as in his earlier roles like in "His girl Friday":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iyMe1h2lAl4&feature=related

Paul Newman (as in "Cat on a Hot tin Roof"); Marlon Brando (as in " A street car named desire");
Shit! I forgot David Jansen (sp?) during his days on the Fugitive! And what about Mannix? He had something going for him too. And so did Telly Savalas (was his first name short for "Television"?) ;)
Totally James Dean. And Elvis. But the young Elvis; not the fat/bloated jump-suit-wearing Elvis. Oh, and Jim Morrison half-in-the-bag and maybe stoned...him--not me.
;-)
Brian - I've actually gone home with the wrong man before... and I'm gonna go with a mistaken identity based upon baseball cap misidentification.

Safe_Bet - Tallulah Bankhead! Nice! I always wanted to be Veronica Lake, but my hair would never play along.

Natalie - you narrowed that down nicely!

littlewillie - you ain't right, but you're right.

Paul - would you be willing to rewrite my vows when my husband and I do our vowel renewal?

cartouche - only you and JK can get away with calling me a beotch unscathed! Mannix! Gawd yes! Telly, when I'm going through a Greek phase (once a decade - they leave scars)

bmc - Glenn Ford - yes!

austin- you're gonna have to duke that out with C.K. Dexter Haven!

spotted - Yes to Jim Morrison and NO! No! no! to Elvis in the one piece rhinestone jumpsuit era!
Vivien Leigh & Audrey Hepburn.
stim - Vivian Leigh - oh she was beautiful wasn't she? Those eyes.
I'd probably do Bettie Paige too, cause you know, she knew how to get it done...

Hmmmm, 4 more, huh? This is tougher than I thought...I guess Marilyn Monroe, despite being a fairly obvious choice...how about Cleopatra, would that be weird?

Not too sure where else to go...starting to panic...how about Betsy Ross? No! Harriet Tubman? NO! C'mon, that ain't right!

I just don't know where to go with this...I liked Farrah well enough, but was more into some of the other "Angels"...and was never a big Anna Nicole fan...how about Marilyn Chambers, is she dead? I think so. Seems like she provided a certain inspiration when I was younger...

Ooooh, I got #5....How about Cartman's Mom? You know, Mary Kay Bergman...she did a lot of the original South Park voices....Kyle's Mom was a bitch, and Wendy Testaburger was a little young for me...but I'd do Cartman's Mom...
By reputation at least, you'd have to get in line to score with Sexy Rexy -- even as a corpse. And you're absolutely right -- I didn't see Ricky Nelson coming -- and I'll thank you to refrain from making any easy lewd rejoinders to that!
Oh, and here's someone you should add to your list of lovable live celebrities:

My Love Affair with Javier Bardem
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Sky Thug - talk about random choices! What? No Sherry Lewis of Lambchop fame!

Tom - it's no fair if you take away my right of rejoinders!
I don't think I fantasize about sleeping with celebrities. I always wanted Robert Redford to wash my hair, though. Oh, he's alive. But his character died, and Meryl Streep just kept smoking her cigarette when she found out.
Cindy - I am concerned about you. Let me just say that.
Is is necrophilia if you dig them up but don't get caught? I'm asking because...a friend wants to know.

(And you seem awful horny lately - not that I'm complaining)
Yes Harry it is. If you involve any kind of digging implement it is necrophilia by default.

My husband is feeling pretty bitter that I've been whoring my affections out to the rich and famous rather than giving it up at home.
I'll let that sorry bastard friend of mine know!

Ever thought of giving it up to the homeless and infamous?? I will hitchhike to CA for a sure thing.
Harry - hate to squash your dreams, but my husband gave me diamonds and he still can't call me a sure thing!
Probably before your time, but I must add Clark Gable to your list, and would accept an invitation from Spencer Tracy -- liked his intellect, attracted to bright men, and of the above of course Cary Grant, but Burt Lancaster might get me if he took his shirt off. Fun blog.
gal80 - a shirtless Burt Lancaster would pass muster in my house any day!
gal80 - a shirtless Burt Lancaster would pass muster in my house any day!
Women and the lottery are always squashing my dreams...
Pee-Wee Herman... but the pee-wee of the playhouse era before the public indecency bust.
noah - Pee Wee isn't dead... not yet.
CK, Sorry. Sean Connery is MINE (Even if Sean himself doesn't know!)
Try this again, my net connect went PFFFFT----- WHOOO!! Bettie Page!!!!!! And okay, the rest too!! :)

Rated for the title. Is it Necrophilia to just hump the grave itself?

;)
1) Janis Joplin
2) Cyd Charisse
3) Edith Piaf
4) Billie Holiday
5) Ed Harris
I know she's not dead, but I would be remiss to say Diana Rigg - young or at 70. Always a beauty.
Ok...hmm since i got a thing for bad boys with fast cars.. James dean for sure.. then Paul Newman because of those fucking piercing blue eyes.. Stevie Ray Vaughan becuae he was a blues man and his voice mmm.. and then maybe Elvis circa blue hawaii not bloated leather and capecape Elvis
Paul Newman, Paul Newman, and Paul Newman again.
Funny, I'm a gay guy but aside from some old Rock Hudson photos, (maybe I see something familiar in those eyes?) there aren't many of the classic male stars that really do it for me. But if I were batting for the other team, the list would be so long. The women's sexiness is really highlighted even when they are not scantily dressed, but genuine male sexiness is traded in for either a very stereotypical stiff masculine and forced-wholesome style (even the "bad boys," or too much prettiness. Actually it's true to some extent today as well. I'm not sure whether it's cultural stereotypes about what's sexy, or a specific focus on what the average American woman finds sexy in a guy. Not so different today really - Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Leonardo di Caprio et al. don't interest me at all, but Geena Davis in "The Accidental Tourist" pulled my Kinsey rating down just a skoche!
Is it too soon to say Heath Ledger?

It is?

Okay, sorry (walking away clutching her spoon....)
How could i have been so totally spot on in assuming your character without meeting you?
I try to work this Cary Grant quote into casual conversation whenever possible: "For what it's worth she's telling the truth. I knew her before you and I loved her before you. I just wasn't as lucky as you." (Notorious) Have to say, the guys who are being ordered around by my wife as they put a new roof on our house didn't quite get it.
Can a straight guy give a list here?
1. Jean Harlow, what a babe. Gone for what close to seventy years and still does it for me.
2. Marlene Deitrich, Yeah, I know, but she still gets to me.
3. Marilyn Monroe, Oddly enough not the younger one who posed for Playboy, the 40 year old one that left too soon. Look at the out take photo's from Somethings Gotta Give. The ones by the pool.
4. Audrey Hepburn, at any point up to death. A timeless beauty that age couldn't change
5. Natalie Wood, i believe were it not for a senseless tragedy that she would have had many of the qualities that put Audrey Hepburn here.
Batting for the other team? Never thought about that much, how about James Dean?
You have covered a lot of my bases here but I would definitely second Rex Harrison (who can resist that accent?) and add Raoul Julia. Those damn eyes.... How come nobody wants Johnny Carson? MINE!
Bettie Page, Audrey Hepburn, and Farrah Fawcett.
Oh yes, sadly, Heath Ledger.
Did someone say Sean Connery is dead? What? If he is, he's mine. If he's not, I'll still take him.
Tinkertink - it's close, but you can get away with it.

madcelt - nice choices.

whiteandblack and mamoore - you're gonna have to come to an arrangement on Paul.

kipouros - you're dead on with the stereotypes.

Will Someone Feed The Cat? - That question did pop into my mind when I was making the list. He sure was perty.

bobbot - I'm an easy read. I'm not easy, but I'm an easy read. nice list btw...

O'Really - Raoul Julia! Nice choice - funnily enough, that's just kinda what I pictured Antonio's father to look like ;)

Trudge - Now that list runs a broad spectrum!

JK - He's still with us... but I'm sure if you ask nicely he'll play dead for you ;)

Con Chapman - you've got some classic conversational skills there!
Don't think I'm letting you off the hook on the thing you have for Bettie Page OR this BDSM thing of yours that you have previously neglected to mention!!!

BTW, were you the chick Rick James used to sing about????
Safe_Bet - let's just say I look good in thigh high patent leather boots.
Yeah, JK... It was me. Sean Connery is very much alive, as are four of the five people I listed. I'm a total failure as a necrophiliac! I guess I could count that as a plus...
CK, I am with you on this. I am terrible at these popular culture memes. Which is EXACTLY why Surly continues to do these posts - just to torment ME. (it is all about me isn't it S?)
JK - when it isn't all about me, it is sometimes all about you. But just sometimes. :)
Katherine Hepburn. So cool, so hot.

Writers from the 20's. Wild chicks in beaded flapper drag. Yowza.
Dead Celebrities who still raise my temperature.
Natalie Wood (when she was legal, or almost legal, anyway)
Myrna Loy (with a martini in her hand for me)
Paulette Goddard (in a haunted house)
Tuesday Weld (when she was on Dobie Gillis)

BTW: On behalf of closet necrophiliacs, who didn't know they were ones until reading your blog, I think your title is in good taste.

PS: Are you sure we can't all get arrested for this? If it isn't illegal, it should be.
CK - I read your list and went "yep, me too, me too, un huh check..." THEN I read your later comment that they're not dead! ooops. So, actually dead (maybe):

Definitely Cary Grant
Clark Gable
Humphrey Bogart
Paul Newman
and is the guy from that one Bond movie - George Lazenby - still alive?
kitehlips - She was way cool... I'd like to be her.

Patton - it's not illegal, it is morally questionable, but not illegal... unless you get out a shovel.

Blue- nope looks like he's still kickin' so you'll have to wait ;)