issue 6 - nov 1999

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Despite all of Joss Whedon's hard work and an unexpected gift from Glenn Gordon Caron in the yummy form of Eric Close, there still aren't enough hot men on genre television today. While a new set would be more than welcome to try and raise our pulses and estrogen levels, the industry has been ignoring a whole section of hotties with proven appeal. Which just goes to show you that the network suits are a bunch of squirrel bastards.

In the event that some of the squirrels can read and know how to turn on a computer, we've compiled an alphabetical list of delectable men who deserve another chance at gracing our television sets week after week. Preferably on something genre related.

Although truthfully, we're not really all that picky.


Last Genre Outing: Harsh Realm
Other Genre Work: The Postman, The X Files

Saddled with what are now signature Chris Carter pretentious monologues and voice overs, the sweet-faced Bairstow was destined to go MIA along with Harsh Realm.

Youth: "Scott Bairstow is going to be sooooooooo hot when he grows up. What? He's grown up now? Really??"
Talent: "Not only is he immensely yummy, he is also very courageous: what other man could endure a Kevin Costner movie and a Chris Carter series (co-starring Samantha Mathis!) and come out looking this good?"
Charm: "He's the kind of guy who has pretty generic good looks. Like that guy you in kinda dug in high school, but he was always trashed on beer. Nice, sturdy, Canadian, farm boy."



Next Genre Outing: Cherry Falls (2000)
Other Genre Outings: The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, The Seventh Sign

Okay, so Biehn is more of a film actor, but with The Magnificent 7 he proved that he's up to the rigors of weekly episodic TV.

Frequency: "I remember back in the day, when he used to be in every other genre movie. I miss those days."
Stamina: "Decades come and decades go yet Biehn continues to look good and melt me with that sexy, gravely voice of his."
Form: "What an impressive body of work! And his movies aren't half-bad either."
Attire: "The good news is that he's got a movie coming out called The Art of War which (fingers crossed) means camo, face paint, big guns, and lots of sweaty Michael in a UNIFORM!!"



Last Genre Outing: Babylon 5
Other Genre Outings: Viper

As our fascination with Buffy's Spike proves, we love Brit accents and wouldn't at all mind one more than tickling our ears.

Talent: "I remember back in the day when he was a slimy bad guy on Viper. At least he could act, unlike that loser James McCaffrey guy."
Charm: "I like that swashbuckling pirate look he's got goin' on. A good guy, but with enough of that bad boy streak in him to keep it interesting."
Personality: "A friend of mine once wrote, 'He has that dark, brooding, Byronesque quality that makes you want to either mother him or shag him senseless.' I agree."



Last Genre Outing: Crusade
Other Genre Outings: The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, American Gothic

There's just something about him that makes him equally delectable as either hero or the devil himself.

Accent: "I think that Gary Cole should do everything with a Southern accent. Is it an accurate accent? I don't know. I don't care. It's enough to give a girl the low-down shivers."
Charm: "Cole gives even the most dastardly villain a twisted seductiveness that I can't seem resist. Okay, so I don't even try to resist."
Curls: "Not having grown up in the '70's, I never thought any man playing Mike Brady could be sexy. Yet, Gary certainly held his own... and with a perm, for godsakes."



Last Genre Outing: Disturbing Behavior
Other Genre Outings: Sleepwalkers, Nowhere Man

So what if his record with television is a little... Okay, so it's really bad. We love and miss him anyway, damnit!

Looks: "I don't care what anybody says about his age or his acting ability or whatever. I maintain that Bruce Greenwood rules. Nowhere Man and its ruleage aside... he was lookin' good in Sleepwalkers."
More Looks: "He's one of the only guys who I still find attractive with a bushy mustache."
Experience: "Greenwood continues to prove that being a grown up doesn't negate your hottie status."



Last Genre Outing: The X Files
Other Genre Outings: Highlander, Sliders, The Burning Zone, The Outer Limits

Yeah, yeah, so technically he's still an XF semi-regular, but since we can never count on seeing him and some of us can't stomach XF these days even to catch a glimpse of him...

Appeal: "Oooh! Ooh! I want one!"
Form: "I'm hoping he gets another gig soon. Mostly so we can see him with two arms again."
Uhh... Preference?: "I want him in a bad way -- back on TV that is. In a good show. In a lead role. With two arms. Not kissing his male co-stars."



Last Genre Outing: Seven Days
Other Genre Outings: Space: Above and Beyond, Millennium, Prey

Most of us are even willing to watch the atrocious Nash Bridges to see this silver haired devil. That should tell you something.

Attire: "He looks far too good in a flightsuit to be so underutilized."
Attire: "Let's hope that when he does find a good part that it entails him wearing a black flightsuit or at least black silk boxers."
Attire: "As a Prey villain, he even made a sweater set (that looked like it once belonged to Mrs. Cleaver) sexy. Now that takes talent."



Last Genre Outing: House of Frankenstein
Other Genre Outings: Profit, Near Dark, Solarbabies, The Outer Limit

We were probably the only people who watched Profit, but with such an appealing villain-protagonist, can you blame us?

Attire: "Okay, so his genre resume isn't exactly peppered with quality work, but he looks good in a suit. That's always a plus in my book."
Looks: "Why does every man on our list seem to come from a series canceled by Fox? Anyway... Adrian's whopping four-episode series Profit was one of the coolest canceled shows ever, and you only need look at that face to see why."
Charm: "Pasdar has that deliciously evil quality about him."



Next Genre Outing: The Chosen Ones (2000)
Other Genre Outings: Space: Above and Beyond, The X-Files, Welcome To Paradox

Not even the threat of restraining orders can dampen our enthusiasm for this man.

Looks: "I would comment on how Rodney's hot and stuff, but he kinda belongs to one of my fellow staff members so she'd kick my ass."
Sense Of Humor: "We could mention staff chats that included several mentions of chocolate, whipped cream and Rodney, but that would be tasteless."
Talent: "How such a hot guy can manage to look so believably vulnerable is beyond my feeble powers of comprehension."



Last Genre Outing: Fatal Error
Other Genre Outings: Earth 2, Lois & Clark

While he's definitely in the Just Stand There And Look Pretty category, his other charms make up for his thespian shortcomings.

Undress: "Hmmm. Well, his acting kinda sucks. But check out the shirtless view!"
Undress: "He definitely needs more shirtless roles. Oh, uh... shirtless, genre roles."
Undress: "Sure, he may be a bit lacking in talent and taste -- but he's also lacking in a shirt! Having watched this guy in Earth 2, it's safe to say I'd see him in anything, although I'd rather see him in nothing at all."
Undress: "Well, the ballots are in and while the lovely Antonio did not win actor of anything, he was voted most likely to be licked to death by hoards of estrogen-crazed women."



Latest Genre Outing: Highlander IV: World Without End Other Genre Outings: Highlander: The Series, Strange World, The Sentinel, Viper

Everyone was looking forward to seeing him on Strange World, but nooooo.....We'll never forgive those squirrel bastards at ABC.

Accent: Mmmm... Welsh goodness.
Appeal: "It must suck to be a harlequin-cover hunk like Adrian Paul and have a guy like Peter around looking mysterious and sexy and stealing every scene he's in."
Appeal: "He's the kind of guy who could make you late for Sunday school 'cause Heaven knows you'd have to be made of stern stuff to crawl out of a bed with him in it, lying there all toasty and mussed and shadowed... oh, and we need to see him on a new genre series, too."

-- Compiled by the staff of The 11th Hour

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