21 Sex Symbols for the 21st Century

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If this topic sounds familiar, it’s because this is the second time Movieline put together a list of Hollywood sex symbols for the new millennium. The first list was published less than a year earlier and included less than half as many sexy stars. Not surprisingly, there is overlap between the two lists. This article from the January 2000 issue of Movieline expands the scope to nearly two dozen hot actors and actresses. Some of the choices haven’t held up as well as others.

They’re a jury of bought-off hormones, hardened by the arteries of cable, engorged by the media’s need to serve up one hot dish after another Sure, there will always be actors and actresses blessed with the magic chemistry to glow while others just shine, possessed of DNA sequences that produce Raphael-ian surprises in bone structure. But, children of the silver screen, beware, It’s a cough, tough audience out there–she with a hag of Sour Patch Kids between her thighs, he with a cell phone under his bun. Who will survive and who will end up in the cubicle beneath Whoopi Goldberg on ‘Hollywood Squares” is anyone’s guess. Here, then, is a shamelessly biased inauguration of sex symbols for the 21st century–stars who just might have the staying power to still be in our collective unconscious when Julia Roberts finally gets to play Georgia O’Keeffe using her own wrinkles.

kevin SPACEY
To the unadventurous eye, he’s about as glamorous as an army tent. Sorry-haired Kevin Spacey–eyes of a 12-stepper, the bearing of a vulture waiting for the living to wander away from a carcass. But none of that matters, because he’s a magnet. If good acting is sexy, great acting is irresistible, and Kevin Spacey is a great actor. The guy’s a lion, the best off-center leading man to come around since Bogart, only he’s more expressive than two Bogies, and more inclined to less-decent applications of sexual power than all Bogies combined. In Spacey we have the anti-establishment sex hero for our time.