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When I see pictures of him now, I cry a little inside


He used to be SO ATTRACTIVE. And now he's lost his looks. Back in the 90s... Damn. DAMN. He was fine! And now he looks totally different. I love him the same as always but I'm still sad that he hasn't aged very well. Sigh ...

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you're welcome. you can always count on shakespeare to nail it.

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I love these folks who look at him now with their emotions, not their eyes. He was so beautiful he was downright pretty when he was young. The folks who think he's still physically smokin' hot either have interesting tastes in men, or they still see that gorgeous young man. You could see, even in the Boston Legal days, that he'd have a propensity to put the weight on his face. Now his face is almost moonlike in its roundness. Them's the breaks. I hope he enjoyed being that gorgeous in his youth.

The upside of his aging is that he now could take on deeply nuanced character roles instead of the, of necessity, relatively flat characters of a series. Before, his looks got in the way of his acting, so it's difficult to know if he had range. Me, I'd like to see him become the next Christopher Walken. But the question is whether he really is that good of an actor? I hope he is. I'd love to see him stretch.

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He broke into movies as a pretty boy, and in my opinion, the inside character of a person eventually, usually, not alway, works its way to the outside. So, I think he is probably nothing but a regular guy who probably eats too much and never exercises. He is disgusting looking, as looks go. He's never have been hired into movies today, but somehow he has connections to keep getting jobs.

Maybe he had to submit to sexual indignities to get to be a movie star, like the #MeToo girls are always talking about?

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He likes to cook -- and eat, obviously. He says acting is his "hobby." He likes to think his real vocation is to become a "better human being." That, apparently, includes slacking off at work and cheating on his wife -- who seemed to get a bit of her own back in the divorce.

He coulda been a contender. He didn't want to put in the effort. Last I saw him he looked thinner, but his chin still goes halfway down his neck. That's age. But again, that's fixable. The interview I saw him in sounded like a boring guy who likes to cook. He dropped out of prep school, likely because he just wasn't that smart. He bragged that his choices were manual labor or acting, but he looked at acting like truck driving. "Some people think acting is art. And it can be. But I always took a working class attitude toward it."

And yeah -- Hollywood being Hollywood, he likely had to put out to get his early jobs. Sex greases the wheels there.

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James Spader is Raymond Reddington in real life. lol

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Who the hell is that?

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His character in the show, The Blacklist.

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Ahhhh. That makes sense.

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Oh, amen. I've been thinking that myself for decades now. To go from so incredibly fucking fine to now is a crying shame. And it was totally avoidable too if he would have put some effort into it. He doesn't even try. And you don't even need plastic surgery or anything like that to stay handsome. A good diet, exercise, some hair pieces/transplants, and some skin resurfacing can go a long way. Just tonight I commented about Don Johnson. That man is so fucking hot. I don't think I've ever seen a better looking 73-year-old in my entire life. And no plastic surgery. He's got great genes, for sure, and he keeps up with himself and most likely has chemical peels. But definitely no plastic surgery. That man is definitely blessed. But he puts some work into looking that good still.

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