Meme: Childhood crushes

[chanaleh]

Resurrecting this one from a week or so ago. (Ironically, right as I was writing this, a new show I'd never heard of before [House, M.D.] came on TV... featuring notable crush object Robert Sean Leonard. Hotcha. :-)

List five people -- from television, movies, whatever -- that you had a crush on as a child (or early teens). Then post this on your LiveJournal so other people can be assured that you're as weird as they thought.

Oh, good Lord. >:-) Oddly, I have some trouble remembering this.

1. Speed Racer (this I think was short-lived, since I never even watched the show that much, but it's the only one I vividly remember as a crush)
2. Davy on The Monkees (I grew to prefer Micky at some point)
3. Luke Skywalker
4. Ponch on CHiPs
5. Keith Partridge... maybe?

The truth, though, is that I only had one absolute major childhood crush, and that was on a boy in my class: Kevin Newell. There, I said it. From second/third grade to ninth grade. Madly, painfully, obsessively in love from the age of seven. Never let it be said that I lack the capacity to be a one-man woman. >:-) The summer before tenth grade, I finally began to get over him when I acquired a real-life boyfriend of my own, who was even cuter and cooler and possibly smarter (although not, it must be said, as funny). But it never went away altogether.

The options get rather broader when we hit junior high:
1. Simon le Bon (of Duran Duran)
2. John Taylor (also of Duran Duran)
3. Nicholas Rowe in Young Sherlock Holmes
4. My sixth-grade improv teacher
5. My seventh-grade Sunday-school teacher. But that's a story I'm just not going to get into. :-)

Comments

[jimmystagger.livejournal.com]

John Taylor was pretty cool. My older cousin still loves him. I was always envious of his hair!

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

I still love John Taylor also. :)

[cos]

I didn't figure out the concept of crushes until almost my mid-teens, so the crushes I had before then, I was mostly unaware of. The ones I remembered in hindsight, once I figured out being attracted to girls, were mostly girls I went to school with.

[navrins]

I'm *still* not sure I've really figured out the concept of crushes.

What's a crush?

[desireearmfeldt]

I think mostly the difference between a crush and just your regular love/attraction/romantic interest is that a crush mostly doesn't expect to be satisfied. In many cases, doesn't even *want* to be satisfied, really. Certainly a movie-star crush (I hypothesize, never having experienced one) is all about fantasy; you don't actually want to meet River Phoenix, that's not the point. What I think of as the one big crush I've had (there have probably been a handful of littler ones) was on a real person, with whom I could have satisfying interactions, but I really never imagined, say, dating him.

Feel free to shred this definition; I'm not sure even I think it entirely holds up. :)

Re: What's a crush?

[msmidge.livejournal.com]

You might add--re: someone like River Phoenix, if you did want to meet him (and he were alive), you'd probably have crossed from crush to stalking. :P

[besamim.livejournal.com]

God help me, my first crush was on Vicky Stubing from Love Boat (played by Jill Whelan), when I was eleven. What the hell was I thinking?

[katfairy.livejournal.com]

Could be worse- my first celebrity crush was Barry Manilow. But then, since when do five-year-olds have taste? Anyway, he was soon eclipsed by Dorothy Hamill and Will Millar from the Irish Rovers.

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Will Millar!!! *sigh*

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

I am so with you on Nicholas Rowe. Love that movie. And Robert Sean Leonard is a given. :)

[melopoeia.livejournal.com]

hmm...

Robert Sean Leonard is ok...but I first saw him when he was being a simp in Branagh's "Much Ado".

lessee...

[desireearmfeldt]

Woh, you're right, that was him. Somehow I didn't notice that, either at the time, or a year ago when I was wondering what Robert Sean Leonard had been in apart from Dead Poets' Society... (OK, Claudio's a twit, but the actor's still cute. :) )

[murph-grrl.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that my Robert "Call me Bob" Sean Leonard crush was cemented in grad school when I met him (he was hanging out with this guy I know). Nicest guy in the world (cannot say the same for Ethan Hawke).

And I was totally into Simon LeBon in my early teens. Now, I think John Taylor is the more attractive one. But back then my world was all about Simon. (And later Mickey Dolenz).

And childhood: Agreed. My real crush from about 1st-4th grade was in my next door neighbor, Neil Brunetti. Then it was Steve Luminati from about 4th - 6th.

jeez, I was SO LAME!!!1!!

[greenlily.livejournal.com]

I, too, had a crush on one of my classmates from 4th to 7th grade. There were days in 7th grade when I hated school so much that I thought about trying to convince my mom I was sick, then decided to go anyways because it meant I'd get to see S. (Not gonna put his real name here--a quick Google search reveals that he's become a filmmaker, meaning that with my luck someone who's reading this is a fan of his film(s)).)

So long ago

[(Anonymous)]

I was all smiles until I read the part about the boyfriend being 'cooler'. Ah well...I'll take funny.
-ksn

WAHAHAHA!!

[chanaleh.livejournal.com]

Oh, Google, how we love thee! I figured this day would come eventually.

... Hon, you can't possibly begrudge me that small consolation after all the years of hopeless mooning-about I'd put in. >:-) If it helps, though, I'm definitely marrying "funnier" over "cooler" now. In fact, my fiance reminds me at odd moments -- certain jokes, looks, tones of voice -- of you to this day.

That said: should you happen to come back and see this again, drop a line and tell me what you're up to? I do wonder.

Re: WAHAHAHA!!

[(Anonymous)]

Google is a wonderful thing. You were definitely not difficult to find.
I don't even consider myself cool now...so I don't think I could possibly take any offense to that comment. I'll send you a more detailed e-mail in the next day or so and let you know what's going on.