Sexiest man alive

I watched an interview with George Clooney on The Guardian’s website. The reporter referred to him as twice named “the sexiest man alive.” I didn’t know there was an annual award like that. But then again, I’m not much of a connoisseur of male beauty.

Apparently it’s the rather tacky People Magazine in the US that hands out this rather tacky honor. So far they have named the likes of Brad Pitt, Sean Connery, Harrison Ford, Johnny Depp, Ben Affleck, bla, bla. What a boring and predictable list! And are there so few sexy men in the world that some have to be nominated twice?

Besides, can it really be that the world’s sexiest men all are English-speaking and predominantly American? Just as a matter of population statistics, an American should appear on the list no more than once in 20 years and a Brit only once in 100 years. Meanwhile a Chinese man should appear every five years. Any candidates?

I remember, in northern Sweden in the 80s, my sister getting speechless and blushing down to her toes, when I unexpectedly showed here a magazine with a photo spread of Sakamoto Ryuichi. But he’s not Chinese either of course — and by now not as handsome as he once was (but then again, who is?)