The $100 Question: Tell Loralee About Your Pretend Paramours

1. My boyfriend is Seal
2. My alternate boyfriend is Johnny Depp
3. My alternate alternate boyfriend is Sting
4. My alternate alternate alternate boyfriend is Taye Diggs
5. My final last resort alternate boyfriend is Brad Pitt's abs in Thelma and Louise. If there was some non-creepy way to date Brad Pitt's abs from Thelma and Louise.

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I had a heeeyooge crush on Heath Ledger for years and years. Oh, poor Heath Ledger. I haven't really replaced him yet.

Other than that, I suppose my top two would have to be Mike Rowe (because who doesn't like Mike Rowe??) and Clive Owen. Yummm.

Ooo, I LOVE this question!

1. Gregory House, M.D. (character)
2. Johnny Depp
3. Robert Downey Jr.

and runners up Dexter Morgan(in character) and River Phoenix, may he R.I.P.

I apparently have a weakness for murderers, drug addicts, alcoholics and/or those with dependency issues... what can I say? I like a handsome man with a dark secret :)

I was THISCLOSE to marrying Adam Duritz from the band Counting Crows. How? When I was in my early 20s my roommate gave Jennifer Aniston a facial...if she had only invited Jen over to hang out with us, Jen could have introduced me to Adam. I'm pretty sure we're soulmates separated by some tragic past life thingy so I know he's just out there waiting for me to find him!

If he doesn't, though, I could totally get down with Robert Downey Jr.

Since, even after almost six years of living in Utah, Donny Osmond can't be bothered making the 70-minute drive from Provo to Layton!

I was THISCLOSE to marrying Adam Duritz from the band Counting Crows. How? When I was in my early 20s my roommate gave Jennifer Aniston a facial...if she had only invited Jen over to hang out with us, Jen could have introduced me to Adam. I'm pretty sure we're soulmates separated by some tragic past life thingy so I know he's just out there waiting for me to find him!

If he doesn't, though, I could totally get down with Robert Downey Jr.

Since, even after almost six years of living in Utah, Donny Osmond can't be bothered making the 70-minute drive from Provo to Layton!

1. Jim Cantore from the Weather Channel. There's something about a good-looking man in a tight black T-shirt nearly getting blown away by a hurricane.

2. Simon Baker from the Mentalist. The curls! The dimples! Swoons.

3. Ok, if we're talking about the Mentalist, I think Kimball Cho is kinda hot, too. He's just so badass.

4. Mark Valley -- specifically as Christopher Chance in Human Target. Mmmm... I think he used to be on Days of Our Lives AGES ago, but way hotter as Christopher Chance.

Were we supposed to pick three? I only listed two - LOL! - but a third "pretend boyfriend," off the top of my head, would be Jean Reno (French film actor.) Tres manly!

#1 Benjamin Bratt aka the Cleaner. He is a bad boy gone good - totally irresistible.

#2 Taye Diggs - hot and does musical theater!

#3 Mark Salling aka "Puck" although way too young for me, his rendition of 'sweet caroline' melted me

Kristen cannot have Jon Stewart all to herself! He is my #1 choice, but only if he grows a couple of feet, since I think at 6' tall he's like a midget to me. But I love him for his brain.

#2 Jack O'Neill (any SG-1 fans out there? I loved him as MacGyver, but Richard Dean Anderson with silver hair and that rakish demeanor has my heart!)

#3 John Crichton/Cam Mitchell (Ben Browder in Farscape and SG-1) He doesn't play his characters, his characters play him.

Yes, I'm a sci-fi geek and not ashamed of it!

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OK - I'll limit it a little bit. How about several dudes who made me weak in the knees and lose the power of speech when I met them in person:

1. Bruce Springsteen

The boss who sold millions of records on the strength of the sight of his cute denim clad ass. And he still can rock out for 3 hours.

2. Dwight Yoakam

Kind of inexplicable, especially since I like guys who are bigger than me and he is super skinny. And he's gotta leave the hat on. But when I met him I was stammering so bad in the sight of his hotness that my friend had to pretend to be me and ask for an autograph.

3. Taye Diggs

The man literally has flames coming off him.

4. Viggo Mortensen

Unbelievably, even more gorgeous in real life. Plus a painter, poet and was cool enough to have a kid with Exene.

5. John Doe

Clearly jeans clad musicians are a weakness.

6. Idris Elba

OK, I have not met him but I couldn't resist adding him to my list. I'm positive I'd be a blithering idiot in his presence.

I'll quit now but this is fun. I might have to take it up on a personal blog and add in pictures.

(And since I have met quite a few celebrities, I can tell you that among the ladies, Tia Carrere has that speech stopping effect on all humans in her presence.)

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So, this happens to be a game my hubs & I play from time to time anyway, alternately referring to it as "The List" or the less flattering but much funnier moniker "Hump Island". Personally, I maintain a pretty constant top three (though our rules state that in such a situation, one needs ten potential lovers at least, thus that is the allowed length of one's list *grin*) for the last several years, and shy about them I am NOT. They are Taye Diggs (yes, I am sorry new daddy and longtime devoted husband to amazing Idina, but COME ON LADIES), LL Cool J and - wait for it - Philip Seymour Hoffman. No joke. I will say only this: I likes what I likes. :)

I want to know who everyone else chooses! LOL
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Just because I like boys doesn't mean I can't have girlcrushes, yes>

1. Heidi Klum, va-va-va-voom!
2. Kat Deely (those legs! are you kidding me?)
3. Reese Witherspoon. I want to put her in my pocket.

Okay, it's like this:

1. Ewan MacGregor (get all giggly whenever I even *think* of him)
2. Colin Meloy (talented and CUTE!)
3. Philip Seymour Hoffman (don't judge! I love him!)

1. Jeffrey Dean Morgan, especially when he had the Irish accent in PS, I Love You. Mmmm.

2. Gerard Butler. Very sexy :)

and

3. Mark Wahlberg (post Marky Mark). He is beautiful!

1. Todd and I are very different, but we like spending time together.
2. Clinton keeps me laughing and understands my jokes.
3. Glen is smart and hard-working, and not afraid to be vulnerable.

Oh I feel the Tim Gunn love! I totally want him to be my gay uncle!

Oh this one's a no-brainer for me. Here's my list:

1. Jason Isaacs - Col. Tavington in The Patriot & Lucius Malfoy in the HP series.
2. Alan Rickman - Prof. Snape from HP. Love. Him.
3. Hugh Laurie - Dr. House, but I prefer him in his natural British accent. Notice a trend yet?
4. Mike Rowe - My lone American. I want to do Dirty Jobs with him.
5. Craig Ferguson - Scottish accent and amazing sense of humor. Delicious.
6. Matthew Perry. Funny is a big one for me.
7. Chris Meloni. If you've seen Oz, I don't need to explain this at all.

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I know we're only allowed 5, but 4-7 tend to switch places for me depending on my mood.

1. Paul McCartney! I just love the Beatles and Paul is the cute Beatle.

2. Tom Cruise I loved him in Top Gun.

3. Jim Krasinski He is just too cute!

drew barrymore (always and all ways)
mr. depp (again, always and all ways)
sam mendes (and now he's sort of single)

1. The nerdy but oh so sexy Mr. Schuester from Glee. He makes the Glee Club look good!!!

2. Channing Tatum....I mean really?!?!? does it need explaing?

3. Adam Lambert - I know I know we would probably fight over makeup but there is something about him that is so yummy. Maybe because he is so talented. Maybe because he is ummmmm....not into girls. Maybe cause I like a bad boy every now and then. But mostly I think it is cause he seems so nice.

4. McSteamy....the name says it all!

Mickey Rourke - had me since 9 1/2 weeks.

Gabriel Byrne - smilla's sense of snow, stigmata

Jason Strathern - Transporter 1,2,3

Flirting,dinner,have worldly conversation over ice cream, walk holding hands to go dancing and plan for the next time out. Remember ladies, no sex on the first 8 dates at least. The fantasy could last....

1) Viggo Mortensen - Hot in A Perfect Murder and hotter in the Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

2) Mark Wahlberg - That's right, as in Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch.

3) Jin - From LOST. I'd crash land on an island with him any day.

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My three are:

1. Jon Stewart
2. Jon Stewart
3. Jon Stewart

Did I mention I have a thing for Jon Stewart? He's mine. MINE, I say!!

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First, remember when I was that ethereal blond in revolutionary Russia? When the snow was brutal and beautiful all at once...when the clop of the horse hooves rang out like gunfire, and when I was the superhawt love-princess of Omar Shariff... oh, do you rememebr?

Or....or...remember when I was that razor-sharp, internationally jet-setting red-head who bounty-hunted for insurance companies and I had to out-smart that smug, gorgeous, drool-over mega-rich playboy to recover the Monet he stole? (And that would be the second mega-rich playboy, not the first one.)

Or that one time...that one time when I was the slender, reedy-but-brilliant high-school student who took WAY TOO LONG to appreciate the juicy beauty of one Lloyd Dobber and he had stand outside my bedroom in the pale morning light holding a boombox playing Peter Gabriel at like, 110 decibels (where were all the neighbors that day? I totally don't know.)

Ahhhhh...what would I do without all those lovely memories to keep me warm at night?

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Okay, so I absolutely have become totally dreamy for the character of Jax on Sons of Anarchy. He is also in the movie, Green Street Holligans, but looks completely different. He is hot, dirty or clean shaven, long hair or short hair, it really doesn't matter. He has a manly precense that just give me goosebumps.

I have also always had a thing for Ashton Kutcher, so much so that in college, I named one of my Beta's Ashton. He lived for a year!

My third and final boyfriend would have to be Mcdreamy from Grey's Anatomy. He was so nerdy as a young actor, and now has just become so wonderful. I love his understanding of Meredith and her quirkiness. She is a lot like me, but I'm not as dark...

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I don't have any. Am I allowed to admit that? Or say why without offending anyone? I think past a certain age, these kinds of fantasies don't contribute anything meaningful to a person's mind-life (new word. Like it?). My dreams, even the wildest ones, tend toward things that can a) actually happen, and b) don't compete with the reality of my own marriage. My husband is human and flawed, and unable to compete with my imagination. Fortunately, I've found that my imagination is also unable to compete with him!

Seriously, I have soooo many; I totally live in fantasy world! (Well, I'm a writer, so that's *sort of* my excuse. :) The very consistent ones, though, are George Clooney (so obvious but I just dig him, can't help it) and "the English Patient guy" - aka Ralph Fiennes, whom I refer to as "English Patient Guy" around my husband so as to not, you know, induce jealousy.

Here are all my fantasy paramours:
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If you email me, I'll send you a link to a video of Mystery Date, who got the whole crush thing started.

1) Paul Newman, circa Cat On A Hot Tin Roof....this one needs no explanation, I think?

2) Zakk Wylde, only he'd have to bathe like three times first (once to break through the layer of funk, once to loofa/sandpaper any remaining clingy bits of said funk and lastly to soap up with some smellgood concoction) because I have it on good authority that The Funk Is Strong With This One. Plus? Haircut. Keep the long locks, but please do away with any dead ends.

3) Detective Robert Goren from Law And Order: Criminal Intent (not the actor Vincent D'Onofrio, but merely the character he portrays) because MAN, when those gears get to crankin' and his brain sucks up every fact in the room then braids it into some elaborate solution, I feel funny. You know, fuuhhhhnny.

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My imaginary boyfriend is David Tennant. Not many people in the US have heard of him, but he is one of England's biggest stars. He played the two greatest characters in British literature, Hamlet and the Doctor. (Yes, I am calling Doctor Who great literature.) David is Scottish, has fabulous hair and the most expressive eyes. I download audio books he has narrated just to listen to his brogue. I will also admit to having a bit of a crush on the fictional character Andrew Wiggin from Ender's Game. I was so upset when the grown up Ender married what's-her-name in "Speaker for the Dead" I wanted to throw the book.

PS: David Tennant and Patrick Stewart star in the Royal Shakespeare Company's acclaimed production of Hamlet on April 28th on a PBS staion near you. Squeee!

My secret lovah is Jack Bauer. Kiefer Sutherland is not bad, but Jack is my man. Right now he's busy saving the country one hour at a time, but when his show is over, he'll come home to me. I just know it.

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Seriously hard to narrow it down to three but here it goes:

1) Anderson Cooper, but only when he's on location because that's when he wears unnecessarily tight t-shirts, which are delicious!

2) Jason Sudekis from SNL, something about him in that red sweat suit doing crazy dance moves is oddly appealing. Plus he's pretty freakin' cute.

3) Paul McCartney late 60s early 70s, he was a hunk plus the accent, what more does a girl need?

Seriously hard to narrow it down to three but here it goes:

1) Anderson Cooper, but only when he's on location because that's when he wears unnecessarily tight t-shirts, which are delicious!

2) Jason Sudekis from SNL, something about him in that red sweat suit doing crazy dance moves is oddly appealing. Plus he's pretty freakin' cute.

3) Paul McCartney late 60s early 70s, he was a hunk plus the accent, what more does a girl need?

My imaginary paramour involves the combination of sexy, smart, brooding, and well dressed man with lusty inviting eyes. He enjoys great books, loves music, and favourite movie is The English Patient. If only he existed...

but I would take a couple of characters they play!

Jim Halpert (The Office)- So freaking sweet to Pam and I love his pranks on Dwight.

McDreamy (Grey's Anatomy) - He saves lives. He's super successful. And hot.

Chuck Bass (Gossip Girl) - Although he is way too young for me and I don't think he is cute at all, his attitude just does something for me and I can't get enough of his outfits. He could take me out for a night on the town anytime.

Sure I don't know how to blow crap up but I could show Michael Weston what a real woman is like. One who knows what a sandwich is, unlike that Fiona chick.

I could learn how to cock his, I mean a gun way before Fiona ever gets boobs as fabulous as mine.

Oh, and then Mike Rowe. And Eliot Stabler. Because we both have amazing taste.

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1. Jack Donaghy (30 Rock). I've been told I'm a real life Liz Lemon, so it's a perfect fit.
2. Tim Gunn. Ok, so I don't want him to be my boyfriend so much as my mentor and life coach.
3. Sawyer (Lost). What can I say? I have a bit of a thing for bad boys.

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1. Keith Urban - In real life I've always tried to avoid men with hair that requires more maintenance than mine, but it works for him.

2. Christian Bale - I've been in love with him since Newsies

3 - Johnny Depp - I've been in love with him since 21 Jump Street

4. Josh and Jake Harris and Jake Anderson from Discovery's Deadliest Catch. I don't get it, but there is something strangely attractive about rugged bad boy ways

Go ahead, TRY and keep Johnny from the eyeliner... well, maybe for you.

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1. Johnny Depp. We're high school sweethearts. First met during syndication of 21 Jump Street @ 2am while I was still in high school. My performance in school suffered, to be true, but we persevered.

2. Russell Brand. I don't. I can't. I don't know how to explain it. It's not something I'm proud of.

3. Amir Khan. One of the biggest movie stars in India. Probably the only one my husband would be unhappy to find out about. (Well, he's not happy about Johnny either, but we can still watch his movies. He wouldn't know who Russell was if he met him in the bathroom. Amir, though - he'd know Amir.)

(Oh and I just thought of a 4 - Jim from the Office. The character, not the person. I love a good smirk.)

ooooohhhh....Sayeed. Seriously.

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1. Ethan Hawke. Forever and always, baby.
2. Neil Finn. Seriously.
3. Nathan Fillion. Love me some Mal.
4. Glen Hansard. Irish pop stars do me in.

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How 'bout two, not three? I must have something internal that clicks with dark haired guys (including my hubby). My picks would be:

1) Hugh Jackman aka most any movie he's in

2) Patrick Dempsey aka Dr. McDreamy

1. Eliot Spencer (Christian Kane) on Leverage. Broody, hot, silent, sensitive type who can also kick ass.

2. Top Gun Maverick (Tom Cruise BC - before crazy) - it might have a *little* to do with the fact that it was the first movie sex scene I ever saw.

3. I have to agree with you on Det. Stabler.

4. I have a secret crush on Duane Lee (Dog the Bounty Hunter's son)

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1. House. Not Hugh Laurie. House, in character.

2. Johnny Depp, but erase my brain from remembering that he defended Roman Pulanski. And no eye liner.

3. Kurt Cobain, pre death. And pre Courtney.

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My husband has a clear understanding that would walk away in a heartbeat for:

1) Vincent D'Onfrio from Law and Order:Criminal intent
2) Daniel Craig... mmmm
3) Matt Damon.

He has his list too, but he said it after I mentioned mine, and I wasn't listening.....

What can I say? I have a thing for cops. :)

And Mariska is totally, utterly hot. You have good taste in women. (And hello! COP! hehehehe)

Joseph Gordon Levitt, I can't explain why...it's just...yes.
Jesse L Martin, who can sing in Rent AND be a badass cop in Law & Order
Mary Louise Parker, I love her ass.

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I only have one boyfriend and his name is Michael Weston from Burn Notice and he loves me too I can see it in his eyes when he looks at me behind those super sexy Armanis and we are going to run away together after he dumps that bee-atch Fiona, I already have my bags packed with lots of silly spy gadgets like x-ray vision goggles and also some C-4 so PAWS OFF, ladies, HE IS MINE and I WILL blow you up, don't test me.

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