This year being the Twentieth Anniversary of
PEOPLE Magazine's "The Sexiest Man Alive",
PEOPLE did a retrospective of twenty years of that publication's choices.
In looking back, it appears that PEOPLE was pretty dead-on in their selections, for the greater part of the winners have gone on to even greater heights of fame and success; however, some are no longer as much in evidence.
And then, of course, there is the heartbreaking cover of John F. Kennedy, Jr. -- and he was one of the sexiest men ever!
Here is their list:
1985 -- Mel Gibson
1986 -- Mark Harmon
1987 -- Harry Hamlin
1988 -- John F. Kennedy, Jr.
1989 -- Sean Connery
1990 -- Tom Cruise
1991 -- Patrick Swayze
1992 -- Nick Nolte
1993 -- Richard Gere (& Cindy Crawford as "Sexiest Couple")
1994 -- NO ONE! -- a bad year for testosterone, evidently!
1995 -- Brad Pitt
1996 -- Denzel Washington
1997 -- George Clooney
1998 -- Harrison Ford
1999 -- Richard Gere
2000 -- Brad Pitt
2001 -- Pierce Brosnan
2002 -- Ben Affleck
2003 -- Johnny Depp
2004 -- Jude Law
2005 -- Matthew McConaughey
I write this post, because, in among that list, is mention of one man in particular who seems to be in eternal possession of
IT.
(With regard to
IT . . . well, it's as Aristotle Onassis said (and no, I never met him -- but I
could have!
) "If you have to ask how much a yacht costs, you can't afford it!" In other words, if you have to ask, 'What is
IT?' -- then you haven't got
IT!")
IT is an intangible.
IT cannot be taught.
IT cannot be acquired.
One either has
IT . . . or one hasn