From Shoshanna.

List five fictional people -- from television, movies, books, whatever -- that you had a crush on as a child (or early teens). Then post this on your LiveJournal so other people can know what a dork you've always been.

I don't have LJ, of course, but I decided to play anyhow.

1. Michael Landon, as Little Joe, on Bonanza
2. Russell Johnson, as The Professor on Gilligan's Island
3. David McCallum, as Ilya Kuryakin in Man From Uncle
4. Bill Cosby, as Alexander Scott in I Spy
5. Leonard Nimoy, as Spock in Star Trek

Note that all of these are television crushes.

I probably read 50 books for every 1 television show I watched, but back in the Kansan Dark Ages, when I was young, books for kids didn't lend themselves much to crushing. I mean, even something as innocuous as Jane Austen's books were confined to the "adult" section of the library, out of my reach until I was, IIRC, 14, by which time I'd crushed on a dozen television characters.

Anyhoo...I guess that's a pretty dorky list, so I'm fulfilling the requirements of the meme.*

David McCallum and Robert Redford are the only two blonds I remember crushing on in my entire life. (At least...until the advent of PlatinumSpike, in very recent years.) And I'm still crushed on McCallum when I see him on Navy NCIS.

An Escapade Con Report will be forthcoming before long.
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* No...on second thought, reviewing that list, it's not nearly as dorky as it could be. It's very predictable is all. And does a lot to reveal how very old I am.