This week People magazine honored cattle-whip expert Hugh Jackman by naming him the Sexiest Man Alive, basically killing his Oscar chances. What else was superlatively sexy this week? We look back:
• Sexiest movie that improved on already-sexy source material: Twilight
• Sexiest album that took thirteen years to make: Chinese Democracy
• Sexiest target of Gene Siskel’s insult humor: Roger Ebert
• Sexiest Broadway closing: American Buffalo
• Sexiest vampire-erotica slideshow: this one
• Sexiest upcoming United Artists film about a one-eyed Nazi: Valkyrie
• Sexiest bad singers: rappers
• Sexiest Twilight star afraid of being stabbed by fans: Robert Pattinson
• Sexiest up-and-coming monsters: werewolves
• Sexiest editorial plan: Vulture’s
• Sexiest up-and-coming monsters: werewolves
• Sexiest televised discussion of cat pee: Ben Silverman’s
• Sexiest 2008 National Book Award winner for fiction: Peter Matthiessen
• Sexiest crotch: Paul Rudd’s
• Sexiest layoffs: Days of Our Lives’