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Last Word

A quick (but intense) look at the Hollywood chaps and blokes

who turn the ladies’ heads. By Senor Dey

1. John Travolta 6. Clark Gable
Travolta was one of the youngest A lifelong Shakespeare

performers to be nominated for the fan, as a young boy, he
Best Actor Oscar for Saturday Night recited sonnets for fun. To
Fever. He is also a licenced pilot and succeed in Hollywood, Gable
own underwent cosmetic surgery
on his ears and teeth.

2. Marlon Brando 7. Paul Newman

Probably best-known for The Legendary film star
Godfather, Brando didn’t always and philanthropist Paul
memorise his lines; once he Newman’s brilliant blue eyes,
wrote his lines on the baby’s good looks and talent made
diaper so he could read them as him one of Hollywood’s top
the scene shot. actors.

3. Clint Eastwood 8. Steve McQueen
Famous for playing The Man The King of Cool. McQueen

with No Name in a string of tasted stardom with the
Westerns. Clint Eastwood’s Western TV series “Wanted
stiff acting and his habit of Dead or Alive”. A motorcycle
talking through his teeth enthusiast, he had a collection
became his trademark. of over 130 motorcycles.

4. Charlton Heston 9. George Clooney

He won the Academy Award People magazine’s “sexiest
Best Actor for Ben-Hur. man in the world” for 1997,
Heston is a gun ownership and voted “Best Dressed
advocate and is known to say Male Television Star” in the
his gun would have to be pried same year. An influential
“from my cold, dead hands.” Hollywood director, Clooney
personifies ageing gracefully.
4. Harrison Ford
In 1998, Ford was ranked the 10. Sean Connery

Sexiest Man Alive, and has The first actor to portray
played many iconic roles. James Bond, and often called
Before becoming an actor, the best Bond. Connery’s
Ford was a carpenter and still first name is Thomas, but he
practices carpentry as a hobby. claims he went by his middle
name even before becoming
an actor.

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