Crush of the Week!

This week's Crush of the Week is Bradley Cooper.  You want to know why?  Because he is always the guy you shouldn't like, but do anyways.   This, unfortunately, is a little piece of realism in the movies, kids.

Movies often feature a "nice guys finish first" storyline, where some loveable dweeb gets the girl, saves the day, etc.  This makes audiences happy because it's what we want to believe.  But the dork with the redemptive arc is not causing any heat in your seat (so to speak ;).  Bradley Cooper plays the jerk who everyone - the women in the movie and the women in the audience - doesn't want to admit to wanting to nail.  Hey, occasionally the Nice Guy I was talking about is actually a guy you want to nail also... I mean, depending on the actor, right?  But Bradley Cooper is always treating everyone like crap, cheating on his wife/girlfriend, making sweet love with Michael Ian Black in a tool shed (if you haven't seen Wet Hot American Summer, you really need to), and so on.  And he's inexplicably, yet undeniably, hot while doing it.

I realized that Bradley Cooper's particular brand of movie star attractiveness was of the Sexy Jerk variety when I made the mistake of going to see He's Not That Into You.  (Terrible movie.)  He's married to Jennifer Connolly, but getting busy with Scarlett Johansson.  Post-coitus, he was getting dressed and staring at Scarlett and said, all sentimental-like, "I'm just SO into you."  And I'm in the audience thinking, "awwwwww... what a sweet thing to say!"  HE'S CHEATING ON HIS WIFE, ALANNA!  You are gross for thinking he's hot right now.  Get a grip, stupid girl!

Anyways, the secret is out - I'm into jerkys (and so are you).  Congratulations, Bradley Cooper, you're my Crush of the Week for June 27, 2010!