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HERE’S HOW WINNERS …BUT THE YEARS AFTER THE TITLE’S NEVER LOOK LIKE AT THE TIME ARE RARELY KIND UNANIMOUS… An Ageing SMA: In OF RECEIVING THE TITLE Some women at People were 1998, 56-year-old against Connery running the Harrison Ford clinched title. Reason: he too made the title. The timing unsexy comments: was perfect from Hamlin Ford’s perspective. was all the “I don’t think there is anything The title coincided rage in the particularly wrong about with the release of his US in 1987 hitting a woman” Six Days, Seven Nights Connery to Playboy in 1965

“My daughter loves This year, Washington Post him from Star Wars, I rooted for gay actor Neil adore him, my mother Patrick Harris while Vanity adores him, my Fair Hollywood had its grandmother adores money on Guardians of the him. … He just spans Galaxy’s Chris Pratt the generations” Wendy Crewson, Ford’s Air Nolte can People magazine has ranked Force One onscreen first lady be forgiven for his Australian actor Chris Hemsworth current as the Sexiest Man Alive for 2014. look, given …OR NON- The Black SMA: In 1996, People finally that he Judging by the Thor star's look, broke a 10-year streak of anointing won the CONTENTIOUS you'd think you know how People Caucasians and handed the title to actor title at 51 Denzel Washington, whose release Courage selects them — thirty Under Fire hit the screens earlier that year. THEY TOO WERE something, white, No black man has won the title since. (MAY’VE BEEN) SEXY hugely popular, “I’m proud we published the first [black Not content with ranking the sexiest men of certainly successful and man]. I’m not proud that he was the last” our time, Poeople dug into some history definitely good-looking. Landon Jones, People's managing editor at the time books to scour for hunks of the Except — boo — it hasn’t past: Here's what they found: “If Chris Hemsworth is the always been that way. The Sexiest Couple Alive: People ditched the Sexiest sexiest man alive, then '90s A trip down the Man tag altogether in 1993. It awarded its first 1954: Smokin' Hot!: The Harmon is hair is BACK, Y'ALL” memory “Sexiest Couple” cover to Richard Gere and Cindy Marlboro Man still seen in @LouisPeitzman Crawford. That was also last time. Maybe because People liked the fact the long- lane celebrity marriages are only made in heaven. that “once the ruggedly running TV handsome cowboy” show NCIS “We have a confession to make, which is that we became the face of the came within a hair of naming the President Sexiest brand, Marlboro sales Man Alive in 1993” skyrocketed AND SOME People’s admission to Bill and Hillary Clinton TAKE IT A TAD 1946: The Teen Idol: TOO SERIOUSLY Frank Sinatra People fell for Sinatra’s velvet voice and piercing blue eyes A Balding SMA: In 1989, People decided to resurrect the sex appeal of Sean Connery. Never mind Connery was 59 and bald Mel said some 1760: That's Amore: Giacomo unsexy things “Being an older guy myself, it felt like a bit of revenge Girolamo If the world's greatest later for all the young hunks that we put on the cover” lover’s wasn’t sexy, who is? Jim Seymore, an editor at the time “The Jews are responsible In 2012, US satirical website 1504: FabAbs: Michelangelo's David for all the wars Onion named North Korean We are guessing the six-pack did the trick in the world” leader Kim Jong-un as the The “Who’s This Dude?" SMA: In 1987, Harry Hamlin was named Sexiest to a traffic cop Sexiest Man Alive. China's Man Alive, setting off reactions like “who?” and “why?” in other parts of in 2006 People's Daily Online fell for the world. For those dying to know who he is: he starred as Michael BC: The King of Swagger: Alexander the spoof, devoting a 55-page Kuzak in the legal drama series L.A. Law Alexander the Great not only photo spread for the news: conquered countries but also the hearts “I love this one. It has a “Harry has the charm, vulnerability and diplomacy of Cary Grant and of the folks at People the explorer, survivalist instinct of Robinson Crusoe” certain delightfulness to it” Susan Dey, co-star Will Tracy, Onion editor Source: People, Slate, Daily Mail