Weekend Quickie: My Top 5 Eighties Crushes

5.) Obligatory John Cusack Crush

And no, it wasn’t because of Say Anything. My John Cusack crush was strictly kindred to The Sure Thing.

This lovely Rob Reiner classic features John Cusack and Daphne Zuniga as polar opposite college co-eds who more or less can’t stand each other. So naturally, they end up on a cross country road trip to UCLA together and fall in love. Oh, the eighties were such a simple time.

In classic John Cusack style, it features his trademark kitschy little monologues, one liners and freak outs. Hot? Not exactly, but definitely cute.

4.) Jason Patric

Jason Patric in 1987's The Lost Boys with his little curly mullet totally did it for me. Jason gets bonus points for being the real life son of Jason Miller (of “The Exorcist: fame) and playing big brother to ever crushable Corey Haim.

3.) Matthew Modine

In the late eighties, I watched Gross Anatomy and fell in love with Matthew Modine. He was totally hot as Joe Slovak, the poor, yet brilliant, son of a fisherman, who goes to medical school in the hopes of becoming a doctor and making shitloads of money. Joe falls in love with Laurie (Daphne Zuniga popping up again) and learning valuable lessons about life, death and friendship...oh yeah, and human body parts.

Matthew Modine was tall, and handsome in black jeans and a brown jacket, he reeked of formaldehyde and carried a basketball under his arm. Hot.

2.) Timothy Hutton

Ever seen Ordinary People? If yes, then you’ll understand. If no, then you fucking well should.

Timothy Hutton is brilliant (and hot) as the dwindling failed suicidal son of Donald Sutherland and a most heartlessly evil Mary Tyler Moore, whose other son died in a boating accident. Hotten, I mean Hutton, won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor, which back then actually had some credibility.

Timothy Hutton later went on to star in Playing God with David Duchovny and Angelina Jolie. Lucky bastard. Of course, the movie sucked and there’s still a deleted Duchovny/Jolie sex scene floating around out there which I am determined to track down someday.

But, I digress.

1.) Mark Harmon

Ahhh, Mr. Shoop. No one ever did it for me like Mr. Shoop did it for me in Summer School.

Summer School (otherwise known as one of the best movies ever made) features Mark Harmon as Freddy Shoop, the lovable gym (but not real) teacher at Venice High School who is blackmailed into cancelling his surfing trip to Hawaii to teach a remedial English summer school class. Hilarity and hotness ensue.

Besides never wearing socks, Mark Harmon helps the kids realize their full potential whilst surfing, eating junk food, taking them on awesome field trips and just being hot! Seriously, no wonder Courtney Thorne-Smith went after him. If only all teachers can someday look like Mr. Shoop, there would be a significant decline in the drop-out rate.

I love you, Mr. Shoop.

With that said, I bid a good Friday to you all. And in true Pop Whore fashion, here's some pre-weekend hype for you:

Don't forget to check back Sunday night for the latest podcast. We hope the ChocolateCast will be as orgasmic to you as the thought of Mr. Shoop sitting on the beach eating ice cream is to me.