JetmamaDiDi wrote:

gabriele wrote:

It's Monday after lunch here, so I'll make a start on Man Crush Monday.  Continuing my short series of Australian actors who play sweaty-chested, leather-armoured warriors.  Will have to 'appropriate' this one from you.  He came to live in Australia at age 12 and also lived in my home city in a $30/week apartment in the 70s/80s, so I'll lay a part claim..... 
#3 of the battlefield heroes, Mel Gibson. 

 
Hi, Gabriele! Good to "see" you onboard tonight.

Loved Mel Gibson till he got a little goofy several years ago and did some dumb things with his (then?) wife or gf. Hope he has straightened himself up by now. I think it pretty much took him out of the movie industry, however. Too bad. Very talented guy....and sexy in his day.

I didn't know much about him, but read up on him, after you mentioned this.   One of my former, long-term friends, same age, artist and also a catholic of Irish descent who had been drinking since early teens reminded me much of what I read.  Even looks a bit alike.  All the things alcohol does to people.....  He still has property here, and seems to turn up when he has to dry up. 
And yes, he was the first "Sexiest Man Alive" back in 1985....   
 

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