New Year's Movie Weekend: Why women love John Cusack

Ask any smart woman in the U.S. who the male celebrity she adores most is, and the chances are pretty good that the answer will be "John Cusack."

When you think about all of the guys who were around during the heyday of John Hughes, and if you go back and watch Sixteen Candles, it's hard to believe that that the sex symbol of mid-to-late boomers and gen-x women would be the gangly guy in this short collection of clips:

But then of course that guy turned into this one:

...and this one:

...and now this one:

And as Melissa informs us, the nicest man in Hollywood:

Now that's a guy who would never embarrass you in public by telling you there's a booger attached to your nose.

Let the other girls have the chiseled hunks. For us thinking girls, THIS is what a dreamboat looks like. Smart, progressive, funny, polite, never shows up in the gossip pages, and eyes that you could forgive just about anything for.