Hotties from History

Hotty from History no.33 James Joyce 1882-1941

• Jimmy Joyce was a wonderful modern Irish writer. Although not typically handsome, he is included on this list because of his strange enigmatic appeal. He was tall, skinny and very rectangular, and it was only later when he grew a moustache and wore silly glasses that his look became more oddball than Oh my. In this picture he looks very much the good looking genius, and as for his manly pose, I certainly think he could have garnered the odd swoon.
• Joyce was already very intelligent as a handsome young lad. He rejected his family’s Catholicism at the age of 16, which strikes me as quite a rebellious and precocious thing to do. At the sweet age of 19 he was already making his mark: a review he wrote of Ibsen’s New Drama actually received a note of thanks from the playwright himself. 
• He grew to be an appalling drunk, frequently getting into scrapes and arguments and spending a lot of money he could not afford to. As we at HFH have mentioned before, this in itself isn’t exactly an asset, but if your a tortured poet with a nice face, then all is forgiven. After all, Joyce’s drunken anguish generally translated into brilliant prose. 
• Joyce was dreadful with money. This blogger essentially finds this endearing because it is a quality one can empathize with. He set out on various money making endeavours and failed at them all. Poor Joyce. What he really needed was an understanding lover to forgive him his ineptitude. Shame he was more than half a century or so too early. He was eventually able to focus on writing because he had a lady patron. I imagine his talent wasn’t the only reason she wanted to look after him.
• He wrote books. And well.

-Georgia