In my teens I had an enormous crush on Tony Perkins and it's easy to see why—his boyish vulnerability was devastating to thousands of girls besides me, not to mention an equal number of boys. He won my heart playing Gary Cooper's nervous-around-women son in a lovely period drama called
Friendly Persuasion, lost it with
Psycho, but won it again with
Psycho II. Boyish men you want to simultaneously feed cookies to and jump are devastating to me, I guess. But my favorite is
Goodbye Again, which was based on Francoise Sagan's
Aimez-Vous Brahms?
