hatred/crushes

I have to comment on something nick said... about falling for a character rather than the actor (or 'tress). i experienced a similar thing in high school drama. yes, it was a long time ago, but hear me out.
the play was "bye-bye birdie" and the character was albert peterson, the english teacher wannabe. i was about 14 and the guy who played albert (his name is raul) was "so great". the thing is, the albert role rubbed off into real life just enough that i almost transferred the crush to raul himself, even though his real personality was not what i was into. then i noticed that whatever theater role i was playing would rub off into my life - which was kind of fun when i was "wench #2" (once upon a mattress), but not so hot when i was marian the librarian (the music man). it defiinitely made a differnce in who i dated during each play. so i don't think i'm the only one who fell for a character back then.

as far as celebrities are concerned:
i can't stand affleck (sorry). there's this song on the team america soundtrack with a few lines that say: "i need you like ben affleck needs acting school; he was terrible in that film. i need you like cuba gooding needed a bigger part; he's way better than ben affleck."
i love team america. i guess one could say that i have a puppet-crush on chris. that foul mouth just does something for me... shoot, if i was single i'd probably go for trey parker - hilarious, decent looking, and he cracks a lot of great mormon jokes (for the record, i am officially a mormon myself. don't tell anybody).
i'll admit to woman-crushes on, oh say jennifer garner (which goes great with my not being able to stand her husband... i hope they break up). i might be "into" gwen stefani too - i'm still deciding. the pink hair was a low point, but she seems to have gotten past that.
i really have a problem with michelle pfeiffer. i have no idea why. shoot, i don't know why people have these weird love/hate things. my best guess has something to do with an experience i had back in the day. so, in high school (yeah, i get a lot of stories from there) there was a girl who i could not stand. i really hated her. now, i was not the type to get in trouble - i was an honor student, national honor society blah blah blah, and we got in a fight in the hallway once - i got clawed and she got punched, but it broke up pretty fast. so then i found out that the soccer team opposing her soccer team needed more players, and that it was the kind of soccer where no blood = no foul. so i had some fun slamming her into walls and such until the coach said i had to stop or i couldn't play any more... but i digress. the point is, she was a total bitch and drove me up the wall. so, years later, in a differnt country, i meet a co-worker who could pass as her twin. i am not kidding. the co-worker was nice enough, but i found it literally impossible to like her. i had a pretty hard time just being civil, just because of what she looked like (and no, i am not racist or anything like that - this was a single incident).
so maybe us non-famous types latch on to the famous types because we like their looks, or because we want to be like them (maybe just be them). seemingly that would make all self-esteem issues just dissappear - "man, if i were as cool as so-and-so, i'd have it made..."