Ten Men Who Just Make Women Smile!

Television and the movies live and die by the "Q" rating of actors and movie stars, the two being mutually exclusive. If you have a high Q rating, you make people feel good about themselves. They find you pleasing to look at, and the reasons may wildly vary as to why. Here's my own list of men who just make me smile when I see them. Some of them have been having this effect on me for years!

1. Will Smith. The actor was cute and charming as a kid; as an adult, he hasn't missed a beat. Will Smith's face never, ever fails to bring a smile to my face. Couldn't stop it if I wanted to (not that I do!) Gotta love him.

2. Steve Carrell. Is he classically handsome? Nope. But there's enough good looks thrown in there with a certain hopefulness that makes me grin. Steve Carrell can brighten any day.

3. A young Eddie Murphy. This needs no explanation. At his prime, he was just...well, prime. Just thinking about him on Saturday Night Live makes for good karma.

4. Ray Barone. No, not the actor Ray Romano, but the character he played on the eternally in syndication series "Everybody Loves Raymond". Ray Barone was the man every woman secretly wished she'd married instead of the schlump she wakes up to each morning.

5. Pauly Bleeker, a.k.a. Michael Cera, the love of "Juno"'s life and the father of her son. There's something so open and so unformed in his face. He has the sort of face that shows a contented, happy past and an openness for what his future may hold. His is an unjudgmental face. I really like that.

6. Will Ferrell. The sight of Will Ferrell does NOT make me laugh. He does, however, bring a smile to my face. Have you ever seen a man whose eyes are so very tiny as compared to the rest of his face? His eyes are totally out of proportion to his high forehead, broad cheekbones, sturdy chin. They're like little pin points, or maybe God's after thought. Take a look at a Will Ferrell photo and you'll see what I mean: teeny, tiny eyes in that masculine face!

7. Dave Berry. Dave Berry, the prolific male version of Erma Bombeck, is no hearthrob by his own admission. His is a soft, pudgy face, with a sort of really dated Beatles swath of hair swooping down over his forehead. He, too, has relatively small eyes in contrast to the rest of his face. His teeth arent' the best. Heck, let's face it: his is not a handsome face. Yet I find it appealing, so much so that there goes that smile again...

8. Woody Paige, sportswriter for the Denver Post and a frequent guest on ESPN. Woody is also a frequent host on ESPN's afternoon show 'Around the Horn', on which he blubbers and rambles on in his charming Southern twang. (He's a Tennessee boy through and through.) Paige is old school Southern gentleman with more than a touch of the rascal.

9. LaDanian Tomlinson, of the San Diego Chargers. He makes me smile because I think he's hot. Enough said.

10. Payton Manning in any commercial, especially when he's yelling 'Cut that meat! Cut that meat!'. There's just something goofy and charming about him: he KNOWS that he's not hot, and that's okay with him.

Is it too late to add LaBron James to my list?

Who's on YOUR list of fabulous men who make you smile? (I think we all know by now that Alex Rodriguez is on the top of his OWN list!)