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Bill Gates: Sex Symbol?
Bill Gates of Microsoft reclines on his desk soon after the release of Windows 1.0 in 1985. Photography by Deborah Feingold/Corbis
It's a particularly good day for Bill Gates.
Set aside his vast wealth, enviable corporate power and admirable philanthropy. Today is a good day for Gates because he beat Brad Pitt in a popularity contest among young women.
Self magazine in China recently conducted a poll asking 1,000 Chinese women aged 25 to 35 whom they would want to have a baby with. Gates easily trumped Pitt (No. 10 on the list) and even sexy soccer superstar David Beckham (No. 5).
Think it is only because young Chinese women have been seduced by their country's remarkable industrialization and booming economic wealth? Think again.
Gates still finished second to Hong Kong heartthrob Andy Lau, the wildly popular actor-singer-producer.
Tim Swanson's Hollywood Inc. blog post on this subject can be found here.
Laura Rich is a co-founder of Recessionwire, which provides news, advice, perspective and humor about the recession and the recovery.
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