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April 16, 2005
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My friend Danica McKellar, (probably best known for playing Winnie Cooper on The Wonder Years) is a fantastic actor and writer. A few years ago, we worked together in a short film called Speechless . . . which she wrote and directed.
Yesterday, Danica e-mailed me that she'd done a photoshoot for Stuff Magazine.
I did a photo session for "Stuff" magazine last Wednesday-- the first time in my life, ever, taking pictures in lingerie!!
The editors of Stuff want to know which hottie from the 90s Stuff readers would like to see in their magazine. Now, I've known Danica since forever, so she's like a little sister to me. The Protective Big Brother in me wants to say, "No way am I going to encourage people to check you out in sexy pictures!" But there's no denying that she's grown up to become quite a beautiful woman. Her competition is Jennie Garth, Elizabeth Berkley, and Kari Wuhrer. Though I had a mad crush on Kari Wuhrer when I was younger (read: last year), and I knew Elizabeth when I was a kid the world has already seen a whole lot of them in (and out of) lingerie. Danica is my good friend, and I'll gladly endure the trauma of seeing her in lingerie so she can make the cover of Stuff. I know how Hollywood works, and if she wins, it will help her career tremendously. It would be sort of impossible to see her just as little Winnie Cooper, wouldn't it?
So if you want to help her out, head over to Stuff Magazine, and click on Which hottie from the 90’s would you like to see in a Stuff shoot? (It's on the left, near the big question mark and I can't link it directly)
Oh, and geeks will love this: Danica has Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from UCLA, where she co-authored a math proof . . . as an undergrad. Yeah, seriously. she was also the only undergraduate invited to speak at Rutgers University's biannual Statistical Mechanics conference a few years ago. So she's, like, a hottie with a big old brain in her head. So quit reading this and go vote for her, already!
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No way, I'm first? wow.
Anyhow, That's really cool, I remember her from when I was a kid watching the wonder years, and it'll be neat to see (alot :P) of her again. And that's really really awesome that she's hot AND a geek ;)
Heading over to vote now :)
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at April 16, 2005 01:56 PM
GOt my vote.. I loved Danica/Wonder YEars as a kid, and it's made me sad that she pursed a degree in nuclear physics or something instead of acting more. Seeing her in Stuff will make everything better.
Posted by: cbergstrom at April 16, 2005 02:30 PM
I certainly don't need any extra encouragement for this!!! Who didn't want to be Kevin Arnold!?!?
Danica is gorgeous. I think I'll highlight this over at my blog, too. Maybe get the poker bloggers involved :-)
Posted by: CJ at April 16, 2005 02:33 PM
I've never seen Wonder Years and I don't really want to see ANY of them in their underwear but I voted for Danica just for you, Wil.
Posted by: warcrygirl at April 16, 2005 03:53 PM
I've never heard of her! But since you said to she got my vote.
Posted by: Zkid at April 16, 2005 04:02 PM
Damn... shes hot! even cooler that shes brainy too!
Posted by: Noel Burke at April 16, 2005 04:04 PM
cast my vote for her... she's never given the impression that she's less than bright, but damn! She's got one of the few bachelor's degrees that actually took brains and work to recieve. [I have a B.S. Bus. Admin: Finance, Real Estate & Law. Sounds special, lotsa words, totally meaningless. I hardly worked for it, just showed up, jumped through hoops made of the notorious "Red Tape". Makes for emergency toilet paper that's framed and ready to go if I ever need it, though.]
But I tangientially* digress... vote for Danica, everyone.
*yeah, I know it's prolly not in Webster's... but hey, it's one of my only creations.
Posted by: EdwoodCA at April 16, 2005 04:13 PM
I'm glad to hear Danica is doing so well. Often, I've wondered what happened to her.
Posted by: Steve Sutton at April 16, 2005 04:25 PM
*whistles innocently* *keeps pressing the button* I swear I'm not stuffing the Stuff ballot. Do de do dee dooooo.
I used to watch The Wonder Years and I adored her character. I've also liked everything I've ever read about her.
Go Go Gadget Voting Finger!
Posted by: HollyS at April 16, 2005 04:26 PM
There'll be no need for virtual arm twisting for me. I used to watch wonder years all the time. Danica roxxors! *clicky clicky*
Posted by: Grimicus at April 16, 2005 04:37 PM
Cute as she is, I'm not so worried about seeing Danica in lingerie.
I want a link to the paper with the mathematical proof!
Posted by: GlenBarnett at April 16, 2005 04:56 PM
Why am I still here instead of voting? Why are you still here instead of voting? C'mon people; this vote ain't gonna wind up in our favor by itself!
Posted by: Radiofreewill at April 16, 2005 05:15 PM
Done and Done.
She seems smart and cool so
I voted her. And you asked nicely.
at April 16, 2005 05:53 PM
"I want a link to the paper with the mathematical proof!"
http://www.danicamckellar.com/math/percolation.pdf
at April 16, 2005 06:04 PM
http://www.danicamckellar.com/math/percolation.pdf
It's Danica McKellar's paper, titled: Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Ashkin-Tellar models on Z^2.
Posted by: eingy at April 16, 2005 06:05 PM
Ok Star Trek boy I voted for Danica. But only because she is an important part of the adolecent fantacies that taught me to dream beyond my "class". As a result I ended up marrying way beyond my means.
Posted by: techunter at April 16, 2005 06:12 PM
Voted! Thanks for the heads up.
By the way, her paper is at www.danicamckellar.com
at April 16, 2005 06:36 PM
Hey, this is my first day looking at this blog and I love it. I love your writing style Will. So, its only fair that you check out my blog too. And I voted for Danica!
http://www.blogigo.co.uk/foxforcefive
at April 16, 2005 06:38 PM
Also, check her out as Elsie Snuffin in The West Wing. As for her Math skills... Wow!
Posted by: Sweet Chuck at April 16, 2005 06:50 PM
I used to have a huge crush on Fred Savage (who am I kidding? I still have a small crush) but I'm betting that Danica looks better in lingerie. :)
Everyone's seen Elizabeth nearly naked.
Posted by: AT at April 16, 2005 07:12 PM
Only for you, Wil. Voting to see girls in lingerie isn't my thing (I just have to look in the mirror when I get dressed) but if she wants to do it, OK. Though I think they should also include an excerpt from her paper.
Posted by: anniehay at April 16, 2005 07:33 PM
Wonder Years! Now that's bringing back some memories. Yeah, we all had crushes on her.
Very cool about the math degree; any chance she'll be doing a cameo on Numb3rs? :-)
Posted by: aplumb at April 16, 2005 07:40 PM
Hate to nitpick, Wil, but it's McKellar with an A. Still, an E for effort and I'm headed over to Stuff to... er, stuff... the ballot.
~chris, making sure he put only one L in Wil...
at April 16, 2005 08:10 PM
Damn, Wil! Where do you find all of these hot nerds?
... takes one to know one, I suppose...
Posted by: maayan at April 16, 2005 08:15 PM
Long time... First time... ;o]
I had to go vote for Danica. Out of everyone on that list, she's the only one I'd want to see in lingerie!
Posted by: kim! at April 16, 2005 08:22 PM
Does their script prohibit multiple votes from the same IP? I hope not, 'cos I voted three times. As an added bonus, my wife Pamela is an alumna of John Burroughs High School in Burbank, where The Wonder Years was filmed.
Plus, I see she likes kitties, which gives her even more added bonus points. Now you need to get her to blog. :-)
Posted by: Erbo at April 16, 2005 08:24 PM
My vote for Danica has been cast. Any friend of yours, etc. etc.
But seriously, I hope she wins and gets the career boost she is looking for. Although how a pictorial in Stuff will help a math geek is beyond me....
at April 16, 2005 08:48 PM
Ok, so how much does it suck that a women who is like, Einstein smart, needs to pose in lingerie in order to jump start her acting career? How is that even right? Oh, I voted for her, even though it felt kinda weird. I don't really wanna see the girl in her undies. But hey, if it helps, then so be it.
Posted by: TheSingah at April 16, 2005 08:48 PM
Here's the paper.
L Chayes et al 1998 J. Phys. A: Math. Gen. 31 9055-9063
Percolation and Gibbs states multiplicity for ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller models on Z^2
L Chayes, D McKellar and B Winn
Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1555, USA
Received 16 September 1997, in final form 13 August 1998
Print publication: Issue 45 (13 November 1998)
Abstract. For a region of the nearest-neighbour ferromagnetic Ashkin-Teller spin systems on Z^2, we characterize the existence of multiple Gibbs states via percolation. In particular, there are multiple Gibbs states if and only if there exists percolation of any of the spin types (i.e. the magnetized states are characterized by percolation of the dominant species). This result was previously known only for the Potts models on Z^2.
doi:10.1088/0305-4470/31/45/005
URL: http://stacks.iop.org/0305-4470/31/9055
PII: S0305-4470(98)87630-0
at April 16, 2005 09:18 PM
"grown up to become quite a beautiful woman"
Excuse me? Grown up to be a beautiful woman? I think she was well past beautiful when she was on Wonder Years. Winnie was very very pretty, and smart, and very sweet.
Since I'm quite married, I don't think I'll be buying the mag. However, I voted for her 5 times. I do think it was really cool that she was in Jane White.
Good luck!
Posted by: Craig Steffen at April 16, 2005 10:29 PM
good idea wil! lets stuff the box everyone!
at least this isn't a poll on startrek.com! i guess the cause is a bit more noble.
Posted by: Indy at April 16, 2005 10:35 PM
You are quite aware that I'm easily susceptible to suggestions, yes? I vote for your people, I aquire Wilco albums (so far only A Ghost is Born which I quite like)...
I'd have to say Jenny Garth is her main competition though. Anyone else remember the game Legend of the Red Dragon played on local BBSes before the uprising of the internet? (Long live Renegade!) I remember typing Jenny's name in the forest gave you something special, but it's been so long...
Okay, that's enough geeking for now. You keep posting, and I'll keep subscriping to the RSS feed via my livejournal friends list :o)
Kee
Posted by: Kikerakee at April 16, 2005 11:08 PM
I voted for Ms. McKellar, not because you said so, but of all the ladies there, she really offered the most. She has a creative and an analytical mind. I mean, how Fwicking K3Wl is that?!
And yes, she had the cutest smile.
I hope she gets it, Wil!
Posted by: Emily_Nelfnoffen at April 16, 2005 11:22 PM
I voted for Ms. McKellar, not because you said so, but of all the ladies there, she really offered the most. She has a creative and an analytical mind. I mean, how Fwicking K3Wl is that?!
And yes, she had the cutest smile.
I hope she gets it, Wil!
Posted by: Emily_Nelfnoffen at April 16, 2005 11:23 PM
Done. I always thought Danica was beautiful.
Posted by: Nicolette Rivers at April 16, 2005 11:51 PM
I'm quite torn on the matter.
On the one hand, I think it's kind of sad that Hollywood works that way. I mean, an intelligent and talented woman like her has to reduce herself to pure superficiality, to make herself a mere object of desire, in order to get a chance to prove her other qualities.
But then again, that's the way Hollywood works. I guess there's nothing to be done about it. So I voted although I have no particular desire to see her in lingerie.
I guess I would take a peek out of sheer curiosity, I'd be a liar if I claimed I wouldn't. And I sure hope she (and others of her calibre) makes her way because of her talent and not only because she showed some T&A in a magazine.
(x-posted in my LJ at http://www.livejournal.com/users/reverend_pain/ Yes, that's an open invitation for discussion if anyone cares ^_^)
Posted by: Burn at April 17, 2005 01:43 AM
I remember her sister, Crystal, from when she spent some time at Corpus Christi college in Oxford. At the time, she was doing Ancient Roman History, and I hear that she has since graduated from Yale magna cum laude and then got a law degree from Harvard... Nothing like sibling rivalry!
While she was at my college, she joined the Wine Tasting society and now I can't look at a bottle of Veuve Cliquot Champagne without being reminded of her! And camomile tea! ;)
Anyway I've never met Danica but my real point is that they are both seriously intelligent and wonderful people (if Danica is like her sis) and yet, in this day and age, posing in lingerie is a good career boost. The armfuls of qualifications and past performances and talent that they have doesn't seem to come into it.
I'm still going to vote though. Means to an end, right?
Posted by: Ben O at April 17, 2005 04:06 AM
Even though I had a crush on her when younger - or maybe because of that - I simply refuse to see Winnie Cooper as a sexual being (yes, I'm furiously blocking the last episode of The Wonder Years).
Now if she were to put on her Centauri bald cap on the other hand...
at April 17, 2005 04:13 AM
Since I'm all alone at work for the next shmillion hours, I may pull a you and vote for Danica...again and again and again and again and...
Posted by: Pai at April 17, 2005 06:14 AM
How could you all forget her on The West Wing - I loved her on that show!! I was sorry to see they weren't using her there anymore. Oh well - anything to help one of my fellow girl geeks out ... I voted!!
Posted by: Mar at April 17, 2005 06:57 AM
Hot damn! I always loved her in the Wonder Years. Never saw her in The West Wing because, well, I never watched the show. But she got several of my votes, because the last thing anybody wants to see is Elizabeth Berkley again. Hopefully we've stuffed the ballot enough to offset the Jennie Garth name recogniztion issue (if would have worked so much more in Danica's favour if they actually had pictures to go with the ballot - just about every guy who grew up in the Wonder Years era had a crush on her, I think)
Posted by: antifuse at April 17, 2005 07:14 AM
Done.
Any friend of Wil's...
Reminds me of the Star Trek.com best episode ballot stuffing story in "Just a Geek". Friends of mine did something similar for the Best Star Trek Fan Club contest for Insurrection. One of the members worked for Toronto City Hall, and sent an Intranet message to all the staff, asking to vote for them. Others had similarly large employers and spread the word to the other staff (the IP addresses were logged, I guess, probably learning from the lesson you taught them). Anyhow, they won, and got the tour of the set, and to interview the cast and all that. So, here's to Internet-Networking!
at April 17, 2005 07:44 AM
Um, voting done. Not that I'll ever see the cover, but I wouldn't mind seeing her on TV or in a movie again sometime soon. :-)
Posted by: gozo at April 17, 2005 08:50 AM
Educated, smart, sweet, cute...
Wil... Dude... You gotta hook me up! :)
at April 17, 2005 02:21 PM
Uh, Elizabeth Berkley? Go rent showgirls and you can see more than Stuff would ever show.
Who didn't think Kevin Arnold was a moron for not figuring out Winnie Cooper was hot until it was too late?
Posted by: Tom Boucher at April 17, 2005 02:54 PM
OK I went and voted @ Stuff. Now can you do me a small favor and hook me up w/ Danica? I used to have a huge crush on her back in the day.
Posted by: mrblume25 at April 17, 2005 04:02 PM
My vote is in as well.....I've always loved Danica, in The Wonder Years and West Wing, and even if Uncle Willy hadn't persuaded me, I probably would've voted for her anyways....what a cutie!!
Posted by: jesst70 at April 17, 2005 06:01 PM
OMG! She is so hot! I had such a crush on Winnie Cooper! LMAO! Wow...
Anywho, she gets my vote over all those others. Jennie Garth? C'mon man! No Contest! Is she single? j/k... seriously, have her call me. only kidding. But if she wants to she can email me...
at April 17, 2005 10:17 PM
Of all of them, she's by far the prettiest anyway, so I hurried and voted for her so it would look like I hit Stuff Magazine by accident. You'd think work wouldn't mind me hitting sites like that.
Posted by: Kass at April 18, 2005 04:37 AM
You know, she does a BASEBALL proof on her site.
* Hot
* Smart
* Baseball
She's a triple-threat!
w00t!
--AJ @ radio del huevo
Posted by: AJ at April 18, 2005 07:18 AM
Wow. The fact that you know Danica McKellar (and she doesn't hate you! ;) ) just made you even cooler. :)
I had a huge crush on Winnie Cooper and it was awesome to see her show up on West Wing, even attached to a name like Elsie Snuffin. I definitely voted for her. Yay!
Posted by: Rob Craven at April 18, 2005 07:35 AM
Hi Wil,
Although I have emailed previously, I hadn't registered to make comments on your blog til today.
I enjoy your blog very much and your wonderful style of writing and capturing an audience. I wish we lived close enough to see the live shows you are in. Good luck...wait I take that back..I don't want to jinx anything...maybe it would be more appropriate to say 'break a leg.' :-)
RE: Damica - A beauty and a geek in one - Excellent and of course I voted for her and I don't even visit the website or the magazine normally, but it's only right that a beautiful geek woman be on the front of any magazine. We need to see more of women that have great brains behind their beauty. I must say I wish they would have considered her for the cover on your looks and brains alone with out having to pose in lingerie but I know what you mean Wil.
What was really cool to me was not only her interest in promoting math which is so important, but that she is also starting to do some independent work as a director as well as all the other things she's doing. Quite an impressive lady!
Posted by: LilBambi at April 18, 2005 10:41 AM
Danica... I hate inverting keys.....
Posted by: LilBambi at April 18, 2005 10:50 AM
I think Danica is Gorgeous and I always have!
I was Sooooo in lurrrve with her in the Wonder Years.. I didnt wanna be Kevin, I wanted to take him out haha.
She got my vote absolutely!
at April 19, 2005 01:10 AM
Jennie Garth: Oh god, no! That nose? I guess we can be grateful that it's not Tori Spelling, but, um....no.
Elizabeth Berkley: Saved By The Bell? Are they serious?? No way. Although, she may be my husband's pick *snort*.
Kari Wuhrer: Remote control....Kids with remotes = so not sexy.
Danica McKellar: Of course, she's the obvious choice!! She MADE Fred Savage, I tell you! I do hope she wins. And I've never even heard of stuff magazine before now.
Posted by: jessiker at April 19, 2005 02:07 AM
Danica - no question about it. Anyone who can whiz through higher math gets a lot of respect from me. Calculus was hard enough!
Interesting she mentioned the pics were already shot for Stuff. I bet we get to see all four ladies, with the winner getting more pages than the rest.
I wonder why Tiffany-Amber Thiessen wasn't one of the picks? She was in two hit shows of the 90s.
Posted by: DPJ2005 at April 19, 2005 10:27 AM
I've had a soft spot for Danica since she appeared in "Her Pilgrim Soul", Alan Brennert's beautiful script for The Twilight Zone. Any word on when the announcement will be made?
Posted by: Steve Green at April 19, 2005 11:56 AM
voted! Danica is hot! (..oops, sorry. :P) i remember her from something...can't remember what. i gotta say, i'm up to my ears of Jennie Garth, i mean millions of 90210 reruns and her new show whatchamacallit, enough already... letsee someone a little less known!
Posted by: Milla at April 19, 2005 03:36 PM
I absolutely loved The Wonder Years, and I liked Winnie even if she was a bitch half the time to poor Fred Savage. I voted for her for sure, no competition with the others.
Posted by: Gretchen Ross at April 20, 2005 07:43 AM
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