Show Business: In Hollywood, the Year of the Hunk

Tom Selleck leads the prime-time muscle brigade

Fact 1: More women than men watch television's prime-time entertainment shows.

Fact 2: Many women like to see good-looking guys sauntering across the screen, pumping those biceps into little mountains of muscle, working those hairy abdominals into heroic furrows, flexing those pecs and lats until they pop.

Put those two facts together and you have the Year of the Hunk. Charlie's Angels and the other '70s jiggle shows have given way to the '" muscular-ripple shows of the '80s: Magnum, P.I.; Voyagers!; High Performance and The Fall...

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