AGE: 49
HEIGHT: 5'10”
STATUS: Lives with “Frida” director Julie Taymor.
WHO: After composing the scores for such films as “Alien 3” and “Interview with the Vampire”, Goldenthal won his first Oscar (he has four nominations) this year for “Frida”. He keeps it “next to a statue of Larry from ‘The Three Stooges’ to remind me not to take anything too wrapped in praise to heart.”
WHY: He's sexy, says Taymor, because “he's masterful at creating extraordinary music, but he also tells really fantastic dirty jokes.”
Goldenthal, who studied with legendary American composer Aaron Copland, has also written music for theatre productions and ballets. He's currently at work on an opera. His own taste in music?
“I abhor techno,” he says. “I have enormous respect for rap. It's percussion riding on the waves of words.”