I seem to recall we had been discussing that in another thread, relating how the husbands were all overweight bobos?
And, also oddly enough, Trixie, Norton's wife, was probably the only 'showgirl' with brains...
This all just proves how much we feed into stereotypes, I reckon.
I might be mistaken, but I believe I saw something years ago on 20/20 about just this very topic-several men, some extremely good looking but short, went up against taller guys re: getting noticed by girls and the taller ones always came out ahead. They also did a similar thing with model-ish, voluptuous women vs average with a broken down car and the model-type got help every time, the 'average' ones, not so much.
While I'm with Shani about the 'Brad Pitt' syndrome-don't care much for pretty as, in my opinion, it denotes a higher level of self-absorption(wrong or not)- I'd be lying if I said that if you put up a slovenly unkept but highly intelligent, mannerful guy against a well-groomed man of equal intelligence, it wouldn't matter. Oh wait, I met Tec...nevermind
You know I love ya, Tec 