Ava Gardner, the movie star, was a bit of a guilty pleasure. You knew she wasn't good for you but you couldn't turn her down! She was a great femme fatale in the the film noir The Killers.
One of my guilty pleasures is the comic strip The Phantom, which I read online. The Phantom was one of the masked vigilante heroes who appeared in the 1930s, like the Lone Ranger and Batman. He lived in Skull Cave in the jungles of Bengalla, with a community of pygmies, and devoted his life to fighting pirates and criminals, the 15th in a line going back centuries. It's sill and far from "politically correct," but pretty fun.
Howard Hawks made a lot of great movies, but even some of his less great efforts are guilty pleasures. Like To Have and Have Not: it's based on a Hemingway novel, yet the movie is basically about Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall's sexual chemistry and nothing else. (They married soon after finishing the movie.) But gosh darn it, that's enough!
Another guilty pleasure Howard Hawks made is Hatari! That's the one with John Wayne as a big-game hunter catching live animals in Africa. It's also silly but fun. (Henry Mancini's "Baby Elephant Walk" is in it.) It was released in February, 1962, the same month when I was born!
Other guilty pleasures of mine have been Tim Horton's bowties--they're like an eclair on speed--and punk rock!
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