So began a letter to Cosmopolitan last February, nominating Stansfield of Salt Lake City for the magazine's annual "50 Hottest Bachelors in the U.S." issue. It worked: Stansfield is one of 50 young single men - a hunk for each state! - gracing Cosmo's November issue, on newsstands now.

"It is kind of cheesy," chuckles the 28-year-old marketing director for the Crossroads Mall and ZCMI Center in downtown Salt Lake City. "But I have to admit, it's been fun."

The magazine flew Stansfield to New York for a photo shoot, put him up in a fancy hotel and pimped him and the 49 other bachelors on such TV shows as "Entertainment Tonight."

Stansfield gets a quarter-page spread in the current issue, including a photo of the shirtless bachelor gazing broodingly at the camera. In the magazine he says he likes to hide love notes for girls in places they wouldn't expect, "like under her windshield wiper after work."

His biggest turn-offs? "A woman who smokes or swears a lot. Neither is sexy."

Stansfield, who is Mormon and "a pretty conservative person," is a little embarrassed about appearing in the racy magazine, whose lead November headline is, "MEN TALK BOOTY." But he may get a girlfriend out of the deal. Cosmo provided him with an e-mail address, cosmoutah@hotmail

.com, published next to his photo. Flirty e-mails already are coming in from around the country.

"I would like this to result in some dates," says the former model and military brat. "That's the goal."

Something tells me that won't be a problem.

Your name here: Westminster College should be proud of its glittering new Emma Eccles Jones Conservatory, a $7 million addition to the Jewett Center for the Performing Arts. The music building opened to the public last month to rave reviews.

But visitors may notice something a little strange: Almost every interior space is named, in big letters fastened to the walls, for Westminster donors.

The building's centerpieces are the Jay W. Lees Courage Theatre, the Dumke Student Theatre and the Vieve Gore Concert Hall. OK, fine - nothing unusual there. But the naming-fest just won't stop: There's also the Jane McCarthey Grand Staircase & Gallery, the Norman & Barbara Tanner Atrium, the Katherine C. Hammill Box Office, the Edward & Jean Juhan Lounge and the Alvin & Helene Richer Alcove.

What's next, the Irv & Estelle Deeppockets Drinking Fountain? The Walt J. & Priscilla T. Warbucks Light Fixture? The Marvin Moneybags Potted Plant?

Gotta act! Gotta sing! Gotta rest! What's with middle-aged actors trying to become singers?

Kevin Kline sang Cole Porter in last summer's "De-Lovely" movie, Kevin Spacey croons Bobby Darin in the upcoming biopic "Beyond the Sea" and Treat Williams tackles Kenny Loggins' "Love Song" on the new "Everwood" soundtrack.

But the oddest of the lot has to be the new album by (gulp) William Shatner. If its title, "Has Been," sounds like a joke, the project is surprisingly earnest, considering it's fronted by a toupeed TV actor who once butchered "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds."

With help from producer Ben Folds and guest artists Joe Jackson, Aimee Mann and Henry Rollins, ol' Capt. Kirk has made a brave and singular record - filled not with cheesy covers but original material co-written by Shatner himself.

An example: "Live life like you're gonna die/Because you're gonna/I hate to be the bearer of bad news/But you're gonna die."

OK, so maybe it won't get your date in the mood.

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