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I'm still seeing signs for Gangster Squad everywhere, and I'm sick of not indulging my fetish for gay listmaking. So, here's my way of getting a fix: These are the nine hottest hotties of gangster films, and I hope we can agree that a gangster film can either be a classic shoot-'em-up thriller of the 1930s-40s with mensches like Jimmy Cagney and Paul Muni or a stylized modern version that's more about dress-up than White Heat credibility. I've included both versions in this list. 

Here are your gangsters, ranked and dapper as hell. 

9. Ryan Gosling, Gangster Squad

Forgive me -- I am obligated to include the impossibly debonair Gosling since he makes every suit, glance, and cigarette puff a libidinous delight in Gangster Squad. How does he achieve such angles? I fear he has taken a sander to every pane on his face. I can't explain what he's achieved.

Today, we're featuring Dorothy Lamour circa 1988. Some of Lamour's notable films include John Ford's The Hurricane 1937, Spawn of the North 1938 with George Raft, Henry Fonda, and John Barrymore, Disputed Passage 1939, Johnny Apollo 1940 with Tyrone Power, Aloma of the South Seas 1941, Beyond the Blue Horizon 1942, Dixie 1943 with Bing Crosby, A Medal for Benny 1945, My Favorite Brunette 1947 with Bob Hope, On Our Merry Way 1948 and a supporting role in the best picture Oscar-winner The Greatest Show on Earth 1952 with Charlton Heston. She became more active in the legitimate theater, headlining a road company of Hello Dolly for over a year.

Tyrone Power, who died 50 years ago at 44, has more of his movies available on DVD than practically any of his peers from Hollywood's Golden Age.

Partly, it's because he worked almost exclusively from 1937 to 1952 for 20th Century Fox, which has already released his classics, including "The Mark of Zorro," "Jesse James," "The Black Swan" and "In Old Chicago."

It's also because Power is more respected today - because of more ambitious roles in darker films like "Nightmare Alley" and "The Razor's Edge" -...