Why we're way into Taye. (Hunk Of The Month).(Taye Diggs)(Brief Article)(Interview)

* Taye Diggs may have a gorgeous face, but it was his beautiful backside that first put him on women's radar screens thanks to that steamy shower scene in his debut flick, How Stella Got Her Groove Back. And though he's strayed occasionally from playing the heartthrob (Go, House on Haunted Hill), it's his romantic roles--as a writer in The Best Man and the office dish du jour on Ally McBeal--that make us weak in the knees. Now, he's wooing us again in Brown Sugar, as a cool hip-hop exec who's hung up on his female best friend, and as the dapper conductor in the big-screen version of Chicago. After chatting with this self-proclaimed mama's boy (he has his mother's initials tattooed on his shoulder), our only complaint with the recently engaged 30-year-old is that he's no longer on the market.

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