TOP 50 list of the hottest women of the world, December '98 ============================================================ (Numbers within parenthesis indicates last month's positions) 1 (17) Jennifer Lopez, actress, USA 2 (4) Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress/singer, USA 3 (2) Cameron Diaz, actress/model, USA 4 (3) Catherine Zeta Jones, actress, UK 5 (1) Alanis Morissette, singer, Canada 6 (5) Calista Flockhart, actress, USA 7 (6) Madonna, singer/actress, USA 8 (25) Mariah Carey, musician, USA 9 (15) Katie Holmes, actress, USA 10 (32) Drew Barrymore, actress, USA 11 (12) Gillian Anderson, actress, USA 12 (7) Courtney Love, singer/musician/actress, USA 13 (19) Anne Heche, actress, USA 14 (10) Nicole Kidman, actress, Australia 15 (8) Helen Hunt, actress, USA 16 (37) Shirley Manson, singer, UK 17 (31) Meg Ryan, actress, USA 18 (16) Neve Campbell, actress, Canada 19 (Re) Jewel, musician, USA 20 (30) Salma Hayek, actress, Mexico 21 (45) Celine Dion, singer, Canada 22 (43) Kate Winslet, actress, UK 23 (14) Sandra Bullock, actress, USA 24 (13) Lisa Kudrow, actress, USA 25 (11) Jenna Elfman, actress, USA 26 (23) Janet Jackson, musician/actress, USA 27 (9) Liv Tyler, actress/model, USA 28 (18) Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress, USA 29 (20) Jennifer Aniston, actress, USA 30 (28) Christina Ricci, actress, USA 31 (Re) Lauryn Hill, singer/rapper, USA 32 (22) Shania Twain, musician, Canada 33 (27) Gwyneth Paltrow, actress, USA 34 (21) Denise Richards, actress, USA 35 (33) Melissa Joan Hart, actress, USA 36 (24) Natalie Portman, actress, Israel 37 (Re) Reese Witherspoon, actress, USA 38 (26) Mel B, singer, UK 39 (39) Laetitia Casta, model, France 40 (42) Ashley Judd, actress, USA 41 (-) Jeri Ryan, actress, USA 42 (34) D'Arcy Wretzky-Brown, musician, USA 43 (41) Nicole Appleton, singer, Canada 44 (36) Rose McGowan, actress, USA 45 (35) Natalie Imbruglia, actress/singer, Australia 46 (Re) Angelina Jolie, actress, USA 47 (Re) Minnie Driver, actress, UK 48 (46) Sarah McLachlan, musician, Canada 49 (44) Courteney Cox, actress, USA 50 (38) Alicia Silverstone, actress, USA Bye to: - Cindy Crawford, supermodel/TV hostess/actress, USA - Famke Janssen, actress/model, Holland - Sharon Stone, actress, USA (a special farewell to this beauty who has been on the list since it started!) - Christine Lahti, actress, USA - Anna Kournikova, tennis player, Russia - Isla Fisher, actress, Australia The list is as usual based on qualities such as beauty, sex appeal, charisma, intelligence, recent efforts and charm. Newcomers in this month's chart: - You wanted her and you got her! It took Jeri Ryan a couple of months to get voted into the list, but this time she did great, scoring almost twice as many points as the second most popular nominee. In case you're not a fan of Star Trek, you may not know who Jeri Ryan is. Jeri stars in Star Trek Voyagers as a (Cy)Borg named Seven of Nine. I guess what most fans find most appealing about that character is the tight and very revealing outfit that Jeri wears on the show. In fact, it used to be so tight that Jeri passed out several times. Jeri recently broke up with her husband Jack, so I guess she'll be out there, playing the field now... - Jewel has come out with her second album, "Spirit" and it seems to be doing just as well as the first one. This Alaskan native continues to make her own kind of soft, down to earth music and why wouldn't she when the formula seems to work so well? - Lauryn Hill has done really well on her own, just as the rest of the members of The Fugees. Her debut album as a solo artist, "The miseducation of Lauryn Hill" is considered to be brilliant and she's also doing well as a mum, raising her and Ziggy Marley's son. It's kind of hard to believe that she's only 23, since she has done so much already... - Who will be the biggest movie stars in the beginning of the 21th Century? That's an interesting question that isn't that easy to answer yet. Jennifer Lopez is probably one of them, but she is so close to becoming a megastar now, that she'll probably become it already in 1999. If you'd ask me, I'd say that Reese Witherspoon very well could be one of the biggest stars. She isn't all that famous yet, but is getting bigger parts for each movie she does, most recently in "Pleasantville". I definitely recommend you all to keep an eye on this actress in the future. - A couple of other women who you like have been voted back on the list as well. Wild cat Angelina Jolie continues to be popular, as well as the more traditional British actress Minnie Driver. A friend of Minnie recently complained that she wasn't any fun anymore, she spent too much time thinking of her career. Considering the fact that Minnie was so brutally dumped by Matt Damon earlier this year, I can understand if Minnie feels like burying herself in work these days... Movers: - She is a successful actress, named the sexiest woman of the year by Details magazine. She has also recently started a career in the music business and is releasing her first album now. I'd say that there is no one more worthy of becoming no. 1 on the list right now than Jennifer Lopez. Latin women are doing better than ever in the movie business these days. Salma Hayek and Cameron Diaz are only two examples of several successful sexy, spicy Latinas that make movies colorful these days. It's a nice trend and one that I hope will continue... - It's Christmas time (soon anyway) and that means that a lot of stars wants to release Christmas singles. Although most Christmas singles this year are not directly related to Christmas it is still very clear that they have been released with Christmas in mind. Celine Dion teamed up with R Kelly to make her Christmas as a commercial success as possible, while Mariah Carey did the same thing with Whitney Huston. Have a Merry, material Christmas, OK... - Congratulations to "Titanic" star Kate Winslet who fooled everyone when she married assistant film director Jim Threaple six month before the marriage was scheduled to take place. Smart move, if she hadn't done that, the tabloids would had ruined her wedding completely! Almost made it into the list (we'll see next month): Andrea Corr, musician ("The Corrs"), Ireland Alyson Hennigan, actress "Buffy the vampire slayer", USA Alyssa Milano, actress, USA Deborah Kara Unger, actress, USA Katherine Bell, actress "J.A.G.", USA Izabella Scorupco, actress, Sweden Tamara "Sunny" Fytch, athlete, USA Rebecca Gayheart, actress, USA Fairuza Balk, actress, USA Katarina Witt, ice skater, Germany Charlize Theron, actress/model, South Africa Gwen Stefani, singer "No Doubt", USA Carmen Electra, actress, USA Emma Lee Bunton, singer "Spice Girls", UK Kristi Yamaguchi, ice skater, USA Keri Russell, actress, USA  Heather Graham, actress, USA Jenny McCarthy, actress/model, USA Comments, nominations, etc. are as always welcome. Just remember that a nomination such as "Ms. x should be in because of er big hooters" hardly will be taken seriously. Until next month, / Mauvaise Honte