TOP 50 list of the hottest women of the world, February '99 ============================================================ (Numbers within parenthesis indicates last month's positions) 1 (8) Gwyneth Paltrow, actress, USA 2 (7) Cameron Diaz, actress/model, USA 3 (9) Katie Holmes, actress, USA 4 (11) Calista Flockhart, actress, USA 5 (1) Jennifer Lopez, actress, USA 6 (2) Meg Ryan, actress, USA 7 (5) Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress/singer, USA 8 (3) Catherine Zeta Jones, actress, UK 9 (18) Alyssa Milano, actress, USA 10 (27) Christina Ricci, actress, USA 11 (4) Mariah Carey, musician, USA 12 (6) Lauryn Hill, singer/rapper, USA 13 (17) Madonna, singer/actress, USA 14 (22) Jenna Elfman, actress, USA 15 (12) Nicole Kidman, actress, Australia 16 (Re) Julia Roberts, actress, USA 17 (16) Drew Barrymore, actress, USA 18 (26) Keri Russell, actress, USA 19 (25) Neve Campbell, actress, Canada 20 (13) Shania Twain, musician, Canada 21 (10) Alanis Morissette, singer, Canada 22 (28) Salma Hayek, actress, Mexico 23 (14) Helen Hunt, actress, USA 24 (15) Jewel, musician, USA 25 (21) Anne Heche, actress, USA 26 (30) Natalie Portman, actress, Israel 27 (Re) Anna Kournikova, tennis player, Russia 28 (20) Gillian Anderson, actress, USA 29 (19) Courtney Love, singer/musician/actress, USA 30 (31) Rebecca Gayheart, actress, USA 31 (36) Laetitia Casta, model, France 32 (32) Jennifer Aniston, actress, USA 33 (35) Angelina Jolie, actress, USA 34 (24) Lisa Kudrow, actress, USA 35 (-) Laura Prepon, actress, USA 36 (29) Celine Dion, singer, Canada 37 (-) Mel C, musician, UK 38 (Re) Reese Witherspoon, actress, USA 39 (33) Kate Winslet, actress, UK 40 (40) Sandra Bullock, actress, USA 41 (23) Shirley Manson, singer, UK 42 (34) Ashley Judd, actress, USA 43 (Re) Charlize Theron, actress/model, South Africa 44 (37) Sarah Michelle Gellar, actress, USA 45 (39) Melissa Joan Hart, actress, USA 46 (48) Janet Jackson, musician/actress, USA 47 (38) Mel B, singer, UK 48 (-) Jamie Luner, actress, USA 49 (49) Jeri Ryan, actress, USA 50 (47) Minnie Driver, actress, UK Bye to: Jenny McCarthy, actress, USA Denise Richards, actress, USA Liv Tyler, actress/model, USA Famke Janssen, actress, Holland Natalie Imbruglia, actress/singer, Australia Sarah McLachlan, musician, Canada Rose McGowan, actress, USA 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: - The highest placed newcomer of the month is Julia Roberts, who is one of the best paid actresses of Hollywood these days. Julia will get 17 million dollars to appear in her new movie "The runaway bride", in which she once again teams up with Richard Gere. I guess Hollywood is looking for another "Pretty Woman" (what a surprise...). As if that wasn't enough, Julia will demand 20 million to star in her next film. Big money for the girl with the big smile... - It really didn't matter that Anna Kournikova couldn't serve anymore when she recently appeared in the Australian Open tennis tournament. She is no longer just an athlete, she is a megastar who people will queue for hours to see, regardless of how good tennis she plays. Now, I'm not the one to tell you if that is a bad or good thing, but isn't it at least a bit strange? Well, hopefully Anna's play will improve and she'll become an athlete worthy of her popularity. There will be lots of temptations along the way for a young "bad" girl, such as Anna, so I hope she will find her way through it all. - Laura Prepon is only 18 years old, but is already becoming one of the major stars of television. Out of the TV series that premiered in the US last autumn have most done pretty bad, but "That 70's show" has actually become pretty popular. Laura is probably the most popular cast member of that show and your votes proved that she is worthy to enter the list. - Mel C is the Spice Girl also known as "Sporty Spice", but a lot of people would rather refer to her as "Talent Spice", since they think she is the only Spice Girl who actually can sing. Well, I wouldn't go that far, but Miss Melanie Chrisholm is certainly the Spice that seem to have the potential to become the most successful one in the future. Her recent co-operation with Bryan Adams (the song "When you're gone") has become really popular and will open quite a few doors for Mel C if she wants to have a solo career. Regardless of her future plans, she will however most likely continue to be one of the Spicy ones. - Jamie Luner is one of the beautiful women of "Melrose Place", the perhaps most outrageous soap on Primetime television. Jamie is Lexi on the show, a bitchy, recovered medicine addict who spends most of her time trying to screw up other peoples lives. Yet, she remains one of the series most attractive women as well as the one that wears the least clothes. When "Melrose Place" started last autumn, it was aid that this would be the last year that the series would run before it would be cancelled. I sure hope the TV executives have changed their mind since then, because the series is still very vital despite the fact that it has been running for 6 years now. - Laura Prepon got to be on the list thanks to your votes. Two other ladies who also was voted onto the list were Charlize Theron and Reese Witherspoon. Charlize is one of the actresses that people who are supposed to know what they talk about see as a woman who will make it big time, career-wise during 1999. Reese may not be considered to be quite as promising, but obviously you guys seem to like her as much as I do. I personally think that she may even become bigger than Charlize, she is definitely more talented as an actress (have to admit that rarely means something, though...). Movers: - The new number one is the perhaps most talented actress in Hollywood right now, Gwyneth Paltrow. Gwyneth is THE hottest actress right now and she will probably win an Oscar as best actress for her role in "Shakespeare in Love". Rumor has it that she stole the part from her room mate at the time, Winona Ryder. Winona wasn't all that amused at the time it happened, but Gwyneth paid her back by introducing her to her to Matt Damon, who ended up being Winona's new boyfriend... Don't believe anything you read, but admit that it was quite a good story... - The Ally McBeal fever seems to continue to sweep over the world, a dangerous epidemic which no antidote seems to be able to stop. Soon, we will all get delirious and see dancing babies... - Alyssa Milano has been on a vacation to a sunny place with her just-married-to husband and she seemed to had forgotten to pack her bathing suite before she left. Of course, paparazzis did not waste any precious time and caught the star in the nude on the beach. It's kind of strange that the megastars these days haven't learnt that they never, ever should go skinny-dipping unless they really want the publicity (hey, it worked in Cannes 30 years ago and is still a winning concept if you want to get the attention of a photographer). What is so funny about this incident is that Alyssa's mother has worked so hard to clean up Alyssa's image by hunting down every single owner of a site on the Internet that publish pictures of Alyssa in the nude. And what happens? Alyssa gives her mother more work, to find the people who publish the new pictures should keep mummy dearest busy for the next half year... - Christina Ricci, actress of the year? Well, she at least seem to be the most photographed actress right now anyway. I guess the media likes the fact that she doesn't look like everybody else (I know I do). Almost made it into the list (we'll see next month): Angie Harmon, actress ("Law & order"), USA Alyson Hennigan, actress "Buffy the vampire slayer", USA Alicia Silverstone, actress, USA Bridget Fonda, actress, USA Melanie Lynskey, actress ("Heavenly creatures"), New Zealand Dana Delany, actress ("China Beach"), USA Portia de Rossi, actress ("Ally McBeal"), Australia Britney Spears, musician, USA Courteney Cox, actress, USA Tea Leoni, actress ("The naked truth"), USA Sharon Stone, actress, USA Elizabeth Hurley, actress/model, UK Sophie Marceau, actress, France Monica Potter, actress ("Con Air"), USA Whitney Houston, actress/singer, USA Alicia Witt, actress, USA  Holly Marie Combs, actress ("Charmed"), USA Shana Moakler, actress ("Pacific blue"), USA Shannen Doherty, actress ("Charmed"), USA  Michelle Williams, actress (Dawson's Creek"), 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