TOP 50 list of the hottest women of the world, May '97 ====================================================== (Numbers within parenthesis are last months positions) 1 (10) Geri Halliwell, singer, UK 2 (2) Gillian Anderson, actress, USA 3 (5) Courtney Love, singer/musician/actress, USA 4 (7) Teri Hatcher, actress, USA 5 (3) Toni Braxton, singer, USA 6 (1) Emma Lee Bunton, singer, UK 7 (4) Juliette Binoche, actress, France 8 (6) Gwen Stefani, singer, USA 9 (9) Jennifer Aniston, actress, USA 10 (21) Frances McDormand, actress, USA 11 (11) Sandra Bullock, actress, USA 12 (33) Shania Twain, country singer, Canada 13 (18) Neve Campbell, actress, Canada 14 (22) Cameron Diaz, actress/model, USA 15 (8) Madonna, singer/actress, USA 16 (13) Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress/singer, USA 17 (14) Gwyneth Paltrow, actress, USA 18 (29) Mira Sorvino, actress, USA 19 (28) Renée Zellweger, actress, USA 20 (12) Demi Moore, actress, USA 21 (15) Alanis Morissette, singer, Canada 22 (17) Sharon Stone, actress, USA 23 (37) Martina Hingis, tennis player, Switzerland 24 (-) Jenny McCarthy, actress/model, USA 25 (38) Victoria Addams, singer, UK 26 (19) Ashley Judd, actress, USA 27 (23) Lisa Kudrow, actress, USA 28 (16) Lauryn Hill, singer/rapper, USA 29 (27) Pamela Anderson, actress/model, Canada 30 (31) Uma Thurman, actress, USA 31 (25) Louise Nurding, singer, UK 32 (20) Tyra Banks, supermodel/actress, USA 33 (40) Kristin Scott-Thomas, actress, UK 34 (24) Nicole Kidman, actress, Australia 35 (30) Bjork, singer, Iceland 36 (26) Tori Amos, singer/musician, USA 37 (34) Heather Locklear, actress, USA 38 (-) Tea Leoni, actress, USA 39 (42) Vanessa Marcil, actress, USA 40 (36) Liv Tyler, actress/model, USA 41 (32) Kate Winslet, actress, UK 42 (-) Vanessa-Mae, musician, Singapore 43 (35) Julia Ormond, actress, UK 44 (49) Julianna Margulies, actress, USA 45 (41) Alicia Silverstone, actress/model, USA 46 (46) Kim Delaney, actress, USA 47 (-) Lisa Rinna, actress, USA 48 (-) Halle Berry, actress, USA 49 (44) Cindy Crawford, supermodel/TV hostess/actress, USA 50 (48) D'Arcy Wretzky-Brown, musician, USA Bye to: Geena Davis, actress, USA Salma Hayek, actress, Mexico Shirley Manson, singer, UK Maria Grazia Cucinotta, actress, Italy Emma Thompson, actress/writer, UK The list is as usual based on qualities such as beauty, sex appeal, charisma, intelligence, recent efforts and charm. Although it may not seem so, THE LIST IS BASED ON A EUROPEAN PERSPECTIVE OF THINGS. Newcomers in this months chart: - This month's highest new entry is the one and only wackiest girl on Television, Jenny McCarthy. She is definetely one of a kind, there has never been a playmate like her in the history of Playboy before. She has since then proven that she is more than just a pretty face (and body) and has now her own show on MTV. Way to go, girl... - Tea Leoni has been doing really well with her show "The Naked Truth". She is also doing very well in her private life, since she has hooked up with the perhaps most desired batchelor in the world, Dave Duchovny. The two seems to share a common interest which bounds them together, e.g. sex... - Vanessa-Mae is just 18 years old, but has already started a revolution in the field of classical music. Her violine playing is a mixture of classical music, modern dance music and rock'n'roll. - Lisa Rinna is the women with the lips on "Melrose Place" recently married Harry Hamlin, most well-known for his part in L.A. Law in the late '80s and early '90s. Hope she knows what she is doing, since this was not the first time for Harry. He has been married to Bond beauty Urula Andress, Falcon Crest vixen Laura Johnson and the Paper Doll Nicolette Sheridan, so this was his first non blonde spouse. - Halle Berry has been around for quite a while now. She started out as a Beauty Queen, but went into acting and proved that she was good at that as well. Movers: - The Spice Girls are still the hottest bunch of women in the world. On the list this month it is however Geri that moved up to the no. 1 position, thereby replacing the former no. 1 Spice Girl Emma. Several people have actually suggested that if it wasn't for the fact that a lot of nude pictures of Geri beginning to show up last year, the Spice Girls never would had reached a broader audience. Before th pictures was published, it was mostly kids who listened to the Spice Girls, but the pictures opened up the gates for an older, male audience as well, so maybe, just maybe, it was some smart PR Agent for the Spice Girl that came up with the idea to "leak" the pictures to the press... - It does not hurt your career one bit to win an Oscar, just ask Frances McDormand who won an Oscar in March. She has never been getting this much attention before and she deserves it. - Mira Sorvino is now dating Quentin Tarantino. That's a pretty smart move, if the guy actually can write another good script again soon (something which he hasn't done for quite a while now, maybe it is true that he stole the ideas for his first scripts from others). - Martina Hingis got injured a bit recently, but it is quite clear that she is the world's best female tennis player now. I would like to include more great athletes on the list, but unfortunately very few are popular in several countries... Almost made it into the list (we'll see next month): - Carmen Electra, America's new little sweetheart. - Stephanie Seymour, supermodel that has returned to the business again. - Brooke Langton, Samantha in "Melrose Place". - Krista Allen, Billie Reed in "Days of our lives". - Kathleen Robertson, the Chancellor's daughter in Bev Hills - Yasmeen Ghauri, is it perhaps time for a comeback on the list for her? - Corrine Drewery from Swing Out Sister, due to release a new album. - Victoria Silvstedt, Playmate of the Year 1997. - Michelle Gayle, soul singer /actress from UK. Comments, nominations, etc. are as always welcome. Just remember that a nomination such as "Ms. x should be in because of her big hooters" hardly will be taken seriously. Until next month, //////////////////// // Mauvaise Honte // ////////////////////