TOP 50 list of the hottest women of the world, November '97 =========================================================== (Numbers within parenthesis are last months positions) 1 (1) Mariah Carey, musician, USA 2 (-) Janet Jackson, musician/actress, USA 3 (4) Gillian Anderson, actress, USA 4 (5) Neve Campbell, actress, Canada 5 (3) Demi Moore, actress, USA 6 (6) Alicia Silverstone, actress/model, USA 7 (2) Milla Jovovich, actress, Ukraine 8 (38) Sarah Michelle Geller, actress, USA 9 (15) Emma Lee Bunton, singer, UK 10 (10) Geri Halliwell, singer, UK 11 (14) Jewel, musician, USA 12 (7) Salma Hayek, actress, Mexico 13 (9) Toni Braxton, singer, USA 14 (12) Sandra Bullock, actress, USA 15 (20) Victoria Addams, singer, UK 16 (17) Martina Hingis, tennis player, Switzerland 17 (21) Nicole Kidman, actress, Australia 18 (13) Gwyneth Paltrow, actress, USA 19 (35) Pamela Anderson, actress/model, Canada 20 (18) Gwen Stefani, singer, USA 21 (8) Renée Zellweger, actress, USA 22 (19) Julia Roberts, actress, USA 23 (24) Sharon Stone, actress, USA 24 (11) Linda Fiorentino, actress, USA 25 (30) Jennifer Aniston, actress, USA 26 (25) Lisa Kudrow, actress, USA 27 (23) Jenny McCarthy, actress/model, USA 28 (16) Mira Sorvino, actress, USA 29 (27) Courtney Love, singer/musician/actress, USA 30 (-) Katja Schuurman, TV presentor/actress, Holland 31 (29) Kim Delaney, actress, USA 32 (34) Claire Danes, actress, USA 33 (22) Teri Hatcher, actress, USA 34 (31) Jennifer Love Hewitt, actress/singer, USA 35 (36) Kristen Johnston, actress, USA 36 (28) Liv Tyler, actress/model, USA 37 (33) Elle MacPherson, supermodel/actress, Australia 38 (26) Cameron Diaz, actress/model, USA 39 (37) Laetitia Casta, model, France 40 (-) Melissa Joan Hart, actress, USA 41 (43) Fiona Apple, musician, USA 42 (44) Gina Gershon, actress, USA 43 (42) Ashley Judd, actress, USA 44 (40) Claudia Schiffer, supermodel, Germany 45 (32) Uma Thurman, actress, USA 46 (-) Stephanie Seymour, supermodel, USA 47 (41) Kristin Scott-Thomas, actress, UK 48 (-) Jamie Luner, actress, USA 49 (45) Heather Locklear, actress, USA 50 (46) Kate Winslet, actress, UK Bye to: Julianna Margulies, actress, USA Juliette Binoche, actress, France Courteney Cox, actress, USA Helen Hunt, actress, USA Reese Witherspoon, actress, USA 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: - Janet Jackson is back, better than ever and with a new look. Her new album "The Velvet Rope" will most definetely be a huge success, so it turned out to be a good thing that she once agaoin teamed up with the Jam/Lewis production team when it was time to make an album. Janet is the highest placed newcomer in the history of this list, so congratulations... - Sometimes, it takes a while until a TV series that is a big hit in the US crosses the Atlantic to Europe. This is for instance the case for the TV series "Sabrina Teen Witch", which stars on of the cutest girl in the whole world, Melissa Joan Hart. Of course, Melissa already became famous for her role as Clarissa in "Clarissa Explains it all", so she's hardly a new face in the biz. Still, she is far more intersting now when she has blossomed out into a beautful young woman... - Katja Schuurman has been well-known in Holland for years, but it isn't until now that the rest of Europe has had theopportunity to discover who she is, sicne she now has her own show on MTV Europe, called "So 90s". What, does Katja do then? Well, the question is perhaps more what she doesn't do, since she is a dancer, singer, actress and now also a TV presentor... - I just relized that Stephanie Seymour, although nominated several times, never actually been on this list before. So I guess it's time for a change, since Steph is one of the most requested women in the history of the list. You want her, you got her... - Jamie Luner is one of the new faces of "Melrose Place". Jamie used to star in the dreadful soap "Savannah", so to take the leap to "Melrose Place" must be considered as a big step forward. Isn't amazing how "Melrose Place" continues to have a great cast, season after season, although a majority of the original cast now is gone? Movers: - Yes, Mariah Carey remains stuck to the no 1 position this month too. It was quite a while since someone managed to remain no 1 on the list more than one month in a row (to be more exact it was Jennifer Aniston who was no 1 for three months back in the beginning of 1996). Mariah continues to be successful in the charts with her "Butterfly" album and also continues to look better than ever. Will she manage to be no 1 next month too? Tune in and find out... (shameless advertising, huh?) - Poor Pamela Anderson, when her and her husband Tommy Lee's intimate tape of their honeymoon was stolen and sold it was bad enough. Now, sequences from the tape is spread over the Net and thanx to modern technology that means that it is all of a sudden far more widely spread than when it was sold by perhaps not so reliable retailers. Please, don't ask me for the movies, I'm just delivering the news... - The traditional Spice Girls gossip of the month: Rumour has it that all five girls of the Spice Girls get their periods at the same time each month. A scientist was interviewed on the subject and said that this phenomenon is quite common among a group of women who live very close to each other. It used to be a good thing back in the days when we all lived in caves, because the men who went hunting together could all stay home at the same time and concentrating on conceiving babies when the time was right. Guess you really didn't want to know that, did you...? Almost made it into the list (we'll see next month): - Ophelie Winter, French singer. - Robin Tunney, actress for instance known from "The craft". - Kathy Ireland, the always so popular All-American supermodel. - Anna Kournikokva, who scores big time on the tennis court. - Veronica Ruiz de Velasco, Mexican beauty and painter. - Yancy Butler, hot actress, who you can for instance see in "The Ex". 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 // ////////////////////