And the hottest woman of all time is…
…(drum roll please)….
Are you kidding? Please look at the woman on the left, and then compare her to the two others:
Aniston and Spears don’t even look like women, they look like girls. And although they’re attractive enough, you can see equally attractive teens every day at your local mall.
I don’t get it. But then again, I’m not a man.
Neo, this is the Doeppelgaenger to teenaged girls gushing over Justin Bieber.
Boys vote for girls; men vote for women. Assuming, of course, that those voting have anything more than an academic interest in the opposite sex, which in this case is questionable.
Funny? Audrey Hepburn was funny, and makes Jennifer Aniston and Britney Spears (and Madonna [heck is she doing in there?]) seem like saltless crackers.
Next up: best writer of all time: J.K. Rowling.
Neither are many men, men. So many seem to have devolved into matching stick figures. They, like women, are increasingly thin, without chests, more boyish than manly.
I recall back in the Pleistocene era beautiful young women, models and actresses, sporting figures and preferring men. I am reminded of the beautiful Lauren Bacall – still physically in model mode – but oh she could move, calling attention to every part of her.
And no cabana boy for her – Humphrey Bogart.
Kolnai,
No, it won’t be Rowling; it will be some zombie author.
Catherine Deneuve. She (Oh no, now I want to write bad checks, commit crimes).
expat –
Yes, just goes to show my ignorance of the Great Books 🙂
James, I once read someone describe a beautiful woman as “the kind that makes you want to run off with her and rob filling stations.”
Always makes me chuckle.
Anniston and Spears? Little, sexless punkettes.
Many of these stars and popular culture icons spend more on their appearance than I earn every year.
The most beautiful woman I ever saw was a late-teen French-Vietnamese woman. She wore no make-up, she didn’t need it. She didn’t so much walk across a room as gliding from one point to another. She wore the traditional ao dais and after 42 years I’ve still not forgotten her.
Aniston and Spears aren’t even to being in the same league with Monroe. Also, let’s not forget someone who is that league: Sophia Loren.
make that “who is in that league:”
I’ve always been attracted to brunettes. And mostly the ones in eras from before my time. For example, Vivien Leigh at the age when she made Gone With The Wind is near perfection. Or Elizabeth Taylor in her 20s.
And while not a brunette, I absolutely can not quibble at all with Raquel Welch coming in #2.
Here you go, Scott. Scroll down.
http://ace.mu.nu/archives/324033.php#324033
Now we’re talkin’.
Occam,
You’re quite right. Please excuse me though, I am in the middle of a french crime wave.
What Bettie Page didn’t make the list?
Maybe it’s the girl next door look.
Personally, I like the exotic look. Everybody’s definition of exotic is different but Tia Carrere is a good example for me.
Nothing wrong with Jennifer Anniston’s figure that I couldn’t fix with a couple of cheeseburgers, baskets of french fries and a couple of malted milk shakes.
The stuff between the ears will take a little longer…
What if you put Angelina Jolie up against Marilyn Monroe? I think it would be a toss up. Plus Marilyn is not a natural blonde. I am sure Jennifer Aniston would seethe if she lost to Jolie again.
Neo’s right about the ordinary better-than-average-looking woman.
See them by the hundreds on campuses.
Thing is, when seen in person, the hot young women seem unattainable. Aniston and suchlike are frequently paired–in their screen work–with guys who aren’t all that. IOW, many males watching figure they, themselves, would have a chance. Look at Julia whatshername on Friends. Those guys taking up her time? Makes the viewer think better of his chances in the real world. Scam.
For some reason, Michelle Pfeiffer has always rattled my cage.
And I agree about Sophia Loren…a total woman who is a standard to measure against…even now.
The problem with all of these current day supposed cuties–and I agree, Texexec, that Michelle Pfeiffer with that pouty litlle mouth is very sexy–begins when they open their mouths off screen, and we discover that they are, almost one and all, uniformly dumb,uneducated but totally propagandized, far Left hypocrites and cretins.
Left to Right:
1. Woman who was exceptionally talented and basically created herself to rule over sex and the ideal of beauty in the 1950’s and beyond.
2. Dumb girl
3. Dumber girl
Sorta corresponds to the fact that sooner or later you gotta get out of bed and talk. I don’t find much enjoyment in conversations with the female equivalent of pet rocks.
Then there was Jan Smithers as Baily Quarters on the old WKRP show. Hubba, Hubba!
http://theendzone.blogspot.com/2008/01/hedy-lamarr.html
this post has Scarlett Johansson, Kate Winslett, Jessica Alba, Janine Turner. http://theendzone.blogspot.com/2009/11/friday-hot-curvaceous-scarlett.html
Just a quick aside to Steve: Angelina Jolie???!!! Are YOU kidding? Yuck! Stringy hair; anorexic big time…and not even pretty. At least in my opinion. And then there’s the sleaze factor: She’s covered all over her body in tatoos. She was a goth whack job who wore a vial of her husband’s blood around her neck when married to Billy Bob Thornton. Just because she’s changed her P.R. strategy getting pics in the papers & mags. with the brood she’s collected like baseball cards, and posing for pics with kids in Africa before she drives off in her A/C’d limo….. But, whatever floats your boat. I guess.
Back to neo’s post — I think the key to the result of this poll is the source: Men’s Health which I believe is more of a young men’s magazine, in addition to which it was an online poll. That latter fact in itself will limit the pool of responders to a rather homogeneous group who probably get most of their info from web. And since some of the really hot women were around (Marilyn Monroe, Liz Taylor, Sophia Loren, Raquel Welsh, Catherine Deneuve…etc) the delivery of news, information, publicity has completely changed. Much of the familiarity factor depends more on publicists who today have many more outlets available to them thanks to modern technology: the instant delivery of news, thousands if not millions of websites and blogs on Internet and so forth. Jennifer Aniston uses her love life to get P.R. — who she’s dating (usually with a count of how many months, weeks, days hours) , what she’s wearing, what restaurant she goes to, how old she is getting and how badly she wants a baby and how much time she has left….you can’t get away from it. Britney Spears retains interest through reports of her (often unfortunate) life choices, her breakdowns, curiosity since the breakdown, scandalous behavior and/or outfits. Angelina Jolie has become famous in a major way since she picked up Brad Pitt (funny, because since he’s been with her, his fame and success have ebbed), and uses her children for PR exposure. (I’ve actually been rather surprised since most celebrities are much more reticent to expose their children to the media for safety and protection’s sake. Even tho’ Brad and Angelina I’m sure have security) These days, I can’t seem to avoid pics of Angelina with the kids — whether online, at the market, in the news…. They say there is no such thing as bad PR and these people obviously believe that. No mystery why these women are much higher in men’s (and poll voters) streams of consciousness.
gcotharn: “Hedley, Hedley!”
You don’t need to be a man to not get it. I don’t think real men and women vote. I am certainly with you. Now, I might have to recuse myself being that “the woman on the left” was the first woman I fell in love with. Hmm, as much as a three year old can. I was certain I was going to marry her (and if she had lived, I might well have somehow become her, what, 40th husband by then?). hehe
Much like Ph. Ds in English, who “know all about English and Literature” but never print a book, Hollywood, and many other areas, are exclusive, and wrong. They have lost touch with reality, common sense, and real taste. Then again, the emperor of Japan eats 25 year old salt-rotted fish and seems to love it just swell. Something about the emperor and no clothes all around? Yeah, probably. When did Hollywood become a joke? When it started to actually believe it’s own hype?
John: actually, Betty Page was on the list.
Natalie Wood was not, however.
Sofia Loren, and Marilyn produced far more heat than Jennifer Anniston. The only one who almost matches them is Angelina Jolie. And it is not just appearance. It’s a radiation of a kind.
Not even in the top twenty-five!
If you want to talk about attractive but slim women, I’ve seen village girls in Thailand and Indonesia–long-haired, entirely without makeup, and who spent maybe $10 on the capris, t-shirts, and flip-flops that they wore–who would effortlessly put Anniston and Spears to shame.
Interested in more full-figured women, you say? Try Colombia. I’ve known more than one “confirmed bachelor” to come back from there with a new, curvy wife in tow (and to be ecstatic about it).
The whole Hollywood “glamor” thing has always been a joke to me. I find real people much more interesting than the plastic blow-up dolls that pass for today’s movie stars (and this includes the “men”). Doom is definitely onto something about Hollywood coming to believe its own hype, and to be much poorer for it.
Hottest CELEBRITY woman. Yaawwwnnnn.
You will see much hotter women simply by waiting for a flight at the Miami airport.
Sela Ward is my favorite beauty.
At 63 years old, I’m still smitten when I see her on TeeVee…
By the way I have “Man Boobs” bigger than Anniston and Spears. Hehehe
Grace Kelly, Jean Tierney, Linda Darnell, Carol Lombard, Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Deborah Kerr, well you get the picture.
Was told, not in a position to check, that the best place to look for attractive young women outside of a venue specifically for attractive young women is an upscale church in the South in the spring.
Doesn’t anyone remember Brigitte Bardot? Yes, she aged poorly and went batshit crazy, but in her day she could cause spontaneous combustion in your pants.
West: Bardot is on the list, as well. I couldn’t figure out a way to access the whole list except by laboriously clicking, photo by photo, but she’s somewhere on it (as is Sophia Loren), just not all that high up.
The idea the Jennifer Aniston is considered hotter than those others is almost amusing.
Thanks, Neo, I did not bother to look. n general, I’d rate all the women who became famous before the 90’s over the contemporaries.
And Jennifer Aniston? Never did a thing for me. She cute, but a raving beauty? Not so much.
Neo:
It’s not just you. Aniston is cute, but not interesting to look at. Spears always looked to me like a 10-year-old boy with breast implants. Sure, there are modern stars who I think are really attractive, but going back to the beauties of generations past, I think it’s easier to find ones I think are really attractive, and like a lot of commenters posted, who actually look like grown-up women.
Of course, I’m one of those weird men who finds a woman more physically attractive when I learn she has the kind of personality that attracts me as well, and since I thought my wife-to-be was a “babe” when I first met her, getting to know her made her all the more attractive to me and 20 years later, I feel exactly the same way, even more so.
And, as another commenter posted, too many of these celebrities end up being airheads and terminal liberals, which is a huge turnoff. Hopefully, tastes with once again gravitate towards women who dress and act like adults, and who aren’t built like famine victims too, but I’m not holding my breath.
The votes must have been polled at “spring break”….
I think we discussed part of this some time back. There was an accent used by women in the movies, and by some of the men, called on one hand, “received theater pronunciation” and is apparently similar to or identical to the obsolete mid-atlantic accent. FDR had the latter. You can hear this from the Thirties through the Fifties, or into the Sixties, barely.
Point was to imply class. It had overtones of upper class Brit without the “I’m upper class and you’re not” possibility of the Brit thing.
Beautiful women–not girls–from the plains, or the south, or wherever, learned to speak this as a signifier of class. Both in the movies and in the studio-scripted public appearances and interviews.
Point was to imply class as an attractor. Just being beautiful and camera-friendly wasn’t considered sufficient.
Seen any of that around recently?
Me either.
If the Jennifer Anniston pick wasn’t bad enough, they’ve got Madonna in the top ten. Madonna. She’s a savvy businesswoman/self-promoter who’s been able to parlay middling talent and looks into quite a career – but she’ ain’t a beauty.
You don’t have to be a man to recognize female beauty, and this ranking, which doesn’t even include Natalie Wood, is just wrong.
Look, Jennifer Aniston is hot, no doubt. But at the same time, hottest of all time? Not only does that claim overreach, it falls flat when you see classic luminaries such as Bardot, Monroe, Loren, Welch, Taylor, etc. not just ranked lower, but *far* lower on that same list.
I don’t want to denigrate Ms. Aniston. Again, I think she’s gorgeous. But at the same time, there’s a difference between hottie of the moment and all time classic beauty. Aniston is frikkin’ gorgeous, but classic beauty is a whole other level. Maybe some future pop culture analysts will eventually put her with the other demigoddesses, but part of what makes classic what it is is the consistency of people’s opinion through time. Monroe has stood up, and so have Loren, Taylor, Welch, etc. Aniston simply hasn’t been around long enough to have done the same. Even *if* they’re on to something – and for the record, I disagree that they are – they’re adding her to the pantheon far too soon.
I hate to state something that might be perceived as slamming on Aniston’s looks, but this list is just plain off. Then again, we’re talking about it, so you can say it fulfilled it’s *actual* purpose: Making people talk about it. That must ultimately be why it was published.
Linda Darnell in “a Letter to Three Wives”.
Helen Mirin in “The Long Good Friday”.
Juliette Binoche in just about anything.
I might also suggest
Fanny Ardant.
Anon, Don
As far as beautiful women go, I found one 29 years ago and I married her. Still beautiful after all these years and still my best friend.
As a Navy man, I’ve had opportunity to travel the world over and I’ve seen beauties that put the Hollywood selectees to shame. I’ve been aiming my 23 year old son to the Baltics lately and, specifically, Lithuania. When I was a younger officer I went to pubs there and noticed that the places were full with women and few men. I asked why. To a number the women said, ‘they hate the Russian men…” I could understand that. The Russian men treated their women counterparts like dog *&^%. The Lithuanian women were wall to wall and every one a TEN! I thought I walked into a Victory Secret Cave! While I was trapped at a table with about a dozen of these beauties (no make up!) I asked them how is it possible that there could be so many gorgeous women in one place? They claimed that they were average women!!! The average in Lithuania is a TEN! Good God. All, by the way were good girls. All women if faith and no make up. In addition, they wore conservative clothes and NO heels. Flat Belgian shoes. Women, are you paying attention???? NO Make up, faith, and conservative dress! By the way, all were in superb physical condition too.
It’s a ridiculous choice. Either their second place choice of Raquel Welch or their third-place choice of Marilyn Monroe would be acceptable. If Andy Dufresne had you on his prison cell wall, you’re in the discussion. Of the two, I like Welch better, but that’s just because I prefer brunettes and read heads. Angelina Jolie is up there too, and Cindy Crawford, Salma Hayak and Tyra Banks are all criminally underrated. And Catherine Zeta-Jones isn’t on the list at all!
Anyway, “Hottest woman of all time” is a hard thing to do because the criteria is so inherently subjective. It’s like trying to name the greatest song of all time. I think it’s “Hotel California” by The Eagles, but for people who don’t like classic rock, that would be wrong. It just comes down to what you like, and taste in women is similar. Some men like blonds, others like brunettes, and others like red heads. But some women are so gorgeous that just about every man would agree that, even if they’re not his particular type, they’re objectively gorgeous. Any of the women I named above (and a fair number of others–and this is obviously restricted to famous women because many of the most beautiful women I’ve ever seen are not famous) could be ranked at the top, and the list would be fine.
But Anniston is different. She’s obviously very attractive, but she’s definitely not the most beautiful woman in the world, let alone the most beautiful woman of all time. She’s not even in the discussion for the title. For evidence, all we need to know is that Brad Pitt left her for Jolie, who was (and arguably still is) one of the most beautiful women in the world. That’s why her selection is ridiculous. They should have gone with Welch or Monroe, and nobody could complain.