They Know What Boys Like?

There's a lot going on in entertainment right now with summer movies (see Mission: Impossible but not Poseidon), May sweeps with plenty of series and season finales, networks announcing their schedules for next fall, several fantastic new cds in stores, Broadway theater award nominations and the major International film festival just about to start.

But leaving all that alone for the moment I'd like to comment briefly on Maxim magazine's "Hot 100" list, which celebrates the most bodacious women in showbiz for a 18-35 year old male audience (read the press release and full list here).

Eva Longoria is #1 on the list for the second year in a row. And good for her. The top ten is filled with even more obvious choices like Scarlett Johansson, Angelina Jolie, Jessica Alba and Keira Knightley.

And yet browsing the list you learn several interesting things like:

-Nicollette Sheridan (#48) is so much hotter than Brooke Burke (#94), Elisha Cuthbert (#92) and hot cylons Grace Park (#93) and Tricia Helfer (#95)

-Fergie's humps (#36) are significantly hotter than Shakira's hips (#60)

-Mariah Carey (#22) is one of the 25 hottest women around, hotter than Charlize Theron (#25), Mandy Moore (#28), Uma Thurman (#30) and Jaime Pressly (#34)

Uh... say what? And huh?

And as the press release points out:

Notable omissions on this year's list include Britney Spears, new mom Katie Holmes, Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek.

I can understand a dip in the respective Hottie Stocks of Spears and Holmes, and we'll leave Lopez alone, but what's justifiable about leaving off SALMA HAYEK in favor of choices like Teri Hatcher (#73) and the Hilton sisters (#38 and 62)?

Of course lists like this are ridiculous, but if you're going to do this, do it right.