Now I think Penelope Cruz is scrawny. Body of a 13-year-old boy, no boobs, and kind of a big beak. But Rachel Weisz and Diane Lane, I’m totally with you on them!
And here I thougth it would take twenty-TWO posts for this thread to mutate from, “She/He isn’t really hot” to “Oh my god is she hot.”
that said, diane lane is up there with carla gugino. why, they’re both so lovely i’ve abandoned capital letters in their honor.
I find exagerated features completely unappealing.
Extra long eyelashes, inflated lips, gigantic breasts, ugh.
I find Angelina Jolie and Pamela Anderson to be two of the ugliest ones out there.
Jessica Simpson is very cute without makeup or her hair done. When she puts on her racoon eyes, poofs up her hair, cakes on the makeup, and draws on big fat lips she looks horendous.
In some cases, it’s acting that makes them appealing. For example, Renee Zellwegger is a chipmunk-cheeked ordinary looking gal, but in Chicago, she was hot as Rosie Hart. It’s her talent as an actress that did it.
In a whole 'nother case, look at Madonna. Off-stage, you couldn’t pick her out of a crowd. She has a talent for playing a sexpot, though, and that makes all the difference. Unfortunately, she can’t play anything else, and her acting career shows the strain.
So that’s what they meant. now it makes much more sense. 
Debra Messing. She is one seriously ugly woman. On the reverse, I think Helen Hunt and Laura Dern are astonishingly beautiful, but I don’t get a single “Amen”.
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Gena Davis. And she’s getting worse with age.
Hmm. I think all three of them are hot. 'Course, my appreciation for Miss Dern varies randomly and depends on how prominent her pins are at any given moment.
The WordMan Beauty Evaluative Index ™ - non-gender specific
There are three things that contribute to beauty:
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Youth - the vibrance of youth is a big deal, or Oil of Olay and Botox would be out of business
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Classic “Lines” - aside from the humorous posts above, there are classical definitions of beauty/attractiveness, e.g., the Nefertiti bust, Roman sculptures, etc.
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Character - some people just…radiate confidence, strength, intelligence, what have you. You may not think Barbra Streisand, say, is physically attractive but she has a strong character and sense of self.
Observations:
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Individually, we tend to prioritize these factors differently - some prefer Character over Youth, some Classic Lines over Character, etc…so if someone looks at a celebrity and sees a Beauty, they may be looking at Character, whereas another person will look at another dimension and just not get it.
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Celebrities who were very attractive at one point may become less so if/when their proportions change - e.g., people who aren’t classically beautiful don’t age as well as, say Audrey Hepburn. I think Uma Thurman is beautiful still, but can see where Youth played a big part in bringing her physical attributes into a certain focus.
My $.02 of completely meandering thinking on this…
Kirsten Dunst.
First, note that I am generally irriated with the internet tendency to pick out flaws on someone who is generally far hotter than the average male could ever hope to get with a billion dollars and a 12" wang, so as to somehow look superior and not be one of the “masses” who finds the person hot. This is known as the, “Yeah, but her nose is slightly small,” or, “Yeah, but her elbows are too pointy,” syndrome.
But Kirsten Dunst is completely unappealing to me. That grotesque, “I can’t force my face into a full smile, so I’ll walk around with a ‘minorly bemused’ look all the fucking time,” smile she has. The somewhat flabby, mottled skin. The set of pointy little grey chicklets she has that pass for teeth. The lack of acting ability, other than the “winsomely wistful” expression that could also be gas buildup (see also - grotesque constant half smile discussed above).
I’m not a fan.
I always interpreted this to mean that “classically beautiful”=big, obvious nose.
Many of the women who get sex-symbol status do nothing for me. Pamela Anderson, for example, never looked appealing to me. The few times I’ve been unable to avoid hearing/reading her views on some issue only make her less attractive. While I appreciate an athletic build, there are few of those in Hollywood, it seems. More often one gets the “stick-with-boobs-and-skull” instead, which does absolutely nothing for me.
On the other hand, I’d crawl, nekked, across an NYC Avenue, strewn with broken glass, without waiting for the light to change, just to let Jennifer Connelly know that I think she’s one of the ten hottest women in the history of the world. 
Why that should show anything other than masochism and stupidity on my part, I have no idea.
I agree that Penelope Cruz is scrawny. She also looks like she has a moustache problem, which is a definite turn-off. The hottest woman I’ve seen lately in a movie was Musetta Vander who played one of the sirens in* O, Brother, Where Art Thou.* She could turn me into a frog any time she wants. I’d have no objections. I also think Tamlyn Tomita is beautiful. Natalie Portman is incredibly cute but she doesn’t quite reach beautiful in my eyes.
I would include both Diana Rigg and Lauren Bacall in the ageless beauty category.
Include me also in the people puzzled by attribution of beauty to Cameron Diaz. Interesting to look at- yes. Beautiful- no.
Well, then, I must ask the same question of you; are you sure you’re looking at the same Jennifer Connelly the rest of us are seeing? When she accepted her Oscar, she looked like she’d spent the previous four months in Dachau.
Kate Winslet I’ll give you. Catherine Zeta-Jones is pretty slim.
Renee Zellwegger was never prettier than she was in “Bridget Jones’s Diary,” when she put on some weight and actually looked like a woman.
I agree entirely. When Bridget complained about her appearance, I felt like smacking everyone who’d ever lied to the poor girl.
I almost started a thread on this once… I see now it would have been a hit.
My two biggest ones.
Carmen Electra- Sorry but her face is average for a draq queen… and although her body is “nice” there is nothing sexy about her. I can safely say that if the universe went topsy turvy and she ever solicited me, I would have no trouble turning her away.
Jennifer Garner- She has MAN HANDS. If it weren’t for the stylists and make up folks she would looke like trailer trash.
I used to feel the same toward Angelina Jolie but lately her look has grown on me and I no longer consider her fugly… she’s actually attractive to me now.
Sarah Jessica Parker, another one of the equine-faced camp.
Julianne Moore, just meh.
Juliette Lewis, I’d hit it, but I’m easy. I don’t think she’s all that.
BAH! I think she is beyond an earthly beauty and is somewhere in the realm of God’s own poetry.
Yes. She will be mine.
Penelope Cruz would be perfect as Alice the Goon in the Popeye sequel.
Do you see that Rebecca Loos? I would’nt touch her with yours.
And do you see that Paris Hilton? Sh’e like a pull-through for a rifle.
And that Uma Thurman? She could smoke a cigarette in the shower.
And Kirsten Dunst? She could eat an apple through a letterbox.
I have no idea what half of those phrases mean.
Apple through a letterbox? Pulled through a rifle? (I assume that’s what you were getting at) 
And I gather that you think Uma is hot? Cause she can still be “smokin’” while all wet? Or something?