Okay, just so you\'re aware, this list started out with almost 30 names. That\'s a lot of whittling to get down to 5. Here goes nuttin\'. [b]5. Christina Hendricks[/b] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/BrotherReed/Ladies/hendricks.jpg[/img] Christina Hendricks may be best known as the buxom redhead on Mad Men; but she caught my attention as Saffron on Firefly, where she would catch the attention of any red-blooded male. She just oozes allure, at once sophisticated and sultry, alternating innocent and savage. [b]4. Bryce Dallas Howard[/b] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/BrotherReed/Ladies/howard.jpg[/img] Forget A Beautiful Mind, Apollo 13, Backdraft; Bryce is the best thing Ron Howard ever made. Sensitive and strong as Ivy in The Village, Bryce has gone on to break hearts as Gwen Stacy in Spider-Man 3 and also a host of lesser-known roles. Like Hendricks, she has angular features but with a soft edge, and that natural red hair and freckles. [b]3. Gillian Anderson[/b] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/BrotherReed/Ladies/anderson-1.jpg[/img] Trot out the redheads, cause Reed loves \'em. Especially, I love Special Agent Dana Scully, the smart and skeptical foil to the X-Files\' resident believer and alien enthusiast Fox Mulder. Anderson is a great actress and every time she got to shine during the show it made for a memorable episode. She hasn\'t done much else that\'s notable, but she spent nine seasons making a big impression on me. [b]2. Emily Mortimer[/b] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/BrotherReed/Ladies/mortimer.jpg[/img] Like Nathan, my first big celebrity crush comes in at number 2. Most people probably wouldn\'t recognize Mortimer\'s name and wouldn\'t pick her out of a lineup. For me, though, her adorable character across from Bruce Willis in Disney\'s The Kid put her on my map. She\'s an extremely cute brunette with big doe eyes and a soft voice, with a wonderful British accent to boot. She\'s more graceful than showy - maybe not \"hot\" in the same way as someone like Scarlett Johannson, but when the two starred together in Woody Allen\'s Match Point, it wasn\'t Scarlett I was looking out for. [b]1. Monica Bellucci[/b] [img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v63/BrotherReed/Ladies/bellucci.jpg[/img] While the other picks were hard, this one isn\'t. Bellucci is a flawless beauty. Flowing dark hair, shapely eyes, full lips, curves in all the right places. As she\'s aged (she\'s over 40 now) she\'s matured but remained gorgeous. If I were a sculptor who could choose any model to make out of marble or stone, it would be her. If there\'s a more beautiful woman somewhere on this planet, I for one have never seen her.