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Trade out Eva Green for Claudine Auger and we're good.

Scrolling down, all I could think is that Ursula Andress must be number 1. Nothing else mattered, and I was pleasantly surprised.

Is there a best Bond song?

Is there a best Bond song?

Yes, Radiohead's cover of "Nobody Does It Better".

p.s. I'm sorry, Daniela Bianchi. I just had to go with the brunette and wetsuit there. Me and Matt Munro still love you.

Jay, I'd go with Maud Adams myself.

Rowles I'm not surprised by your selection, in your view white women are the cat's meow. I'd take Halle Berry over any Bond bitch in the history of Bond bitches.

Jay: Not bad, but I still swear by Shirley Bassey's "Diamonds Are Forever". Radiohead's was pretty good, but nothing beats Miss Bassey.

I had a girlfriend who used to call me "Goldfinger."

BARBARA BACH.

No contest.

I'll never understand why Ursula Andress is invariably #1 on these lists. She's not any more beautiful than a whole bunch of the others, and her character was one of the most useless in the series' history.

Count me among the Claudine Auger fans. And Carole Bouquet from For Your Eyes Only was ridiculously hot, with the best legs of any human being ever.

But you've all seen "Operation Double 007" with both Lois Maxwell and Daniela Bianchi and starring Neal Connery, right?

The best Bond song is "You Only Live Twice"

My favorite Bond girl is Michelle Yeoh because she's a badass, but the hottest Bond girl is indeed Ursula Andress. Hey Halle Berry, go screw yourself, you rip-off artist!

This really should have been a Top 10. In additon to the other suggestions I'd submit Izabella Scorupco from "GoldenEye" and Rosamund Pike from "Die Another Day". But you really can't go wrong with ANY of the Bond girls. Well, except Grace Jones.

Question: Pussy Galore's Real Name was Honor Blackman? That is wonderful to me in many different ways.

Claudine Auger had such a cute little tummy. Women in older movies had the cutest tummies. I think I have a problem because that's always the first thing I notice.

Ursula Andress' face is freaking gorgeous. I mean just look at that thing.

Every bond girl is hot minus maybe Teri Hatcher.

Sorry Slim but Denise Richards was the worst. Hands down. Even Brosnan looks like he can't keep a straight face.

If I were switching sides it would be Eva Green in all five spots, but since he was mentioned: a bit of Bond trivia. Did you know that Otto Goldfinger is based on the architect Erno Goldfinger who moved to London from Germany and bought land near Ian Flemming on which he demolished the existing Georgian house and built one of those inter-war monstrosities full of glass and white stuccoed corners that modernists absolutely love. Flemming was so incensed that Goldfinger had (in his opinion) destroyed his old neighborhood that he named the villain after him in revenge. I love Ian Flemming.

I think I love Ian Flemming now too, PaddyDog.

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Yuuuuup, I believe you are right, doesn't get stupider than "Nuculear-Scientist-Hooker."

Dustin mentioned her in the post and Kayanne made a comment about her too, JapJay.

Swap out Eva Green for Diana Rigg and Ursula Andress for Michele Yeoh and we're good.

For the record, Jane Seymour's Solitaire has always been my number two.

I can't believe no one else here likes Barbara Bach. She's absolutely stunning, and her Agent XXX was the first worthy foil for Bond.

When I was a nine I wanted to be a Bond Girl or a lawyer.

I've only abandoned one of those childish dreams and I ain't in law school.

I'm so happy Pajiba isn't the cheap Hollywood-fellating type of website which would undoubtedly have put Halle Berry on that list. She's pretty, yes, but grossly overrated in my opinion. And she was horrible in Bond.

I am not familiar with No. 5

The woman or the song? Both are lovely.

Jay: I was referring to the song... major parts of my body are quite familiar with (at least the idea of) Ms. Janssen.

she's pretty, but not exactly captivating on film.

I guess that's my minority opinion on Eva Green.

It was pretty much implied in Casino Royale that the Eva Green character loved the anal.

It's in there...

Very respectable philosophy, Jay.

Barbara Bach

Jane Seymour

have to be in top 5

My list (in no particular order, just because):

Britt Ekland
Halle Berry
Barbara Carrera
Izabella Scorupco
Olga Kurylenko
Famke Janssen

2. Jennifer Tilley

1. Gina Gershon

Oh, wait ... you said "BOND" women?

Shit. Nevermind.

I don't know shit about the ladies of Bond either, but I DO know I would've thrown a fit if Famke Janssen wasn't on this list. Because she should be on ANY 'hottest women' list. Even if she's not in the movie it pertains to.

Well I claim innocence and lack of research, bucdaddy. I just wrote what PaddyDog did. Dammit.

My only changes would be to bump Fammke higher up the list (dead God, I love her) and to consider replacing Eva Green with someone who actually seems to have a personality. I'm with Jay on this one - she's objectively very attractive, but she just doesn't seem sexy to me at all. Then again, my (straight female) best friend quite literally drools over her, so maybe I'm utterly wrong.

As for theme tunes, no one has yet mentioned any of my favourites - "Goldeneye", "The World Is Not Enough" and "A View To A Kill". I'm also a fan of both the "Tomorrow Never Dies" ones and "You Know My Name", though not to the same extent as the first three.

And llp, I kinda like the new Keys/White song ("Another Way To Die") - it took a few listens to grow on me, but it's catchy enough and fits well with the film and particularly with the credit sequence. I don't think it's going to go down as one of the all-time greats, but equally it's not a Madonna-esque catastrophe, so on balance I'm happy enough.

Oh, and I forgot that you reminded me! My favorite contemporary theme is k.d. lang's "Surrender", the b-side, as it were, to "Tomorrow Never Dies" that ran over the end credits. Good stuff.

I did like "You Know My Name" though.

Where the hell is Judie Dench on this list?!?!