People mag's 100 most beautiful...

The magazine expanded its list from 50 to 100 last year for some reason as Julia Roberts and Halle Berry make the cut for the 11th time (yawn), George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez and Brad Pitt appear for the eighth time (gee, what an easy job! Just pick the same peeps every year unless they somehow got un-beautiful over the previous 12 months.) But I cannot quibble with Patrick Dempsey making the list for the third time in a row...I mean, c'mon! He really is McDreamy!
Drew Barrymore is on the cover which, I think, makes her THE most beautiful but I'm not sure. It's a terrific choice though. Ever since she appeared at the 2006 Golden Globe Awards in that dumpy green dress without a bra and with a few extra pounds on her, Drew has transformed herself back into a swan. She really does look better now than she ever has.
"It's a great time for Drew Barrymore," People magazine Assistant Managing Editor Jess Cagle tells CBS' Early Show. "It seemed to be her year. With each passing year, she is — I wrote it down — 32 years old now. She seems to get — she gets more beautiful every year. She's happy. She's in a great place. And she has a very deep connection with audiences because they've grown up with her."
Jess, who is an out man, says of Dempsey: "He seems to get sexier every year, you know. In his 40s now. And he — when you're named McDreamy, you pretty much have to be on the world's most beautiful list. He told us he's getting some gray hairs now. But they're coming in a little slower than they used to … but one of the great heads of hair of all time. That's another reason he's always on the list."

Some of the other names are pretty predictable: Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, Christina Aguilera, Oprah Winfrey (she usually makes it on her thin years) and Tyra Banks (who, ironically, is not having a thin year). But two names I'm really excited to see on the list: Oscar-winner Helen Mirren, 61, who is the oldest person in the issue and really is sexier than almost anyone else in it; and my "Dancing With the Stars" gal Laila Ali who is simply hot! hot! hot!