In Memoriam: Yvonne Craig

I'm interrupting the posting of the photo sessions from last weekend for this sad report.

One of the icons of my youth--one of the women I would have wanted to be--has passed on. Yvonne Craig was undoubtedly best known as Batgirl (Barbara Gordon) on the Batman TV series in the 1960s and for some also as Marta the green Orion girl in Star Trek's "Whom Gods Destroy" episode, but she had a long, thriving career before that. Unfortunately, her career did seem to stall out after playing the "Dominoed Dare-doll" as DC Comics called her character...probably because producers and directors feared the audience would always say, "Hey, it's Batgirl!"

She was 78 and the cause was cancer.

The Five Women We'd Most Love to Be

With Cote dePablo winning week 5 of the third round, here--in order--are the five women we'd most love to be:

Alicia Silverstone
Cote de Pablo
Raquel Welch
Charlize Theron
Stana Katic

Stand by for the new poll.

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 3, Week 5

Once again, rate each person in the poll to the right:

Sarah Michelle Gellar

Cote de Pablo

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 3, Week 4

Another close one, with Charlize Theron eking out a 3.87 rating.

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 3, Week 4

Once again, rate each person in the poll to the right (5 is best):

Jane Seymour

Charlize Theron

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 3, Week 3 Results

This week was actually a statistical tie ~ only .01 separated the two contestants. I debated several ways to break the tie (letting the round run another week, a run-off, etc.) and finally decided to declare the winner the one with the most "5" ratings:

Raquel Welch

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 3, Week 3

Once again, rate each person in the poll to the right (five is best).

Erin Gray

Raquel Welch

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 3, Week 2 Results

Alicia Silverstone ekes out a win with a rating of 4.46.

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 3, Week 2

Once again, rate each person in the poll to the right (5 is best).

Alicia Silverstone

Jennifer Connelly

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 3, Week 1 Results

In an upset almost as big as Mercer over Duke, Stana Katic (seeded 10) beat out Jennifer Aniston (seeded one), with a rating of 3.64:

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 3, Week 1

Round three will work like a classic tournament, the top-rated contender against the bottom-rated, and so on. Here are the rankings:

1. Jennifer Aniston
2. Alicia Silverstone
3. Erin Gray
4. Jane Seymour
5. Sarah Michelle Gellar
6. Cote de Pablo
7. Charlize Theron
8. Raquel Welch
9. Jennifer Connelly
10. Stana Katic

In this round, you will once again be asked to rate each woman from one to five (five being best), and the winner of each match-up will go on to the final round. Here's the first match:

Jennifer Aniston

Stana Katic

As usual, vote in the poll to the right.

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 2, Week 10 Results

I never cease to be amazed at how big an impact Erin Gray has had among CDs; she won this week with 66% of the vote:

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 2, Week 10

Once again, choose the woman you'd prefer to be, by voting in the poll to the right:

Catherine Zeta Jones

Erin Gray

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 2, Week 9 Results

This was another close one ~ 52% of you prefer Charlize Theron.

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 2, Week 9

As usual, choose the woman you'd prefer to be in the poll to the right:

Charlize Theron

Grace Kelly

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 2, Week 8 Results

It went back and forth for a while, but 54% of you prefer Raquel Welch

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 2, Week 8

Once again, choose the woman you'd prefer to be in the poll to the right:

Emma Watson

Raquel Welch

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 2, Week 7 Results

A near tie, but Stana Katic was preferred by 52% of you.

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 2, Week 7

Choose the woman you'd prefer to be in the poll to the right:

Stana Katic

Rita Hayworth

Women We'd Love to Be ~ Round 2, Week 6 Results

Sarah Michelle Gellar was preferred by 66% of you: