10 sexy sirens of the big screen

4. Kelly Preston, 42

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She became famous playing bad-girl blondes in bad ‘80s teen flicks like “Mischief” and “Secret Admirer” and hasn’t been taken seriously since. It’s similar to the way her husband, John Travolta, wasn’t taken seriously in 1993. It was a mistake with him then and it’s a mistake with her now. After a few surprising sweet girl roles in the 1990s (“Addicted to Love,” “For the Love of the Game”), Preston has, unfortunately, graduated to Mom roles: “The Cat in the Hat”; “What a Girl Wants”; “Sky High.” But like Stacy’s mom, she’s got it going on. Always has.

3. Catherine Zeta-Jones, 35

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Emerged on the Hollywood scene when Zorro and his not-so-gay blade defrocked her in “The Mask of Zorro,” and made an indelible impression somehow squeezing her bodacious behind under sensors in the horrible “Entrapment” and vamped it up as Velma in the Cell Block Tango of “Chicago,” but her sexiest role may be her bitchiest: Charlie Nicholson in “High Fidelity.” When she takes her top off heading upstairs, who wouldn’t follow? To quote George Clooney’s great line-reading in “Intolerable Cruelty”: You...fascinate me.

2. Famke Janssen, 39

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This is one tall drink of water. Like Diaz, she’s able to play the sexy innocent (see: Kamalah in “Star Trek: The Next Generation”), but is just as sexy, if not more so, when she gets aggressive (Xenia Onatopp in “Goldeneye”). But put her in leather? Like in “I Spy” and the X-Men movies? That’s when I surrender unconditionally. White flag time. Famke’s also surprisingly adept at ordinary women roles — like the underrated “Love & Sex” and Woody Allen’s “Celebrity,” where she is easily every male writer’s fantasy editor. And, hey, if the Batman series continues? Catwoman.

1. Angelina Jolie, 30

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She’s got the sexy movie poster thing down, doesn’t she? First the sweaty hot pants of “Lara Croft,” then the lips parted (in fear? in excitement?) in “Taking Lives,” and finally the coup-de-grace: the long black dress with the healthy slit up the side exposing (or not — depends on the market) a gun strapped mid-gam in “Mr. and Mrs. Smith.” What man wouldn’t beg to kiss his way up those legs? You get the feeling that Angelina wouldn’t mind the begging either. Might even toy with you a little first. That’s why she’s No. 1. Now if she’d only make some good movies.

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