Christopher Lee

Mr. Lee has long been one of Our Most Versatile Cool Bad Guys. Evil Wizard? Yup. Vampire? Sure, a couple times. Mastermind of Evil Plan to Rule the Universe? You betcha. But until recently The Goddesses hadn't seen him in anything where he was, you know, Hot. But oh, Bless You, AMC, for your month-long James Bond Marathon. For you have revealed to us the beauty that is a young Christopher Lee, as Francisco Scaramanga... The Man With the Golden Gun.

Scaramanga isn't the scariest of the Bond villains, and his dismissal of basic scientific knowledge proves a key flaw. Also, his attachment to his diminutive valet Nick Nack (played, naturally, by Herve Villechaize - it was, after all, the seventies) is a touch, shall we say, creepy. But in true Villainous Fashion, Mr. Scaramanga maintains an island retreat where he can practice shooting wax models of the hero with his Golden Gun. (Yeah. I know. And I'm not even going to talk about his extraneous nipple, which ends up being a plot point.) In true Bond fashion, he likes the ladies, although his argument for having them wear only bikinis is practical - no place to hide a weapon.

Obviously, as a Bond Villain, he meets a Rather Sticky End (see above, re: scientific knowledge). But he lights up the screen with Delightful Villainy for much of the movie. And with over 100 movies to his credit before Golden Gun, we'll be all set for a Christopher-Lee-A-Thon for several weeks at the Hot Bad Hideout. Mmmm. Tasty.