Wonder Woman's Superhero Comeback

Though Lynda Carter does look older today than she did 25 years ago on Wonder Woman, she remains quite a celestial goddess over the age of 50. With starring roles in Sky High and the remake of The Dukes of Hazzard, opening within a week of each other, she's even still pulling off superhuman Hollywood feats. Though she's been mostly out of circulation for years, her roles in both films were specially designed for her since she remains, all these years later, the ultimate icon of female empowerment.

In Sky High, Carter plays Principal Powers, the overlord of kindness to a high school for kids with special talents. Her character is actually a comet who transforms into human form to discipline the kids. For director Mike Mitchell, who idolized Carter's Wonder Woman during his formative years, there was only one choice for the role. And when he got to meet her, Mitchell was impressed by the beauty she still possesses. "She looks really good," he says. "She's really hot."

Dukes director Jay Chandrasekhar, for whom Carter made a cameo in his spoof, Super Troopers, cooked up the part of a Duke family friend who ends up attracting the affections of Boss Hogg. In the first draft of the script, the role was a Dolly Parton type, but Chandrasekhar changed it to a beautiful 50-something woman just so Carter could play it. "You could have said 40-something," Carter says she retorted before jumping at the chance.