TODAY'S BURNING QUESTION: WHEN DID WINNIE COOPER GET SO HOT?

'The Wonder Years' was a great trip down memory lane for anybody who cut their adolescent teeth in the 1960s. The show was an eerily accurate assessment of a kid on the road through adolescence without a good map. 'The Wonder Years' just happened to pick a familiar time and place for many of us.

The object of Kevin's affection throughout the series was Winnie Cooper. She was his little red-headed girl (in a Charlie Brownish kind of way) for Kevin. The Winnie Cooper role was played very well by a youngster named Danica McKellar during the show's five year run from 1988-93.

The first episode was a pivotal moment when Winnie shed her horn-rimmed glasses and captured Kevin's interest in a big way.

That was the beginning of a five year roller coaster romance for the two characters as they worked their respective ways through a minefield of teenage problems and complicated each other's lives along the way.

It was a funny, insightful and occasionally sad look at a tough part of the path toward full-fledged adulthood, and the young actors in The Wonder Years' were full value for their performances over the show's run.

When it ended, Kevin and Winnie fell off the planet in a show-biz sense. Fred Savage did more post-'Wonder Years' acting than the other young stars of the show, but all of them drifted away from the spotlight.

Danica McKellar went to UCLA and graduated as an honors mathematics major. She parlayed her math skills into two New York Times bestsellers ('Math Doesn't Suck' and 'Kiss My Math') that are geared toward an adolescent female target market.

In short, Winnie Cooper aka Danica McKellar is a math whiz. She has also grown up and, now at 35, she is a very hot babe. A bad made for TV sci-fi movie called 'Path of Destruction' was on the tube the other night. It was a hall of fame crappy

movie, but it had an over thirty Danica McKellar as its lead character, and therein lay the only reason to watch the movie.
The bottom line is that Winnie Cooper is no longer just an object of affection for a love-struck Kevin Arnold.

She is now a very attractive woman in her mid-30s and the line forms on the left for her large army of male admirers.