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Diamond of Hollywood
5 December 2009 4:05 PM, PST | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »
Precious, the story of an obese and abused black teenager, is the year's most reviled as well as praised film in America. But director Lee Daniels is used to trouble, he tells Gaby Wood. He grew up gay on the streets of Philadelphia, after all, and is drawn to the most disturbing truths. That'll be why he's heading to America's Deep South for his next film…
For the past month, one particular actress has filled American movie screens and visited American minds. She is obese and very dark-skinned, and the character she plays – a 16-year-old illiterate girl from Harlem who is abused by her mother and pregnant by her father for the second time – has been dealt one of the worst hands society has to offer. Yet what's most often said about Gabourey Sidibe – in this Aniston-adoring, holiday-spirited culture – is none of those things. It's that she is completely wonderful, »
- Gaby Wood
Halle Berry had an abusive and alcoholic father
5 December 2009 4:35 AM, PST | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
London, Dec 5 (Ians) Oscar winner Halle Berry recently revealed that her father was an alcoholic and his violent acts left an indelible mark on her life.
The actress was among those being honoured at the Hollywood Reporter’s Women in Entertainment and she chose to bring up a painful part of her past as she accepted her latest accolade, reported contactmusic.com.
“My father was a very abusive, very violent alcoholic and he left an indelible scar on my life, on my childhood,” said Berry.
“When a young girl watches her mother being beaten and kicked down the steps and stabbed and punched in the face, not only do you feel a sense of fear but you too feel a sense of worthlessness,” she added. »
- realbollywood
Berry Blasts Violent Dad, Thanks Teacher At Gala
4 December 2009 5:31 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Oscar winner Halle Berry ripped into her father at the Hollywood Reporter's Women in Entertainment breakfast in Los Angeles on Friday, revealing his violent acts left an "indelible" mark on her life.
The actress was among those being honoured at the early-morning gala and she chose to bring up a painful part of her past as she accepted her latest accolade.
Taking to the podium at the Beverly Hills event, the Monster's Ball star said, "My father was a very abusive, very violent alcoholic and he left an indelible scar on my life, on my childhood.
"When a young girl watches her mother be beaten and kicked down the steps and stabbed and punched in the face, not only do you feel a sense of fear but you too feel a sense of worthlessness."
Berry paid tribute to a former teacher, who helped her overcome her violent upbringing: "She saw in me the need to feel valued and to feel loved and to feel I was worth it."
Hilary Swank and Eva Longoria-Parker were also among those named to the Power 100 Women in Entertainment at the gala. »
Halle, Hilary and Eva Do Breakfast for 'Power 100'
4 December 2009 3:37 PM, PST | TheInsider.com | See recent The Insider news »
Halle Berry, Hilary Swank and Eva Longoria Parker, along with "The Insider"'s own Executive Producer Linda Bell Blue, celebrated being named to the Hollywood Reporter's Power 100 Women in Entertainment list on Friday in Beverly Hills. "It's nice to see women come together for other women," Swank told "The Insider" on the red carpet. For her part, Berry said, "You never really know the impact you have on lives or even on your industry, so when someone decides to say, you know, you're doing well, it feels really good." CBS Television Distribution Creative Affairs & Development President Terry Wood was also named to the list, and said, "To end up on a list with all these women I admire is a good feeling." Bell Blue opened up about The Mentor program she helped to launch in partnership with Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Greater Los Angeles, saying, "I have a mentee, »
- TheInsider
Oprah Winfrey demoted to No. 2 on Women in Entertainment: Power 100 list
4 December 2009 3:12 PM, PST | Zap2It - The Dish Rag | See recent Zap2It - The Dish Rag news »
Oprah Winfrey's quest for world domination has stalled...
The Hollywood Reporter has named Sony Pictures Entertainment co-chair Amy Pascal and Disney Media Networks co-chair Anne Sweeney the most powerful women in entertainment.
Oprah Winfrey was bumped to No. 2, down from the top spot on last year's list. We're told she has vowed Amy Pascal and Anne Sweeney will never work in this town again! Kidding, kidding.
The rest of the Top 10 includes: (No. 3) Nancy Tellem, CBS Network Television Entertainment group president; (No. 4) Bonnie Hammer, president of NBC Universal; (No. 5) Donna Langley, co-chair Universal Pictures;(No. 6) Stacey Snider, co-chairman and CEO, DreamWorks; (No. 7) Dana Walden, chairman 20th Century Fox Television; (No. 8) Nina Tassler, president, CBS Entertainment; (No. 9) Angela Bromstad, president Primetime Entertainment NBC; (No. 10) Sue Kroll, president of marketing at Warner Bros.
In-front-of-the-camera talent making the list are Ellen DeGeneres (No. 27), Meryl Streep (No. 48) and Tina Fey (No. 51). Also at »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Halle, Hilary, and Eva Celebrate Their Fellow Women
4 December 2009 2:00 PM, PST | Popsugar.com | See recent Popsugar news »
The stars were up early for the Hollywood Reporter's annual Women in Entertainment breakfast this morning in La. Both Halle Berry and Eva Longoria were back in town after traveling to opposite corners of the country for their various philanthropic causes. Halle was in NYC to raise money for abused women while Eva traveled to Miami to entertain children with cancer. Hilary Swank, meanwhile, just traveled to California after celebrating her Million Dollar Baby director Clint Eastwood at an event back East. The actresses were able to give something back during their get-together, announcing a new plan to spearhead a new mentoring program with Big Brothers Big Sisters. View 20 Photos › More photos from the Hollywood Reporter Breakfast so read more. View 20 Photos › »
- PopSugar
The Naughts: The Actress of the '00s
4 December 2009 10:17 AM, PST | ifc.com | See recent IFC news »
If time is an avenger, then the Naughts have had it both ways with Nicole Kidman. In the span of a decade, Kidman was transformed from arm candy into an artist -- the rare movie star who made genuinely interesting choices -- eclipsing her ex-husband, Tom Cruise, who filed for divorce in 2000, with an Oscar win and the embrace, finally, of her peers on her own terms.
However, as the '00s limp to a close, Kidman seems to be succumbing to a personal vendetta against time: by manipulating her face into a mask -- a waxworks ideal of "Nicole Kidman" -- rather than continuing to deploy it as a functional instrument, an artist's tool, Kidman is taking perhaps the most surprising risk of her career: she has chosen to age into glacial iconicity. In this, she exemplifies a decade that treated actresses with ambivalence, waving all the flags of »
- Michelle Orange
Spot Check: Is Halle Berry's Fang Bangin'? (Photos)
2 December 2009 12:46 PM, PST | Celebuzz.com | See recent Celebuzz news »
Halle Berry recently stepped out in this little fanged-smiley number that I find confounding, fashion-wise. Should we love or hate this? Let's do a spot check and break it all down.For one, that "Friendly Vampire" smiley thing seems a little too happy... like freakishly happy, as if he just took a Twilight-sized bite out of Kristen Stewart and she tasted like caramel. Also there's the small issue of that loincloth thing she has draped around her waist (or perhaps there was a mix up on laundry day and she mistakenly grabbed her boyfriend's cut-off denim shorts). Either way, it's a... »
- Celebuzz
In Pictures: 'Gabriel Aubry Shops in Los Angeles'
1 December 2009 2:59 PM, PST | Monsters and Critics | See recent Monsters and Critics news »
Halle Berry's boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, out shopping in Los Angeles, CA on November 29, 2009. Copyright by Fame Pictures, Inc - Santa Monica. Halle Berry's boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, out shopping in Los Angeles, CA on November 29, 2009. Copyright by Fame Pictures, Inc - Santa Monica. Halle Berry's boyfriend, Gabriel Aubry, out shopping in Los Angeles, CA on November 29, 2009. Copyright by Fame Pictures, Inc - Santa Monica. »
- James Wray
Lisa Loeb Welcomes Baby Girl
1 December 2009 12:06 PM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
Singer/songwriter Lisa Loeb and her husband Roey Hershkovitz welcomed their first child last weekend.
People magazine reports Lyla Rose Loeb Hershkovitz was born Sunday morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Loeb, 41, and Hershkovitz, 31, first announced they were expecting in September.
The Grammy nominee and "The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien" music supervisor met in 2006 and married last January.
Celebrity BabiesBeach Bums
Surfer dude Matthew McConaughey totes son Levi during a sandy walk in Malibu. »
Top 10 flops of the 00's
30 November 2009 | Cineman.ch/en | See recent Cineman.ch/en news »
With the decade coming to a close at the end of the year, it's time to take stock. Here is a list of the biggest financial flops of 2000's first decade. #10: 2008's "The Spirit". With a price tag of $60 million, graphic novelist Frank Miller's movie took in barely a third of that, despite a fabulous cast that included Eva Mendes, Scarlett Johansson and Spain's Paz Vega. #9: The ambitious but too-pointed 1970¹s B-movie homage "Grindhouse". The movie made only $25 million but cost $67 million, which tainted maker Quentin Tarantino a loser in 2007. Meanwhile, America's enfant terrible has redeemed himself with "Inglourious Basterds". #9: The remake of the 1970's classic, "Rollerball", released in 2002. $70 million price tag, $19 million in sales. The failure seems to have tanked the career of formerly success director John McTiernan, who later got 4 months for lying to the FBI in the Anthony Pellicano affair. #7: "The Invasion »
- Constantin Xenakis (Cineman)
Eddie Murphy's "Pluto Nash" Tops the List of Movie Flops of the Decade! See Complete Top 10 and Weep!
28 November 2009 8:27 AM, PST | Manny the Movie Guy | See recent Manny the Movie Guy news »
Eddie Murphy's "The Adventure of Pluto Nash" is the No. 1 flop of the decade according to The Hollywood Reporter. Big budgets, big stars with big egos, all clash to give us the biggest flops of the past ten years.
"Pluto Nash" was made for $100 million and only grossed $4.4 million, even out-flopping John Travolta's Scientology-homage "Battlefield Earth."
But Murphy and Travolta are not the only ones on the list. Nicole Kidman, Will Ferrell, Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, and Halle Berry also made the cut. Even Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez were not safe!
What other films made it to the Top 10? Here's the complete list of the Top 10 Flops of the Decade, The Biggest Turkeys:
1. The Adventures Of Pluto Nash
* Release date: August 6, 2002
* Estimated cost: $100 million
* Domestic gross: $4.4 million
* Release date: May 12, 2000
* Estimated cost: $75 million
* Domestic gross: $21 million
* Release »
- Manny
Murphy's Nash Tops 21st Century Film Flops File
27 November 2009 5:26 PM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Eddie Murphy movie The Adventures Of Pluto Nash has topped a new industry poll of the film flops of the new century.
The 2002 film, which cost $100 million (£62.5 million) to make and recouped less than 10 per cent at the box office, edged out John Travolta's critically-panned Battlefield Earth in the new Hollywood Reporter list of shame.
Also making the top 10 flops are Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez's Grindhouse, Catwoman starring Halle Berry, Gigli and summer film Land of the Lost. »
Jennifer Lopez's ex-hubby threatens to release honeymoon video!
27 November 2009 11:29 AM, PST | Zap2It - The Dish Rag | See recent Zap2It - The Dish Rag news »
Jennifer Lopez is having a really bad week. First, the accidental American Music Awards stage spill.
Now, private honeymoon videos to be released by her ex-husband?
Jennifer's ex, Ojani Noa, has promised to make intimate home videos available to the court next week.
The videos reportedly contain images of J. Lo on a motorcycle without pants and in a heated argument with her mother. There is also some honeymoon footage but no explicit sex.
No sex? So what's the big deal? Frankly, J. Lo's career could probably use a juicy sex tape.
According to Radaronline.com, J. Lo filed a $10 million lawsuit against Noa and wants a permanent court order barring her ex from making these videos public.
Her Lavely & Singer legal team has already won court battles against Noa and contend that he is prohibited from talking about her and making the videos public.
A temporary court order is »
- editorial@zap2it.com
Berry Selling Hollywood Hills Hideaway
26 November 2009 8:06 AM, PST | WENN | See recent WENN news »
Halle Berry is doubling up in the property market, selling off the Hollywood hideaway she bought in 2001 for more than twice what she paid for it.
The actress has put her Benedict Canyon Drive property up for sale at $5 million (£3.1 million), according to internet reports.
She paid $2.2 million (£1.4 million) for the Beverly Hills address eight years ago, just before she wed singer Eric Benet.
According to RealEstalker.com, the property features two bedrooms, two bathrooms, landscaped gardens and stone spa.
The home also comes with vaulted heavy wood-beamed ceilings, wood floors, fireplaces, a dramatic staircase and a gourmet cook's kitchen. »
Shakira finds new passion for golf
25 November 2009 11:10 PM, PST | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
London, Nov 26 (Ians) Colombian pop star Shakira seems to be following Halle Berry and Celine Dion’s footsteps — the singer is the latest celebrity to get hooked to golf.
‘I’m really bad at sports, believe it or not. If you throw a ball at me it will probably break my face because I have no reflexes whatsoever. But, in golf, you just need concentration, of which I have plenty and a hip swing,’ contactmusic.com quoted her as saying.
Fellow Latino George Lopez gave the singer a golfing edge when he presented her with a customised putter. »
- realbollywood
Halle Berry doesn’t care about make-up
25 November 2009 2:50 AM, PST | RealBollywood.com | See recent RealBollywood news »
London, Nov 25 (Ians) Oscar winner Halle Berry says she is more concerned about taking care of her skin rather than dabbing make-up for her public appearances.
‘I’m not one of those people who opts for plastic surgery, so my philosophy is to take care of what you have. I’m really serious about my skin-care regimen at night. I never ever go to bed or even nap with make-up on,’ femalefirst.co.uk quoted Berry as saying.
The 43-year-old says she doesn’t care much about her appearance.
‘I’m a fanatic about skin care, but when it comes to make-up, I’m not. Some days I’ll. »
- realbollywood
Katherine Heigl Celebrates Daughter's 1st B-Day
23 November 2009 11:20 AM, PST | Extra | See recent Extra news »
Katherine Heigl's adopted daughter Naleigh turns 1 Monday.
The mother/daughter duo attended Heigl's sister's baby shower Sunday night in Los Angeles.
Heigl celebrates her 31st birthday Tuesday. The "Grey's Anatomy" star and her husband, Josh Kelley, adopted Naleigh from Korea last September.
Celebrity TotsFowl Fun
Tom Brady and his little man John feed the birds at the Famous Granville Market in Vancouver.
Jet-Setting Baby
Bronx Mowgli travels in style! The baby was snapped »
Precious and Painful
23 November 2009 10:29 AM, PST | Huffington Post | See recent Huffington Post news »
In the films of Lee Daniels, horror is expressed through a claustrophobic Black pain that Hollywood finds absolutely compelling. In Precious, the fifth film that Daniels has either produced or directed, he returns to the formula that won him acclaim and won Halle Berry an Oscar for her role in Monster's Ball -- poor Black women are pathetic, sick and incapable of caring for themselves or their children. Not so much buzz came to Daniels for his second, third and fourth films. The third, "Shadow Boxer," was also an odious tale of death and quasi-incest, and rated high on the gag-with-a-spoon meter but it involved a beyond middle-aged White woman played by Helen Mirren. So now, even after declaring to one reporter that he is no longer going to make movies for "Black people" (as if Monster's Ball was for us!),... »
- Esther Iverem
Halle Berry: 'I'm proud of Rihanna'
23 November 2009 2:14 AM, PST | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »
Halle Berry has revealed that she is "proud" of Rihanna for ending her relationship with Chris Brown after he assaulted her earlier this year. The Oscar-winning actress, who has 19-month-old daughter Nahla with boyfriend Gabriel Aubry, recently said that she used to be attracted to abusive men because she grew up witnessing her father attack her mother. Berry is quoted by Perez Hilton (more) »
- By Rebecca Davies
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