Posted on 02/27/2005 6:47:29 AM PST by Humblebum
Halle in tears again... for worst actress 14:00pm 27th February 2005 Halle Berry as Catwoman
Catwoman: Claws out for film flop Most Hollywood stars fail to appear at awards ceremonies if they haven't won, but actress Halle Berry surprised the showbiz world by turning-up in person to collect a gong for worst actress.
Berry was named worst actress of 2004 by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation for her performance in Catwoman and she showed up to accept her "Razzie" carrying the Oscar she won in 2002 for Monster's Ball.
"They can't take this away from me, it's got my name on it!" she quipped. A raucous crowd cheered her on as she gave a stirring recreation of her Academy Award acceptance speech, including tears.
She thanked everyone involved in "Catwoman," a film she said took her from the top of her profession to the bottom.
"I want to thank Warner Brothers for casting me in this piece of s***," she said as she dragged her agent on stage and warned him "next time read the script first."
It is rare for a Razzie winner to show up at the spoof awards held on the night before Oscars - but Berry did, saying her mother taught her that to be "a good winner you had to be a good loser first." She received a standing ovation.
Catwoman tied with Fahrenheit 9/11 by winning four Razzies - worst picture, worst directing, worst screenplay and worst performance by an actress for Berry and her "berry bad" work.
Bush bashing
John Wilson, founder of the nonprofit Golden Raspberry Award Foundation that gives out "Hollywood's least coveted trophies," said Moore's anti-Bush documentary allowed the foundation's nearly 700 members to do some Bush bashing of their own.
The president not only was named worst male actor in a leading role, he also won for being half of the year's worst screen couple when paired with either Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice or "My Pet Goat," the book he was reading to schoolchildren on the morning of September 11.
Footage of Bush continuing to read after being given first word of the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon was one of the key scenes in Moore's highly critical film. . Winners receive a golf ball-sized figure of a Raspberry atop a mangled Super 8 film reel that is spray-painted gold. It has an estimated street value of £3, although Wilson said costs were rising as Super 8 film reel cans are getting harder to find.
Racist!
Gutsy.
Oh, and nice rack.
I don't know why, for the life of me, anyone has to bring race into this. Especially not today. And everyone wonders why we still have segregation. If everyone just stopped talking about it, it would go away. It's just a crutch, IMHO.
Have to give these guys a huge atta boy for having the guts to speak the truth.
My respect for Miss Berry just went up a tremendous amount. She actually has a sense of humor?
You have an interesting handle!
In Swordfish, it took me twenty minutes to discover she even had a head.
Imagine my surprise.
She looks more Castillian Spanish, if anything...
Yeah... I admit, she just drifted up a notch in my estimation.
You GO girl!
lol
That's pretty funny she did this. Bringing the agent on stage is a hoot.
Yep. A real slap in the face to the white mother who single-handedly raised her.
Ya gotta admit that while the movie may be crap she still looks darn good.
She could be my kitty cat anytime
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