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.
... as, apparently, Ms. Berry is either too illiterate or too uncaring to take care of such trivial, mundane little matters herself.
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
It's called playing along with the joke. Notice it did not read "former" agent.
Jeez people, lighten up!
;-)
Can Condi wear her hair like that the next time she meets with foreign leaders? Or would that be too "unprofessional"?
;-)
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Some people I think are either physically or chemically unable to 'lighten up'. ;~D
Can Condi wear her hair like that the next time she meets with foreign leaders? Or would that be too "unprofessional"?
;-) post # 41
I'm not so sure how genuinely he feels for his father.
One of the things the press never reported was a crack he made about his father, and goats, it was a nasty referance to him being a sheep herder.
I don't know if you know this, but she is half deaf, with no hearing in one ear.
I'm not sure why, but supposedly it has affected the way she talks sometimes.
Let me file that under, "doesn't freakin' matter". In X-Men, she has an African accent in most of her scenes, and an American accent in others. According to the director, she simply forgot to do it in pickups.
In X-Men 2, she intentionally decided not to do the accent at all.
That ain;t a handicap, it's laxiness. She never wanted to do those films, therefore she didn;t care about her performance. Period.
Why isn't she happy? She gets paid tons of money just for looking good, something God simply blessed her with.
Funny, in a couple of interviews, I saw her trying to talk up a storm spinoff movie.
Ironically, it looks like her idea went the other way, with a probably wolverine spin off.
Regarding the accent, the director was there, he should have simply either dropped it, or had her do it the whole movie through. He is paid to direct, Singer isn't exactly new, and Berry isn't known for being a pain.
She has already stated enthusiasm for doing another x-men movie.
I'll find the link if you want me to, but suffice it to say the fan base was mightily pissed off at the time.
I thought Cosby also showed up to collect an award. (I think it was either for Leonard Pt 6 or Ghost Dad.) Or did he just demand to receive it?
Drew Barrymore went up in my estimation when she reportedly said "If I ever refer to acting as "my craft" somebody please shoot me."
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