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Halle Berry says she thinks she's 'ugly'
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Posted on 04/19/2003 9:01:58 PM PDT by Pokey78

Halle Berry solidified her place as one of the world's sexiest women with her role as Bond girl Jinx in "Die Another Day."

But the Oscar-winning actress (Monster's Ball) says she still doesn't see herself as a beautiful star.

"To be totally honest, most of the time I think I'm ugly," she told the German magazine Journal fur die Frau. "I see myself without makeup every morning and that's why I don't have illusions anymore. I certainly don't feel like a big star."

Berry added that being black still hinders her progress in Hollywood.

"For many film studios and directors skin color remains a problem. They don't believe that the audience will accept a black actor in the main role. These narrow-minded people underestimate the public and prevent advancement in the industry."

Berry's next film will be "X-2," the sequel to "X-Men" slated for a May 2 release.


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To: Windcatcher
Have you ever seen E! documentaries? Hardly anyone comes out of hollywood normal.
81 posted on 04/19/2003 9:45:35 PM PDT by cyborg
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To: Pokey78
Regardless of whether she's ugly, she certainly *doesn't* think she is.

BTW, why isn't this in Breaking News?
82 posted on 04/19/2003 9:46:42 PM PDT by Sloth ("I feel like I'm taking crazy pills!" -- Jacobim Mugatu, 'Zoolander')
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To: sonofron
i think the law was if you were 1/64 black you were considered a negro.

Yes, I think that was the law, in fact about 15 years ago a woman that was I think 1/64 black in Lousiana tried to change the race on her birth certificate from black to white and she was not allowed to based on the law.

83 posted on 04/19/2003 9:46:52 PM PDT by LWalk18
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To: I_Love_My_Husband
it's even more obvious in that pic. she may have the same syndrome that michael jackson has.
84 posted on 04/19/2003 9:47:08 PM PDT by sonofron
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To: Pokey78
The Ivory Tower mentality of liberalism.... I think I'm ugly too but beauty is only skin deep.... Peopele who have nothing of value spiritually usually end up feeling just the way she describes herself. Low self esteme. And the part about being black as hiderance in Hollywood is pure crap being the only 12-14% of the population is black in America it would seem she gets her fair share. The beautiful part is really sad for if she were white or hispanic I wouldn't look twice except that her blackness fits her physical appearance, not that's naughty not nice:)
85 posted on 04/19/2003 9:47:33 PM PDT by Jumper (All Hale)
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To: cyborg
woo hoo reparations for everyone!

I agree...
Everyone turn to your left and give your neighbor $5.
Call it even.
And get on to other business.

86 posted on 04/19/2003 9:47:37 PM PDT by eddie willers
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To: LWalk18
"...since under Jim Crow...[blah, blah, blah]"

But we don't live under Jim Crow laws anymore.

87 posted on 04/19/2003 9:48:53 PM PDT by FreedomCalls (It's the "Statue of Liberty" not the "Statue of Security.")
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Most of them have the decency to wait for the marriage to go south first..

88 posted on 04/19/2003 9:51:39 PM PDT by Jhoffa_ (It's called "adoption" Perhaps you've heard of it?)
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To: LWalk18
That definately would not happen today. Although I went to the hospital, the nurse insisted I had to put a race down. She put down black then she put down white, and got quite testy with me when I said my racial class is none of her small statured business.
89 posted on 04/19/2003 9:52:28 PM PDT by cyborg
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To: FreedomCalls
But we don't live under Jim Crow laws anymore.

No we don't but most people would consider Halle to be black. I didn't even know she was mixed until I read it somewhere, her looks are well within what black people look like in this country. If you put her in my stepmother's family she would be the darkest member, and they are all black and consider themselves to be nothing else.

90 posted on 04/19/2003 9:53:56 PM PDT by LWalk18
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To: FreedomCalls
THANK YOU!!!! You said it. I tell many of my american friends this and it usually falls on deaf ears. I think some people WANT jim crow laws back.
91 posted on 04/19/2003 9:54:39 PM PDT by cyborg
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To: Pokey78
Well, maybe not ugly, but not as pretty as Vanessa.


92 posted on 04/19/2003 9:59:50 PM PDT by John Lenin (Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy,)
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To: LWalk18
Americans who choose to hyphenate themselves dont get it .

93 posted on 04/19/2003 10:00:22 PM PDT by Ben Bolt
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To: cyborg
"Then everyone is black... woo hoo reparations for everyone! Oh wait... I'm exempt... all my relatives are immigrants."

what? are you responding to something i said?
94 posted on 04/19/2003 10:00:53 PM PDT by sonofron
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To: sonofron
#75 I believe... I don't know at this time of night. It was something you said in another post.
95 posted on 04/19/2003 10:02:32 PM PDT by cyborg
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To: Jhoffa_
Translation: "Notice Me! Notice Me! Tell me how pretty I am! Write me letters and console me!" PRECISELY.
97 posted on 04/19/2003 10:03:18 PM PDT by StarFan
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To: StarFan
People grow weary of such behavior after a while don't you think?
98 posted on 04/19/2003 10:04:41 PM PDT by cyborg
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To: Squantos
I dunno but she's sure purdy in that orange bikini !

well, i guess the bikini's okay... however...

99 posted on 04/19/2003 10:09:35 PM PDT by glock rocks ( pray for our men and women in harms way -- God bless America)
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To: cyborg
oh, not to be knitpicky, but most americans who designate their race as white are not 1/65th negroid. but yes, reparations get into a sticky business as to who would actually be reparated. Question: are they going to demand payment from the africans that went into the interior and captured them and sold them to the europeans and made profits off of them? why don't they try to end slavery which is still practiced in africa in some places?
100 posted on 04/19/2003 10:09:57 PM PDT by sonofron
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