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Rosie the Riveter has given way to Sally the Sniveler. During World War II, young Rose Will Monroe was the face of American women in adversity: strong, supportive, and resolute against the enemy forces that threatened our existence. Tens of thousands like Rosie rolled up their sleeves, gritted their teeth, and flexed their muscles in factories and shipyards and arsenals across the country. They made rockets and rifles and bombs and boats. They painted and drilled and welded. When they got home to their kids, they cooked and cleaned and collapsed in bed after praying for their husbands and brothers...

Halle slammed women who have plastic surgery - calling anyone who goes under the knife "insane".

FIRST PICTURE OF CATWOMAN!! Source: TIME magazine Monday, September 29, 2003 The new issue of TIME magazine has a first look at Halle Berry in her Catwoman costume. Here's the picture followed by the article. Thanks to 'Hmmm...' for the heads up. The cat is finally out of the bag. HALLE BERRY slinks into a strapping new ensemble this week when filming starts in Vancouver for Catwoman. The Oscar-winning actress plays the Felonious Feline (see also: Princess of Plunder, Mistress of Malevolence) from the Batman series, a role made famous by Eartha Kitt in the '60s TV show and...

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...

The performance in Lie Another Day was flawless. Bill Clinton effortlessly lied his way through a speech criticizing the Democrats for failing to get out their message in the recent campaign without him suffering from the least bit of self-conscious irony that HE was the one acting as the chief Democrat cheerleader. Then when Clinton castigated Democrats for standing by and not answering criticism of Tom Daschle while he was one of those standing by, it was a delicious hypocrisy that… OOPS! You say the movie I'm supposed to be reviewing is not Lie Another Day but Die Another...

Posted: November 25, 2002 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2002 WorldNetDaily.com Congratulations to the New York Times in bringing to light the unspeakable suffering of yet another horribly oppressed victim group: Cover Girls of Color. In the lead story of the business section on Nov. 18, journalism's grumpy Gray Lady agonizes over the plight of the supremely glamorous, Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry who, in conjunction with her starring role in the new James Bond film, "Die Another Day," became "only the fifth black to appear on the cover of Cosmopolitan since the magazine began using cover photographs in 1964, and the...

While many observers, white and black alike, hailed the double-Oscar win of Denzel Washington and Halle Berry as a sign or racial progress, the writer argues that the Oscars were evidence that Academy members are casting their votes based on the color of a performer's skin, rather than the character of his performanmce. The article also subjects the historical assumptions of Halle Berry's celebrated acceptance speech to critical scrutiny, and finds them wanting.

OSCARS, STREETS, HOOPS AND PING-PONG BALLS (Some thoughts on discrimination)March 29, 2002 I am not a big movie fan. I have not been in a theatre in over a year, and I have not watched a movie since Labor Day. Hence, while the rest of the world was watching the Oscars I was watching a Discovery Channel documentary on Marine boot camp at Parris Island. Earlier that day, I watched Kansas beat Oregon the NCAA basketball tournament. In fact, I am so cinematically clueless that I had not even heard of the movie for which Halle Berry was awarded...

Halle Berry has learned the hard way that even an Oscar can't insulate against racism. New York's Daily News reports that a hacker broke into the Monster's Ball star's Web site (www.hallewood.com), defaced her picture with a moustache and beard, made a reference to rival Nicole Kidman and left a reference to the racist Ku Klux Klan. Berry's Web master took down the site and added additional security measures to prevent further hacking. Yesterday, the site appeared to be back up and running as normal. For her part, Berry was unconcerned about the cyber attack. "It sounds very juvenile and...

Let me begin by saying that I feel personally oppressed and profoundly insulted by the Academy's refusal to bestow this year's Best Actress Oscar on Dame Judy Dench. It was a painful revelation of Hollywood's entrenched bigotry against aging white women, especially those of us whose personal attractiveness (such, alas, as it ever was) is limited to the desperate second-best of an Inner Beauty, rather than the more visible form of that particular gift, which God doles out so very sparingly, according to His own inscrutable plan. To be sure, in Dame Judy's case, Inner Beauty is enhanced by scads...

March 25, 2002 | After the reality check of Sept. 11 and its sobering aftermath, many people looked at the glitterati of Hollywood and said, "Can you explain why the f*** any of us ever thought YOU were so important?" Well, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences seems to have mulled this question over, and this year it gave us the We're Justifying Our Existence Oscars. I never questioned the Oscars before, but this year just the fact of them made me uneasy. Year round, we as a nation are already supposed to live vicariously through this rather...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Halle Berry stole the show at Sunday's Oscars (news - web sites), becoming the first black woman to win a best actress Academy Award and accepting it with a weeping, emotion-filled speech that bought tears to the eyes of her worldwide audience. Berry, 33, a rising star but hardly a household name, won for her role as a woman overtaken by rage and frustration in the racially charged movie "Monster's Ball" that is considered her best performance in a 10-year career. Moments later she was joined in the record books by Denzel Washington as they became...