Friday 15 February 2013

Nicole Kidman, Halle Berry, Reese Witherspoon, Sandra Bullock Presenting at Oscars


Four former Best Actress winners will converge on stage at this year's Oscar telecast, the show's producers said Wednesday.
Halle Berry, Sandra Bullock, Nicole Kidman and Reese Witherspoon will present an award, although the show's producers were mum about whether or not they will take the stage together. If they do, it may mean a return to a format that was deployed and favorably received during the 2009 broadcast.
During that show, former winners of acting awards appeared on stage together to give short speeches praising each of the nominees. That was revived in a slightly modified form in the 2010 telecast, in which co-stars or celebrity friends of the various nominees were called on to pay tribute before the winner was announced.
Traditionally, the previous winner of an acting award reads out the nominees and hands out the statue without assistance.
Berry won the Oscar for her performance as a grieving widow in "Monster's Ball" (2001), Bullock for her work as a feisty housewife and football fan in "The Blind Side" (2009), Kidman for playing a depressive Virginia Woolf in "The Hours" (2002) and Witherspoon for channeling June Carter Cash in "Walk the Line" (2005).
Other previously announced Oscar presenters including Mark Wahlberg, Channing Tatum, Daniel Radcliffe and "Marvel's The Avengers" cast members Robert Downey Jr., Samuel L. Jackson, Chris Evans, Jeremy Renner and Mark Ruffalo.
The Oscars will be hosted by Seth MacFarlane and will air on Feb. 24.

Thursday 14 February 2013

Halle Berry: I love being in films... but my greatest role is being a mum - The Sun


Halle Berry: I love being in films... but my greatest role is being a mum

- Says Hollywood glamour girl on the joys of motherhood

Halle Berry
Ex-Bond girl ... Halle Berry still has looks to die for
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HALLE BERRY’S mantelpiece must be groaning under the weight of all her acting awards – 19 so far, with an Oscar, an Emmy and a Golden Globe all jostling for prime position.
But the Hollywood beauty has no glittering gong to mark the role she is proudest of — being a mother.
Halle, 46, says: “Being a mom puts things into perspective about what we take and share in life.
“It’s a matter of juggling and finding what comes natural.
“Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life.
“Career is important, but nothing really supersedes my role as a mother. That’s the most important thing I’m going to do in this life at this point.”
The former model and Bond girl came to motherhood relatively late.

Halle Berry & Nahla
My princess ... Halle Berry with daughter Nahla
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Until her daughter Nahla was born four years ago, Halle’s acting career had always come first with notable appearances in the X-Men films, Die Another Day, Swordfish, Catwoman and Monster’s Ball in 2001, for which she won her Best Actress Oscar.
“I was 41 when I had Nahla and I think I was right to have waited,” says Halle, whose latest film Cloud Atlas opens in cinemas a week on Friday.
“I don’t think I would have been as good a mother in my 20s or even in my 30s as I’m able to be now.
“It took me time to figure out so many things in my life — who I was, how to become happy — before I could reach the point where I could be the kind of mother I wanted to be.”
Nahla already shares her mum’s love of films.
Halle says: “I like Nahla to see movies rather than be watching a lot of TV.
“The last few years I’ve been watching a lot of children’s films with her and it’s opened me up to her world.
“It’s fascinating to be able to see life through the eyes of your child.
“It simplifies a lot. You don’t feel as stressed as you normally would dealing with all the problems that tend to accumulate in the adult world.”

Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez
Fiance ... Halle Berry and French actor Olivier Martinez
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She has certainly had her share of stressful problems in the adult world — ones which erupted into violence late last year.
Her fiance, French actor Olivier Martinez and her ex Gabriel Aubry, who is Nahla’s dad, exchanged punches outside her Los Angeles home in November.
Both men had to be treated in hospital for their injuries. Halle had wanted to move to France with Nahla, but ex model Aubry went to court to stop them. Then things descended into fisticuffs.
She and Aubry have since reached an amicable custody agreement.
Twice-divorced Halle reckons she has finally found happiness with Olivier, who once dated Kylie Minogue, following a series of “wrong choices”.
Her first marriage, to baseball player David Justice, lasted three years, while her second, to singer Eric Benét, ended after four. Her five-year relationship with Aubry ended in April 2010. Shortly after they split up she started dating Martinez, her co-star in the thriller Dark Tide.


Gabriel Aubry and Halle Berry
Former partners ... Gabriel Aubry and Halle Berry
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Halle reckons not having a father figure in her life has something to do with her past romantic failures. Her estranged dad Jerome left the family home in Cleveland, Ohio, after he and her mum Judith divorced when Halle was just four.
She says: “I think not having had a father when I was growing up affected me negatively because I didn’t have a good role model to follow.
“It’s hard to admit you’ve made the wrong choices and gone through a lot of grief because of that.
“But you learn from your mistakes. I see things much more clearly now. I’m very happy.”
She was also thrilled to be cast in Cloud Atlas alongside Tom Hanks, Jim Broadbent, Ben Whishaw and Susan Sarandon.
In one of the most challenging projects she has ever undertaken, Halle plays SIX different characters who are spiritually linked through time, including a Maori tribeswoman, a sexually-frustrated white Jewish wife and a MALE Asian doctor.

Halle Berry and David Justice
First hubby ... Halle Berry and David Justice
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“I never could have imagined being part of any film like this,” says Halle with a smile. “Playing a white Jewish woman was one thing, but playing an Asian man like Dr Ovid was something else.
“I loved it. Never in my life would I have thought anybody would hire me to be an Asian man.
“The film talks about the human soul and how an evil person can be transformed into a hero, in another body, after a single act of kindness. This film is something unique — I doubt if I’ll ever get the chance to be part of this kind of a project again.”
Making the epic reincarnation movie, an adaptation of British author David Mitchell’s best-seller, prompted Halle to look back on events and decisions which dramatically changed the course of her own life.
She says: “I believe you can experience very profound moments of change in life.
“I never would have become an actress if I hadn’t dropped out of high school.
“I was so driven to pursue my dreams that I made a decision to quit school at 17 so I could find my voice as an actress.”

Halle Berry and Tom Hanks
New film Cloud Atlas ... Halle Berry and Tom Hanks
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Yet it looked like Halle would have to pull out of Cloud Atlas when she broke her foot two days before the start of shooting.
She admits: “I thought they were going to give me my walking papers. But they threw out their initial schedule and gave up any hope of shooting in chronological order.”
Fortunately for Halle, kindhearted Tom Hanks decided to be her nursemaid on set.
She reveals: “Tom was a dream partner during the making of the film.

“Because of my broken foot, each day Tom would play nurse to me. He’d bring me coffee and soup and just stay with me during breaks in shooting because it was difficult for me to move around.”


Read more: http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/features/4794223/Hollywood-actress-and-glamour-girl-Halle-Berry-talks-to-The-Sun-about-the-joys-of-motherhood.html#ixzz2Ku4iFBvI

Halle and Olivier commissioned Alejandro Vigilante to create portraits of each other for Valentine’s Day


Halle Berry, Olivier Martinez check out Avant Gallery

 

Martinez and Berry
Martinez and Berry
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Halle Berry and Olivier Martinez stopped by Avant Gallery Miami Beach after dining at Martinez’s Villa Azur restaurant next door. There, they posed for pix with gallery owner Dmitry Prut and artist Alejandro Vigilante whose paintings the couple collects. Berry and Martinez then commissioned Vigilante to create portraits of each other as a mutual present for Valentine’s Day.
Sarah Jessica Parker posed for pictures Friday night at the Coral Gables Country Club where she, along with writer/producer/director David Frankel, actors Carla Gugino and Jeremy Piven, were feted after a Miami International Film Festival screening of 1995’s Miami Rhapsody.

You can check out Alejandro's Website here .


Here is one he has created of Halle last year




Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/11/3228971/halle-berry-olivier-martinez-check.html#storylink=cpy

Wednesday 13 February 2013

Halle Berry drops daughter off at school in plain gym clothes but picks her up wearing stylish fedora and ripped jeans


That's better mom! Halle Berry drops daughter off at school in plain gym clothes but picks her up wearing stylish fedora and ripped jeans

    Every little girl her age wants to show off their mother on the school run.
And when your parent is famous actress Halle Berry the stakes must be especially higher to look cool.
While it is not clear what four-year-old Nahla thought of the star’s outfit change on Tuesday, she certainly seemed to be very opinionated about something.
Dressed down: Halle Berry took her daughter Nahla to school wearing gym clothes on Tuesday
Dressed down: Halle Berry took her daughter Nahla to school wearing gym clothes on Tuesday
Halle, 46, donned a trendy outfit as she collected her child from classes in Studio City, California.
She arrived at the gates wearing ripped jeans with a white top and cardigan, adding a printed scarf and stylish fedora hat to stay warm.
The star teamed with aviator sunglasses and donned black Chloe boots with gold buckles and studs on.
Outfit change: But she picked her up looking stylish in the afternoon
Outfit change: But she picked her up looking stylish in the afternoon
Cool get-up: Halle wore a white top with a scarf, black cardigan and fedora hat
Cool get-up: Halle wore a white top with a scarf, black cardigan and fedora hat
Youthful clothing: She teamed it with ripped jeans and Chloe studded boots as she walked through the Studio City area
Youthful clothing: She teamed it with ripped jeans and Chloe studded boots as she walked through the Studio City area
She held her little girl’s hand as they walked back to their car and carried her education supplies in the spare hand.
Nahla appeared to be questionable about her new choice of clothing for the afternoon as she pulled a number of quirky facial expressions.
Wearing a pair of blue denim trousers and a stripy pink top all day, Nahla had been dropped off that morning by her mother who was wearing a gym kit.
Thoughts on the ensemble? Nahla was very expressive with her face as she held her mother's hand and donned a stripy pink top
Thoughts on the ensemble? Nahla was very expressive with her face as she held her mother's hand and donned a stripy pink top
Thoughts on the ensemble? Nahla was very expressive with her face as she held her mother's hand and donned a stripy pink top
Halle sported a relaxed white cap and three-quarter-length black trousers with a blue top under her hooded top.
A tired Nahla – who is the child of model Gabriel Aubry – didn’t seem as lively as she went to the learning institute.
It has been reported that Halle and her fiancé Olivier Martinez will be getting each other special portraits from one of their favourite artists, Alejandro Vigilante, for Valentine's Day on Thursday.
School run: Earlier Halle has worn three-quarter length leggings with a casual cap
School run: Earlier Halle has worn three-quarter length leggings with a casual cap


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2277827/Halle-Berry-drops-daughter-school-plain-gym-clothes-picks-wearing-stylish-fedora-ripped-jeans.html#ixzz2KmEMVqVH
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