HALLE BERRY: DOES WINNING A AWARD REALLY CHANGE EVERYTHING?
Halle Berry treasures the Golden Globe and other awards she has amassed during her career but, she says, none of them has helped her professionally.
“It is what it is,” she said during a recent visit to the Hollywood Foreign Press offices in West Hollywood. ” It’s a wonderful honor and when you first win it, you think, ‘Oh, I’m going to get all the best scripts sent to my house now, but that just really doesn’t happen. It’s a big myth.
“If you sit around waiting for someone to drop a good script at your door, you may wait yourself right out of your career. It took me a while to learn but you want to have the kind of career you dream of you have to start producing your own projects and telling your own stories.”
Halle, who won her Golden Globe in 2000 for her role in the made-for-television film Introducing Dorothy Dandrige, has done just that and has produced her latest film, Frankie and Alice, in which she plays a young woman struggling with multiple personality disorder.
Read More »LONDON PROTESTERS ADD EXCITEMENT TO JACK BLACK INTERVIEW
Golden Globe nominated actor Jack Black‘s meeting with Hollywood Foreign Press members in London was interrupted by a protest march outside the Dorchester Hotel.
Black and members watched from the hotel windows as the demonstrators marched past banging drums, singing and protesting at job and environmental cuts.
“Gee, there’s a lot of excitement out there,” said Black, who was at the hotel to talk about his latest movie, Gulliver’s Travels.
As well as Gulliver’s Travels Black, who won his Golden Globe nomination in 2004 for best actor in a comedy or musical for School of Rock, has three other movies awaiting release next year—Kung Fu Panda 2, The Big Year and Bernie.
He is also recording his second album with his band Tenacious D, which will open for the Foo Fighters in concert in Australia early next year.
Read More »BREAKING NEWS: SUSPECT IN CHASEN SLAYING KILLS HIMSELF
A suspect in the slaying of publicist Ronni Chasen killed himself tonight.
COMEDIAN LESLIE NIELSEN DIES AT AGE 84
Leslie Nielsen, the star of comedies like Airplane and the Naked Gun series passed away today due to complications of pneumonia.
Mr. Nielsen was 84. Or, as Mr. Nielsen would probably have said, “at the tender age of just 84″. Mr. Nielsen’s humor will long live on.
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LEONARDO DiCAPRIO PUTS SPOTLIGHT ON TIGER ISSUE
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| Russian prime minister Vladimir Putin welcomes Leonardo DiCaprio to the WWF Tiger Summit in St. Petersburg |
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EXCLUSIVE: JESSICA ALBA PRAISES CECIL B. DeMILLE RECIPIENT ROBERT DE NIRO
BILLY BOB BACK WITH FASTER & THE BOXMASTERS
When he is not making movies Billy Bob Thornton, who began his performing career playing drums and singing with a band, is still deeply involved in music and he is recording a new album with his band The Boxmasters.
“It’s an album of what we call acid songs—very moody and spooky-sounding,” he told HFPA members.
The 55-year-old actor, who has a new movie Faster, about to be released, also has a new single coming out in the New Year.
With the Boxmasters he released two albums in 2008 and another one last year.
MELISSA LEO: BLONDS DO HAVE MORE FUN!
Despite her Academy Award nominated role in Frozen River, actress Melissa Leo is not – yet – a household name.
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AFTER THE FIGHTER CHRISTIAN BALE LETS HIS GUARD DOWN
Since finishing his latest film, The Fighter, Christian Bale has let his hair grow down to his shoulders and has grown a full moustache and beard.
“You’re looking at unemployment,” he joked with HFPA members. “I get mistaken for Jesus Christ or Charles Manson.”
The 36-year-old actor, who portrays real-life ex-boxer and former crack addict Dicky Eklund in the movie, won’t be out of work for much longer. He is due to begin work in the New Year on the next Batman adventure, The Dark Knight Rises although, he says, he knows nothing about the storyline.
“Chris Nolan will tell me what I need to know when he thinks I need to know it,” he says.
