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03-02-2005, 02:25 PM
Not exactly a rant but an excellent article on how well Halle Berry handled her Razzie award. She seemed to handle it with a good sense of humor, humility (loved the line from her mother about having to be a good loser) and matter-of-factness, saying that Catwoman was not her best picture. I wish more actors could handle themselves the same way instead of taking themselves too seriously, not necessarily see the Razzies as an insult and admit when they make bad movies (e.g. JHo who still insisting that Gigli was good).
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http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1427782,00.html
Hats off to Halle
Laura Barton
Tuesday March 1, 2005
Guardian Unlimited
Try as one might these past three years, it's been hard to scrub the sticky memory of Halle Berry's syrupy Oscars acceptance speech from one's mind - the gushing, the tears, the copious thanking of 25 people, including Oprah Winfrey.
The general consensus has been that in receiving her award for best actress for her role in Monster's Ball, Berry was one step above Greer Garson's seven-minute epic and just short of the full Gwyneth Paltrow. But this week, she might just have made amends. Saturday, on the eve of the Academy Awards ceremony, saw the presentation of the annual Golden Raspberries, or Razzies - the anti-Oscars, where the gongs are handed out for the year's worst contributions to film. In this, the 25th year of the Razzies, Berry was triumphant, notching up the award for worst actress for her lead role in Catwoman, a film which also garnered worst film, worst director and worst screenplay.
Stars, however, rarely grace the Razzies with their presence. They are already too busy trying to winch themselves into their Oscar frocks - a process that requires two cranes and takes, on average, at least three days. Indeed the last actor to personally accept a Razzie was Tom Green, who did so for his part in 2001's seminal work Freddy Got Fingered.
But Berry not only put in an appearance, saying her mother taught her that to be "a good winner you had to be a good loser first", she also delivered a resounding speech which resurrected her Academy Award acceptance, and came complete with tears. "Omigosh, oh, my God!" she gushed. "I never in my life thought that I would be here, winning a Razzie. It's not like I ever aspired to be here, but thank you!" she told the crowd, wielding her Oscar in one hand, her Razzie in the other, before proceeding to thank everyone involved in the making of Catwoman - a film she claimed "was just what my career needed" having taken her from the top of her profession to the bottom. "I want to thank Warner Brothers for casting me in this piece of shit," she continued, "I'd like to thank the rest of the cast - to give a really bad performance like mine you need to have really bad actors," before hauling her agent on stage and warning "next time read the script first". Berry then left the stage to euphoric cheers and a standing ovation. Hilary Swank, take note.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005
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http://film.guardian.co.uk/features/featurepages/0,,1427782,00.html
Hats off to Halle
Laura Barton
Tuesday March 1, 2005
Guardian Unlimited
Try as one might these past three years, it's been hard to scrub the sticky memory of Halle Berry's syrupy Oscars acceptance speech from one's mind - the gushing, the tears, the copious thanking of 25 people, including Oprah Winfrey.
The general consensus has been that in receiving her award for best actress for her role in Monster's Ball, Berry was one step above Greer Garson's seven-minute epic and just short of the full Gwyneth Paltrow. But this week, she might just have made amends. Saturday, on the eve of the Academy Awards ceremony, saw the presentation of the annual Golden Raspberries, or Razzies - the anti-Oscars, where the gongs are handed out for the year's worst contributions to film. In this, the 25th year of the Razzies, Berry was triumphant, notching up the award for worst actress for her lead role in Catwoman, a film which also garnered worst film, worst director and worst screenplay.
Stars, however, rarely grace the Razzies with their presence. They are already too busy trying to winch themselves into their Oscar frocks - a process that requires two cranes and takes, on average, at least three days. Indeed the last actor to personally accept a Razzie was Tom Green, who did so for his part in 2001's seminal work Freddy Got Fingered.
But Berry not only put in an appearance, saying her mother taught her that to be "a good winner you had to be a good loser first", she also delivered a resounding speech which resurrected her Academy Award acceptance, and came complete with tears. "Omigosh, oh, my God!" she gushed. "I never in my life thought that I would be here, winning a Razzie. It's not like I ever aspired to be here, but thank you!" she told the crowd, wielding her Oscar in one hand, her Razzie in the other, before proceeding to thank everyone involved in the making of Catwoman - a film she claimed "was just what my career needed" having taken her from the top of her profession to the bottom. "I want to thank Warner Brothers for casting me in this piece of shit," she continued, "I'd like to thank the rest of the cast - to give a really bad performance like mine you need to have really bad actors," before hauling her agent on stage and warning "next time read the script first". Berry then left the stage to euphoric cheers and a standing ovation. Hilary Swank, take note.
Guardian Unlimited © Guardian Newspapers Limited 2005