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Esquire magazine has named Halle Berry as the sexiest woman alive in its November issue. “I don’t know exactly what it means, but being 42 and having just had a baby, I think I’ll take it,” says Berry.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Halle Berry and her model boyfriend Gabriel Aubry are expecting their first child, the Oscar-winning actress told celebrity TV show "Access Hollywood" on Tuesday. "Yes, I am three months pregnant," Berry wrote in an e-mail to the programme. "Gabriel and I are beyond excited, and I've waited a long time for this moment in life. Now the next ... months will be the longest of my life!" "Access Hollywood" said Berry, 41, met Aubry, 31, in 2005. Celebrity news Web site TMZ.com reported that producers of an upcoming film starring Berry, "Tulia," have postponed production of...

This winter, FEMA put up over 300 Hurricane Katrina evacuees in New York City hotels. Almost all of them have gone back to their lives, their jobs. But not Theon Johnson. He’s currently sprawled out watching Halloween 5 on one of the two full-size beds in his room at the JFK Airport Holiday Inn. He is one of four evacuees still living in a hotel in the city. The others left in February and March, when, after spending more than $500 million, FEMA stopped paying for hotel rooms housing some 40,000 evacuees across the country. That left many scrambling for...

What was meant to be a friendly chat to promote the new "X-Men" movie turned into a frosty discussion about race on a popular morning radio program, but the British Broadcasting Corp. defended its disc jockey - reports Associated Press. Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry appeared on Chris Moyles' Radio One breakfast show Thursday and clashed with her host after he impersonated what he described as a "big, fat, black guy." "Are we having a racist moment here?" Berry, the first black actress to win an Academy Award for a lead role, asked Moyles after she took exception to his impersonation....

Berry Can't Escape 'Catwoman' During Award By NANCY RABINOWITZ, Associated Press Writer 41 minutes ago CAMBRIDGE, Mass. - Halle Berry had to write "I will not make 'Catwoman II'" on a chalkboard four times Thursday in order to earn her pudding pot as Harvard's Hasty Pudding woman of the year. ADVERTISEMENT Berry's performance in the 2004 action bomb earned her a worst-actress award in last year's Razzies, a spoof of the Oscars that trashes Hollywood's worst. Berry also shook her hips in a comic faux dance competition to prove her superpower skills and to jokingly test her abilities as...

Hollywood beauty Halle Berry is searching for a sperm donor in a desperate bid to have a child.The star is single again after a brief three month relationship ended earlier this year.The Oscar winner already has an adopted daughter, but broody Berry is now desperate for a child of her own, and believes her only chance of conceiving is through artifical inseminiation.She says, 'It looks like the only option I have is to go to the sperm bank. I've been so desparately unlucky in love that it has thwarted my desire for motherhood. It's so frustrating.'The only other option would...

US actress Halle Berry won a three-year restraining order against a San Francisco security guard she says sent a series of threatening letters to her home. The man, identified as Robert Sawyer, said in court papers his contact with Berry was a result of mistaken identity and possible fraud and he begged the Oscar-winning actress for forgiveness. Neither Berry nor Sawyer were in court for today's hearing where a judge ordered Sawyer to stay away from Berry's home and place of work and stop phoning, emailing or writing to her. Sawyer wrote in documents submitted to the court that the...

Halle in tears again... for worst actress 14:00pm 27th February 2005 Halle Berry as Catwoman Catwoman: Claws out for film flop Most Hollywood stars fail to appear at awards ceremonies if they haven't won, but actress Halle Berry surprised the showbiz world by turning-up in person to collect a gong for worst actress. Berry was named worst actress of 2004 by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation for her performance in Catwoman and she showed up to accept her "Razzie" carrying the Oscar she won in 2002 for Monster's Ball. "They can't take this away from me, it's got my name...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - Dozens of birds got drunk from eating holly berries, then crashed into the glass of an office building and died. "It was like an Alfred Hitchcock movie," worker Denise Wilkinson said. "It was spooky. You could hear them where they flew into the glass." Warm weather and an ample supply of berries attracted hundreds of cedar waxwings into the enclosed courtyard of the three-story building Tuesday. The birds began getting drunk on the fermented berries. They got so loopy that some were falling off branches and others were slamming into the glass walls that enclose the...

When she became the first black woman to win the best actress Oscar, Halle Berry hoped she would be the first of many. Three years on, however, no woman has repeated her success. So Miss Berry, 38, has launched a savage attack on Hollywood producers and directors, accusing them of racial prejudice. "The struggle for a woman of colour to find good material is still very present, and it's a struggle I fight every day," she said. Miss Berry said there was such a shortage of decent roles on offer that she had resorted to buying the rights of books...

It's been a hard Kwanzaa this year. I haven't received a single card, and the "holiday" is almost over. I received a lovely letter yesterday from a black New York reader, but she didn't say a word about the black supremacist holiday. She wrote to give me a heads-up that while Halle Berry and Alicia Keys are making a movie about George S. Schuyler's daughter, Philippa, they don't even know how to correctly pronounce "Schuyler." My reader, an admirer of George S. Schuyler, pretty much ordered me to rectify the matter. I was looking forward to getting Kwanzaa notes and...

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...