"Berry can't escape 'Catwoman' during award
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — 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.
After promising in writing that there will be no Catwoman II, Berry was allowed to claim her Hasty Pudding pot.
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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 an action star.
Before she was given the traditional brass pudding pot during a roast at Harvard's Hasty Pudding Theater, Berry danced suggestively with a Harvard student dressed like a French poodle, which Berry's presenter's dubbed Dogman.
She also acted out scenes from Monster's Ball, a film for which she won an Oscar and a SAG award in 2002.
Berry, 39, said she takes her Hasty Pudding award "very seriously."
"It's going to go right next to my Oscar," she said.
Earlier Thursday, Berry rode in a silver Bentley convertible in the traditional parade through Harvard Square, flanked by two male Harvard students dressed in drag.
Berry, who also won an Emmy for her performance in the HBO film Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, will reprise her role as Storm in X3, the third installment in the X-Men series, due May 26.
Richard Gere is to be honored Feb. 24 as the Hasty Pudding Man of the Year.
The awards are given by Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the nation's oldest undergraduate drama troupe.
Peter Dodd, one of the Harvard students who participated in the roast onstage with Berry, said the actress was picked for the Hasty Pudding honor because "she's just such a good role model for anyone interested in the arts ... and she's just so fun."
Last year's Hasty Pudding winners were Catherine Zeta-Jones and Tim Robbins." Associated Press
4 comments:
Now wait just a gosh durn minute! Catwaman was fun, wasn't it? It had its charms, didn't it? I seem to recall really enjoying. . .wait a minute, I was thinking of the time Jimmy Johanssen punched me in the face in the third grade.
My friend Meg was part of the Hasty Pudding thing when she was at Harvard. She told me Jodie Foster was really fun to hang out with after they gave her an award.
I'd party with Halle, Catwoman or no.
She looks completely fantastic in that costume (at least in the promo pictures). (Or, all the promo pictures EXCEPT the one here where she's grimacing.) But then, bare-midriff superheroine costumes do something irrational to my brain.
It's too bad the realities of hollywood don't allow for "super team-up" stories the way you get in real comics. Like, the famous incident in the 60s when Spider-Man tried to join the Fantastic Four and was turned down. That would be great cinematically with Jessica Alba doing scenes with Toby McGuire. Similarly you could have Brandon Routh (assuming he's any good) teaming up with Christian Bale for "World's Finest: The Movie."
Or they could put Jessica Alba as Sue Storm, Halle Berry as Catwoman, Jennifer Garner as Elektra and Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft in the same movie. I know they're all from non-intersecting continuities. I'm not that concerned about that part.
The Catwoman costume is lame, except where it doesn't exist and you can see Halle's body.
While I like the idea of Marvel crossover (and isn't there a Batman/Superman planned after both franchises do a sequel?), I think the Alba/Berry/Garner/Jolie vehicle would do best if they added Uma Thurman and just went ahead and made Fox Force Five.
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