Daniel J. Stasiewski, A&E Editor
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alle Berry says her career and attitude couldn't be better
by Barry Koltnow
The Orange County Register
Halle Berry's jaw dropped.
"What did you say?" she asked with a stunned
look.
I repeated the question. "Could I see it?"
"Could you see what?" she asked, shifting her
body so that a few more inches separated her from
the strange man sitting next to her.
"Could I see your arm?"
"Oh, my arm?" she said, a smile crossing her face.
"I thought you were talking about this."
She pointed to her breasts.
"I've seen those before," I said, thinking back to
a topless scene in the movie "Swordfish" and a nude
scene in "Monster's Ball," the film that brought her
a well-deserved Best Actress Oscar.
"Not up close you haven't."
OK, she had me there. But the brief, playful ex
change in a penthouse suite at the L'Ermitage hotel
in Beverly Hills demonstrated how relaxed and
confident the 37-year-old actress is feeling these
days, even in the midst of a media storm over the
meltdown of her nearly three-year marriage to
singer Eric Benet, reportedly over his infidelity.
A few years ago, she admits, she might not have
been able to handle the very public breakup, par
ticularly in the middle of a marketing campaign to
promote her new movie, the supernatural thriller
"Gothika," which opens Friday.
"My personal life has always preceded me, so
I'm getting used to it," she said. "I ride it out for a
week or two and then it's over."
The reason the actress is better equipped to handle
the media obsession with her personal life (before
this doomed relationship, she had a media-scruti
nized marriage to baseball player David Justice) is
because of a new approach she's taken to her life.
: link-182 re-invents itself
review by Scott Soltis
assistant managing editor
Fans that have become accustomed to Blink
182's trademark pop-punk style should strongly
consider buying a song or two off of iTunes be
fore purchasing their entire untitled CD.
While hints of the style that , made Blink so popu
lar over the past few yeaxA.arp t ,sgen throughout
the album, the overall sound is very different. This
CD has more influence of Tom DeLonge (guitar/
vocals) and Travis Barker's (drums) side project
Boxcar Racer.
The sound is much deeper with only a few very
catchy songs. Also, the use of electric drums and
more extensive mixing gives more variation to the
sounds of the album. The songs are a mix of punk
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"I used to believe that if my career was going
great, then I was not entitled to a great personal
life. Well, I've stopped thinking that way. I believe
I can have it all. Heck, I deserve it all."
In "Gothika," Berry stars as Dr. Miranda Grey, a
criminal psychologist working in the psychiatric
ward of a women's prison. She awakens one day to
find herself incarcerated in the same prison, charged
with a brutal murder and haunted by ghosts.
Halfway through filming the movie, she broke
her arm in a scene with co-star Robert Downey Jr.,
bringing the film to a screeching halt for four weeks.
Upon her return, she worked for six weeks with a
camouflaged cast on her right arm.
In fact, producer Joel Silver said there never was
any discussion of scrapping "Gothika," and he
added that Berry's accident was a blessing in dis
guise.
"We started the movie in such a rush that we were
grateful for the four-week break to give Mathieu
(French director Mathieu Kassovitz) more time to
prepare for the second half of the movie."
Downey has apologized to Berry for grabbing
her arm hard enough to cause the injury. He is still
contrite but, with the passage of time, is able to
discuss the incident with some humor.
"I'm always willing to accept blame for anything
that happens within 50 miles of me, but in this case,
I felt so glad that I was sober when it happened,
(because when I'm not) everything on Earth would
be my fault."
Berry is a native of Cleveland, and her parents
separated when she was 4. In high school, she was
a cheerleader and prom queen and later was first
runner-up in the Miss USA pageant.
Three years of modeling in Chicago led to a role
on the forgettable TV series "Living Dolls," and
then to her first movie role as an addict in Spike
Lee's "Jungle Fever."
Blink 182's new album "Untitled" was released
Tuesday.
and emo. One song even features vocals by Rob
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Halle Berry waves to photographers at the
premiere of her film "Gothika."
Her movie career languished until her break
through role as the late Dorothy Dandridge in an
HBO movie about the singer. Berry won an Emmy
and Golden Globe for the portrayal.
"I remember winning the Golden Globe and
thinking that this was the epitome of life. I had a
marriage. I had a daughter." (She adopted Benet's
daughter, India.) "I had these awards. I had paid
homage to my hero (Dandridge). I was thinking that
my life was too good to be true. I said that so many
times, it turned out that it really was too good to be
true.
The lyrics have also marked a major shift for
Blink. The song "I Miss You" contains the lines
'Hello there, the angel from my nightmare/The
shadow in the background of the morgue/The un
suspecting victim of darkness in the valley." This
is a major difference from happy, upbeat tunes like
"First Date" and "The Rock Show" from the band's
last album "Take Off Your Pants and Jacket."
Just so you don't think Blink has turned into
goth punk like AFI, there are some woman angst
ridden songs like "Obvious." "I know you f****d
him again/Can you comfort yourself with a sense
of revenge/Are you leaving me here with the taste
of the end," is a great example of the "pissed off
at women" style that attracts many punk fans.
This is not Blink's best album, but it is a good
one to buy. Both loyal Blink fans and former fans
disgruntled with the "poppy" sound of the last al
bum should enjoy the album. "Obvious",
"Stockholm Syndrome," and "Easy Target" are
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"Right after that, I had the accident that flattened
For the record, the actress was cited for leaving
the scene of an accident in February 2000 on the
Sunset Strip. She said at the time that she hit her
head in the accident and has no memory of speed
ing away from the scene. She was fined $13,500
and ordered to serve 200 hours of community ser-
It proved to be a wake-up call for the actress,
who said she changed everything in her life after
that, including how she thought.
"I really believe you manifest what you think,
and I was thinking all wrong before the accident,"
she explained. "Since then, I've started thinking that
life is good and that I deserve all the good things
that are happening to me. I no longer believe that
something bad has to happen to me after something
good happens. I tell myself that every single day."
With the exception of her failed marriage, the
rethinking seems to be working. Her career has
never been hotter. She quickly has ascended to the
level of superstar, and her film schedule is booked
for years to come.
She is six weeks into filming "Catwoman," which
will be released in July. There is talk of a spin-off
of her Jinx character from the James Bond movie
"Die Another Day." There is a good chance she will
be back as Storm if a second sequel to "X
-Men" is
made, and there are several dramatic roles in smaller
films ready to go.
"She's a great talent, and she's finally getting her
due," Silver said. "It's all happening for her, and it
all started with the Oscar. An Oscar never hurts a
career."
Berry shrugs when asked if this is her time. "I'm
not sure what that means. I know it feels like a good
time for me. I'm happy, if that's what you mean by
this being my time."
three of the best songs on the album. "I Miss You,"
"I'm Lost Without You," and "Violence" are three
pleasantly different surprises for fans. The only
song that the album would be better off without is
"The Fallen Syndrome."
Overall this album is a nice change of pace from
the average punk CD, and a good step musically
for Blink-182. I give it two metal signs up.
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