Can You Find Halle Berry's Oscar Clip in New Frankie & Alice Trailer?
Trick question! They're all Oscar clips -- one big epic montage of Berry getting her split-personality freak on with this accent and that wig, this meltdown and that comedown, this transgression and that redemption... Take your pick. All that's missing is Kirk Lazarus supplying the requisite ham in the Stellan Skarsgård role, and we're in real awards-season business.
Despite what you've heard, Frankie & Alice is no likelier than I am to earn an Oscar nomination this year. But you've really got to hand it to the producers -- and Berry, for that matter -- for the pure, reaching shamelessness of their trailer, from the requisite "bitch is mental" episode in the street to the sympathetic old white doctor who will diagnose and restore her to dignity. In between there are the ill-timed personality switches (a low, throaty "Frankie's not here, Mrs. Torrance," or something), some suggestive dancing (because, you know, Halle's fearless like that), and some awesome one-liners suggesting a patrician pedigree hiding behind all that skeeze.
In the spirit of climbing Mt. Halle because it's there, pick your favorite moment, and let's see if we can't find some consensus for Oscar night. And then, please, can we move on?
VERDICT: That crying sound you hear is Natalie Portman -- laughing.
[via AOL Black Voices]
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From the looks of where those red Xs are in that picture, some of Ms. Berry's assets are worth a little less than the supposed million bucks paid for in 2001's Swordfish.
White girls always win because they get "cast"-so what is new? I give credit to any colored girl who creates buzz and makes anything happen for herself in an industry the has been virtually a "Whites Only" club since it's inception. Laugh if you want . Berry's got ambition, drive and she produced "Frankie and Alice," a true story and created her own opportunity. There any many talented actresses that are not white that deserve the same opportunities that a Nicole Kidman, Annette Benning, Natalie Portman, Reese Witherspoon etc..get. You wouldn't know who these Oscar contenders were if they were not white-because their careers would have died from a lack of offers. Chew on that. Actually the most important asset in Hollywood is skin color.
Come on. The point isn't about creating opportunity. It's about the motivation for creating opportunity. Few things in the entertainment realm are sadder than the sustained delusion that is Oscar season, when so many actors, directors, producers, and other creative types (plus their more imagination-impaired studio bosses) pretend they've made work under any pretense other than A) winning an Oscar and B) reaping the box-office/salary rewards that follow. I mean, this is Hollywood 101 -- the way it is -- and calling Berry out for it is no different than saying "white-girl" producers like Hilary Swank overreached on _Amelia_ or _Conviction_, or that Nicole Kidman did the same on _Rabbit Hole_.
These are Oscar-season films, fine. But simply placing them in that context by release date doesn't entitle their stars -- black, white, whatever -- to the creative benefit of the doubt.
She is weird. I just dont care about this celebrity news.
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