Halle Berry Loves Geoffrey… And Gabriel Too!
Halle Berry and model boyfriend Gabriel Aubry share a romantic cliff-side lunch together in Malibu, California on Tuesday.
The new parents left baby Nahla at home while they dined at Geoffrey’s Malibu.
After lunch, Gabriel, 32, lovingly helped Halle, 41, into the passenger’s seat before hopping behind the driver’s wheel.
Halle will soon return to work and will star in and produce the psychological drama Frankie and Alice. The film follows a woman who has been diagnosed with multiple personality disorder with one of the character’s alter egos being a racist Caucasian. Should be very interesting…
Halle Berry: Back in Black
Ever since she gave birth to her daughter Nahla Ariela Aubry back in March, Halle Berry has been a bit bashful around the paparazzi.
She was spotted outside her Beverly Hills home yesterday looking camera shy in a loose-fitting black dress complete with matching flip flops.
And though she’s been taking some time off of her stellar acting career to settle into motherhood, don’t count Halle out of the game.
She has several projects on the books, including “Tulia,” “Frankie and Alice,” and “Class Act,” all slated for production in 2008. Now if we can just get a peek at her beautiful new baby!
J-Hud To Join Halle Berry For Fundraiser
A couple of Academy Award winners will join forces at an upcoming fundraiser designed to raise awareness of domestic violence.
Jennifer Hudson, an Oscar winner for “Dreamgirls,” has been booked to perform at the Halle Berry Silver Rose Gala and Auction, benefiting the Jenesse Center.
Karen Earl, Executive Director Jenesse Center said: “It is thrilling to have Ms. Hudson join our event lineup. She is a true supporter of our work in healing families in crisis.”
The Silver Rose Gala and Auction is the kickoff event to the Silver Rose Weekend, held April 27 - 28, and honoring individuals and organizations in Jenesse’s circle of excellence that have demonstrated the “Power of One” to affect change in their communities.
The Silver Rose Weekend will continue with the inaugural Halle Berry Celebrity Golf Classic at the Mountain Gate Country Club on Monday, April 28 at 8:30 a.m. Avid golfer Samuel L. Jackson will join Berry on the greens with several Hollywood A-listers and registered guests for a day of friendly competition, fun and several opportunities for vigorously generous charitable giving.
All proceeds from the fundraiser will benefit the women and children of the Jenesse Center, a non profit organization that provides a holistic, comprehensive program to nurture victimized families back to a place of mental, financial, physical and emotional well being.
“The Silver Rose Weekend will raise much needed funds to help families victimized by domestic violence,” said Berry in a statement. “I donate my time and resources to Jenesse Center, because I strongly believe in this agency and have seen first hand the difference they make in the lives of women and children in their community.”
Halle names her daughter Nahla Ariela
Halle Berry has named her newborn daughter Nahla Ariela Aubry. The 41-year-old Monster’s Ball actress – who gave birth to her first child with her model boyfriend Gabriel Aubry in Los Angeles, recently, revealed she and Gabriel struggled to agree on what to call their new arrival.
She said, “We didn’t have a name picked out until just before we left the hospital. For us it was hard to name the most important person in our life until we met her.” Nahla translates as ‘honeybee’ in Arabic, while the Hebrew name Ariela means ‘lioness of God’. However, there could be a link to two Walt Disney films – The Lion King and The Little Mermaid.
In The Lion King, the main lioness is called Nala, while Ariel is the lead character in The Little Mermaid. A source close to the actress said, “Halle has always been a huge fan of the Disney films. She wanted to make a reference to her favourite two films with the name, but added her own take on them too.”
Christian Hudson: Wall Street, D.C. developing ‘Halle Berry complex”
Wall Street and Capitol Hill are in danger of developing a Halle Berry complex when it comes to the mortgage mess.
It has to do with illusion.
A number of years ago I bought a then-neglected row house in Washington, D.C. By that I mean when I pulled out the carpet, and the carpet under that carpet, I also pulled out drug paraphernalia. But the house’s solid bones, proximity to school and work, plus the neighborhood’s architecture and friendly vibe made it a score.
One day while out front landscaping, I spied what looked to be Halle Berry and a sidekick coming up my block! [OK, so clearly not Halle Berry, but her stunt double.]
Stunning, beautiful and gorgeous, she was everything you’d expect from her if she walked out of a James Bond film and onto your stoop.
She had lots of questions: Do I own? What’s my loan rate? Then the sell: I can lower my monthly payment if I refinance and restructure. She then complimented me on my house [Is Halle flirting with me?] At this moment, I can’t decide who feels prettier: me or my house.
Then the conversation came to a screeching halt. I explained that I liked my 30-year mortgage. She demanded to know why I wouldn’t want to pay less. I explained that consistency is better because I’m staying in the neighborhood and not flipping the house for a short-term gain. Besides, I said, the market can’t continue to grow at this rate.
“That’s stupid,” she said.
And she continued on to the next house. Wow. Halle Berry’s doppelganger just called me stupid. I smiled and laughed to myself. But when I watched her go door to door, the smile disappeared. My neighborhood is diverse in age, professions, economics and racial backgrounds. I love that about my neighborhood.
My ears were deaf to her pitch. At the time I was a journalist, the son of a real-estate appraiser, and a law student. Her next pitch was as likely to fall on any attorney, as it was one a retiree who lived through the neighborhood’s hard times of the 1980s crack epidemic.
It is not unlike the stories out in California. Is the guy who only speaks Spanish and relies on the bilingual mortgage broker or lender the same as the woman who can read the contract in English herself?
Right now, both Wall Street and Capitol Hill are painting solutions to the mortgage mess with Black and Decker-sized brush strokes.
But it seems to me that the person who was flipping properties, or buying a second piece of real estate as an investment is much different than my retired neighbor or someone new to the country relying on a broker’s language skills.
That’s why I think about Halle Berry every time I hear about the subprime mortgage mess. The danger is taking a square peg and jamming it into a round hole. Not every case is the same. Some will read this and conclude it’s another example of mortgage holders as victims, while others will point to me as an example of affirmative choice.
Consider the trial balloons currently floating around town: some have Uncle Sam buying up the delinquent mortgages through a government agency or quasi government agencies, others would send mortgage cases before a bankruptcy judge, and still another would push banks to change the mortgage payment in return for a stake in the principal when the house is eventually sold — a plan that received a boost by Federal Reserve Board Chairman Ben Bernanke in a speech on Tuesday.
The debate about these plans mostly centers around who picks up the tab — the taxpayer or the market. What we shouldn’t lose sight of is whether we are doing a good job of separating real victims from those who knowingly chose to gamble.
Christian Hudson, a former Santa Cruz resident, practices finance and real estate law in Washington.
Halle Berry’s Ready to Pop
Getting closer and closer to her due date, Halle Berry was spotted out on a shopping trip to Bristol Farms in Beverly Hills on Monday (March 10).
The Monster’s Ball actress, who wore a comfy purple short sleeve top with sweats, was followed by her grocery toting babydaddy Gabriel Aubry.
In related news, Berry is adding to her impressive resume by signing up to launch her own fragrance with cosmetic company Coty.
The company’s senior vice president of global marketing Steve Mormoris says that they wanted to work with Halle because: “[She] is an iconic actress and symbolizes beauty to many generations.”
The scent is expected to be launched in spring 2009 - giving Halle a year to take care of her soon-to-be-born baby.
Halle Berry up for NAACP Image Award Thursday
After a string of critical and commercial disappointments that followed her 2002 best actress Oscar for “Monster’s Ball,” Halle Berry drew accolades for her dramatic performance in 2007’s “Things We Lost in the Fire,” including an NAACP Image Award nomination for outstanding actress in a motion picture. The awards will be presented Thursday.
In the film, Berry plays a mother of two who is devastated when her husband is murdered. She becomes involved in a shaky but eventually healing relationship with his best friend, Jerry, a lawyer turned heroin addict (Benicio Del Toro). Now, in real life, expecting her first child with her boyfriend, model Gabriel Aubry, Berry takes a moment to reflect.
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A: I loved her resilience, that she was able to deal with her own grief and was then able to help someone else. But before she had that loss, she was a judgmental person, very self-righteous. She didn’t have the ability to come out of herself. She passed a lot of judgment on (Jerry). But I understood a lot of that came from fear.
Q: Have there been roles that made you wonder if you’ve taken on more than you should have?
A: I always think I’ve bitten off more than I can chew. (Laughs.) I always have that fear: Have I chosen something I can’t handle? But then I realize that’s the reason why I chose it. I’m like a moth to a flame. When the risk is really high, that’s a real charge for me.
Q: You’ve played such diverse roles. Is there a common thread about them that defines your sensibility or philosophy of life?
A: The characters are all different, but the common thread for me is to always choose roles that provide an outlet to express what I’m going through in real life. Since “Jungle Fever,” I’ll have that personal catharsis, where I’ll have a eureka moment and think, “That’s why this came to my life.”
With “Things We Lost in the Fire,” I desperately wanted to become a mother. I’ve played a mother before but this was a woman who was a good mother and completely devoted to her children and her family. And that’s what I wanted to create in my own life.
Q: Do you think having a child will influence your artistic choices?
A: I’m positive it will have a profound effect. I have no way of knowing how. Maybe in six months, but that would just be me guessing. I know I will feel the need to express something different. If I stay true to how I’ve chosen roles before, my choices will express the new person I’ve become.
Q: When was the last time you watched “Things We Lost in the Fire”?
A: I will watch my movies once when we’re preparing to do publicity and then once at the premiere, and I never watch them again. It’s just hard to watch myself — it’s not something I enjoy doing.
Q: During award season, how do you deal with the buzz?
A: It’s easy. I don’t feel a great sense of pressure. I feel lucky to have won a few awards in my career. When a group of your peers says you did good, it’s very nice to be acknowledged.
But I’ve learned that is not what the business is all about. It’s not what drives the engine. It’s just the cherry on top of the pie.
Q: Does it get easier or harder for you to leave a character like this on the set?
A: I’ve really learned the value of leaving it there. When I take my coat off on the set, it stays there. It’s not something I talk about at home. It’s not really healthy.
The 39th annual NAACP Image Awards, hosted by Tyra Banks, will be presented Thursday and will air at 8 p.m. on Fox.
Steal That Look, Forty Weeks Style: Halle Berry’s Patterned Pregnancy
We see a pattern here! Halle Berry has been the essence of natural, feminine and easy pregnancy style since she announced in September that she and Gabriel Aubry were expecting, what I am sure will be the world’s sexiest baby! It is no wonder that CBB readers voted Halle Berry “expectant mom of the year” -– she is simply gorgeous! Halle has been bold and true to her unique style and vibe through her entire pregnancy. Halle’s new third-trimester ‘do’ has only brought out more of her enviable effervescence. So what’s the pattern? Well, certainly confidence. And in this case, a patterned faux-wrap dress that really works with a charcoal cardigan and dark glasses for a great day look.
Halle Berry Last Baby Bump Photo
Halle Berry will meet her tiny baby very soon and then she’ll be off the baby bump watch!
So, this is the latest photo of mom-to-be Halle and her huge baby bump.
She was spotted returning home after a visit to a friends house.
I love her curly bob and i love her outfit! Totally cool!
When do you think she’ll have her baby? … maybe sometime late February, early March?
Oh! Will she have a baby girl or a baby boy?
Halle Berry visits a friend in Hollywood
Actress Halle Berry visits a friend in Hollywood, CA, today. When leaving, the 41-year-old received an escort from her bodyguard to her car. She and boyfriend, model Gabriel Aubry, expect their first child in March. They are not finding out the sex of their baby.