The Hollywood File

The Hollywood File 

America's Black Entertainment Reference

HALLE BERRY: def: Bad To The Bone

Halle Berry delivers. From the very beginning when she danced in western chaps on top of a bar just prior to being blown up in "The Last Boy Scout" with Bruce Willice and Damien Wayans the world of movie goers have known they had something to look forward too. Halle Berry has not disappointed her audience and fans in the slightest. Everyone likes to attach their 'Movie-star-preference' to a winner. With Halle Berry you also get a really great, sensitive human being.


Observing Halle during a recent screening of her feature Frankie and Alice was like watching a graceful painting in motion. Her beauty is amazingly perfect. In fact stunning.

Her focus determined yet very pleasent to absorb and be a part of. She also has an impressive amount of brain power. Ms Berry is well known for having produced the only film ever made about Hollywood legend Dorothy Dandrige. Now she embarks on launcing a feature film into wide release. In addition Halle will be stepping onto the Broadway stage this year. With world-wide acclaim received from movies like X-Men and Cat Woman, an Oscar as Best Actress for her presentation of a vulnerable, lonely, recently widowed wife of an executed convict in Monsters Ball, to being the most unforgettable bond woman ever in Die Another Day Halle Berry has proven that she is destined to keep thrilling audiences all over the world with her blazing talent for some time to come. In Frankie & Alice Berry plays a torured woman that has pulled together a life on the fringe of society while harboring multiple personalities. Berry presents a disturbing portrait of woman who discovers her imbalance and deals with it. After seeing the ease with which she is able to present the shocking and complex inner turmoil of this woman I'm sure Halle Berry intends to bring more characters to the silver screen that we will enjoy and never forget.




Bits and Pieces of Hollywood


Hollywood really is an industry unto itself and a wonderful experience to be a part of.  We've become conditioned to information being at our fingertips and here we hope to fill the void.  
This is an open forum for comments and interaction through networking or plan old self indulgence of your favorite part of the industry we will keep it on file right here.
Post your comments, thoughts, shout about up-coming events, movie premiers, television cable, trips to Africa, stand-up comedy, producers, directors, casting directors and dancers.


The BROWN BETTIES highlight The Monique Show

by W. L. Baker


    From Stage to Fame for the beauties known as The Brown Betty's.   This will be a bias shout about the hottest LA Caberet act to hit  LA in a  while.  Pepper Chambers has mixed a group of brown skinned bombshells together that will make you sit there and listen to a really hot live stage show.   Hats off to THE BROWN BETTIES.  Why is this shout-about bias?  It's because This was a momentous week for the group who is looking at a March Opening at The Mint and reeling from a hot appearance on The Monique Show.  
Hot is a word that sticks to this out fit.  
That's them, see, up-top!  Right there!!
The show is called Harlem Nights.  Hot!
More in a minute.


Congratulations Dele & Ojo

the premiere screening of
BATHROOM VANITIES
 an official selection at the
19th Annual Pan African Film Festival

director CHRISTOPHER SCOTT CHEROT
producer DELE OGUNDIRAN  producer ADENRELE OJO
starrring
Dele Ogundiran / Adenrele Ojo / Amy Pennell Holland / Kathy Taylor




  

FOREVER IS GONE
by William Lewis Baker

EXCERPT:

Bontowski came to his wits. He stood up, then grabbed Patty Bruno by the shoulders. He dragged him toward the thick tree line to his left. He had to drag Bruno along the edge of the thicket for about ten feet, before he could find space to dump the body. It was at the edge of the hillside, near a deep drop. Bontowski lifted Bruno up to about waist high, then pushed. As the body rolled toward the night sky, Bontowski heard the sound of a car. He turned his head, quickly and saw that he was partly hidden by the shrubbery. He froze, the car passed quickly in a quiet whoosh.
As Bontowski backed away from the edge of the hill side, he back tracked and scrappd away the marks left in the gravel by Patty Bruno's heels, as he'ddragged him to the edge of the hilltop. Bontowski retraced all of his steps, back to where he'd awaken, near the center of the lttle viewing area where cars pull over and people get out and walk to the guard rail and take a look at the lights below. Just as he reached the spot where he'd awaken he started to turn around but heard the sound of an oncoming car on the road. He thrust his hands in his pockets and started walking. He held his head down, he could see that his shirt collar was unbuttoned and his tie was loosened. He wore a sad experession, he was a good actor and knew that he gave the impression of being a rejected lover, or a saddened husband, taking a walk after a fight with his wife. The car passed without a sound. It was followed by another, then another. Bontowski kept his head down and kept walking.
He was close to the road now , the shrubbery didn't allow for much room in the curb ahead. Another car passed he ducked some outstanding growth and kept walking. Then one more car passed, and all was quiet again. He looked ahead there was no sigh of anyone. He could feel the heat from the road, and see on the other side of the road that it quickly dropped off to a thick growth of what looked like very tall trees. He pulled his hands from his pockets and picked up his pace. He could have been someone who had just had car trouble, walking to the nearest gas station.
From this point on Mullholand drive though, a gas station was miles away. Ray Bontowski didn't know that. He'd never been in the San Fernando Valley. Since Bontowski had arrived in Los Angeles, he hadn't gone North of Sunset Boulevard.

At the moment Ray Bontowski didn't give a damn where he was. He only wanted to keep walking. He was mad. Nothing could have been worse than Patty ending up dead on one of his jobs.

When he and Jake made a pass on a guy, nothing went wrong. All their jobs had gone smoothly. Not a hitch. Now he was legit and Patty gets killed.

Read Novels by William Lewis Baker CHIP SHOT

CHIP SHOT

When a computer chip that was invented to print the Euro-Dollar is stolen an experienced assasin is assigned to retrieve it but when LA Detective Nick Boston looses a friend to this blood-thirsty professional the hunter becomes the hunted as vollys and serves across the tennis court cover international intrigue, theft, and murder in CHIP SHOT by William Lewis Baker.

(excerpt)


Attachment to the Embassy granted Andre Rubikoff Diplomatic Immunity while within the borders of the United States. He could park anywhere in the district while on business for the Embassy, and drive one of their specially licensed cars in any manner he wished, without being ticketed. This alone was enough for some people to say that Embassy Attaches got away with murder. Which in Andre's case was genuinely true.
Upon reaching his room the first thing he did was to make sure he had the name of the second person on the list. He took the list from his pocket. He read the name. The name was Suzanne Daly. The next thing Andre did was to check the wall cabinet in his room.
Andre unlocked the double door to the cabinet and saw on the second shelf, just at eye level, a polished wood grain attache' case. He removed the case, laid it on the bed and opend it. A disassembled semi-sutomatic weapon with polished wood stock lay silent in its case. Andre snapped it shut. He replaced the case to the shelf and a knock came to the door.