Celebrity Hair Talk - Halle Berry Update

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Posted By: Mike46019
Date Posted: Apr 5, 2007 at 4:19pm

I know she looks great with short hair. But the moive could end up as a flop. That's all. I guess I was going after the moive then her hair.!% Ah ``d ba ,%$ bp $($ b ).,%$)-!,) ! % 0b` %$

Posted By: fatmoogas
Date Posted: Apr 5, 2007 at 5:53pm

I'm not sure, but when this was discussed before by Jerky Flea, he referred only to a story based on a novel where the protagonist is an African American who cuts her hair as part of an overall movement towards her African roots. He didn't say anything about a shaving and nor did I hear about it anywhere else. Couldn't she just have a haircut? Is this a recently thought of gimick?

In any case, it will be interesting to see if she sticks with her "signature" short hair or grows it out again.(!% Qa da d`` ) $ br

Posted By: Mike46019
Date Posted: Apr 5, 2007 at 11:31pm

Agree with you there but it has been reported on other sites as well she is going for broke. I would also like to see if she grows it back out. I wished they would blue screen it. We should be at that point by now. LOL.!% Ah ``d ba ,%$ bp $($ b ).,%$)-!,) ! % 0b` %$

Posted By: Ben C
Date Posted: Apr 6, 2007 at 6:39am

When does filming start?

Posted By: ssjockey
Date Posted: Apr 6, 2007 at 10:33am

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Not having read the book, I believe that the haircut is from processed hair to very, very short crop, so basically shaved.

Posted By: fatmoogas
Date Posted: Apr 6, 2007 at 3:46pm

A very short crop is not shaved.(!% Qa da d`` ) $ br

Posted By: HAWG
Date Posted: Apr 6, 2007 at 8:23pm

Karen has done a piece on the subject of her shaving her head.

http://hollywoodandmane.blogs.dailyceleb.com/

Posted By: fatmoogas
Date Posted: Apr 6, 2007 at 9:26pm

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Posted By: brunett_bunny
Date Posted: Apr 9, 2007 at 11:38am

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Posted By: Kramer
Date Posted: Apr 10, 2007 at 4:40am

Halle looked very cute last night on David Letterman's show, but honestly, her hair looked very wiglike. Kind of like Beyonce Knowles looks some nights: no part, for example. - Aa lape d , 4(`b $,`` /

Posted By: fatmoogas
Date Posted: Apr 10, 2007 at 10:22am

I really don't think it's a wig--but who can tell for sure? I've seen recent shots of her on the set of her film and she was wearing a braid through the back of a baseball cap. She was clearly "not in costume" so there was no need for her to fake anything.(!% Qa da d`` ) $ br

Posted By: Bob S
Date Posted: Apr 10, 2007 at 12:34pm

I imagine that fairly soon pictures of bald Halle will be seen as frequently as mosquitos in summertime. Is anyone else tired of actresses shaving their heads for movie roles, to be true to "art"? I think it's pretty ridiculous, and feeds into fantasies of those who enjoy de-feminizing women. True, baldness happens to those who dread it every day, and it's not a "disgrace". But I'm uncomfortable with films that seem to celebrate it.

The pity is that Halle has worked extremely long and hard to make her fairly long hair look so beautiful, and she seems rather sad about the impending shave. Yes, it is her choice, ultimately. But, I remember that Jane Seymour wore a stubble cap for her role in a Holocaust movie. No one thought any less of her for it.

One white woman friend had her hair corn-rowed recently. I thought it looked cool, albeit painful, and I told her as much. Later, I learned that some guys had ridiculed her for "trying to look black". This infuriated me. Likewise, other folks believe that a black woman who straightens her hair is being disloyal to *her* heritage.

Can't people simply be individuals today? Some curlies will move mountains to straighten, and many with straight locks spend gazillions to emulate the waves and curls that they covet. It can be fun and fascinating for those of every ethnicity to acquire knowledge about their ancestry, but when people start criticizing *others* within their own "group" for being "race traitors" over choice of hairstyle, they are really attacking a person's individuality and humanity. And I find them a reprehensible lot.

I fear that "Nappily Ever After" may seek to shame women who may not meet the self-righteous standards of others. I hope I am proved wrong. Blessings, Bob

Bob S2007-04-10 12:35:47

Posted By: fatmoogas
Date Posted: Apr 10, 2007 at 12:59pm

I tend to agree with you Bob. I find it hard to believe that HB is going to do something so corny after so many others before her. GI Jane virtually finished Demi Moore's career (because it was a rubbish movie--and the gratuitous head shaving didn't save it). Why can't HB simply go and have a haircut like everyone else if she wants to change her style? This is just so unoriginal for a big movie star that it's tacky.(!% Qa da d`` ) $ br

Posted By: buzzit
Date Posted: Apr 10, 2007 at 1:39pm

Halle was on Regis and Kelly this morning and said that she is going to shave her head Bald in the movie and the movies point is that the true beauty of a person is not what her hair looks like but true beauty comes from within!

Posted By: Bob S
Date Posted: Apr 10, 2007 at 2:54pm

What Halle said about inner beauty is a truth of life, Buzz. But the purpose of an *on-screen* head-shave is titillation and publicity *only*. The movie could have made the same point *without* her hair *actually* being obliterated. Shaving one's head (even a woman's) is never the end of the world. But hair is gorgeous (amazingly so sometimes), and contributes to the joy of life for many people. If the folks involved in this movie *really* believed that hair has little to do with outward beauty, the entire crew would emerge off the set with shiny skulls. My crystal ball sees a heavy dose of farce in this flick. Best, Bob

P.S. Here's more prophesy: Halle will appear everywhere telling her audiences that the experience was freeing, self-revealing, profound and well worth doing.

Posted By: fatmoogas
Date Posted: Apr 10, 2007 at 3:21pm

Halle has always been a looker--but not very original I'm afraid!(!% Qa da d`` ) $ br

Posted By: Klaatu48
Date Posted: Apr 10, 2007 at 4:34pm

I'm not quite sure what the big deal about this is... We know she looks gorgeous with short hair, and that's what she'll wind up with after the flick. And she's said a few times she'd eventually go back to short anyway, so it's not like she's taking a huge gamble here (unlike Natalie Portman, for instance). If the movie is about a woman's transformation and acceptance of self, though, then the headshaving scene would be rather pivotal and kind of necessary to show. Otherwise it'd be like leaving out the bits where Jeff Goldbloom turns into a monster in <i>The Fly</i>.

Posted By: Mike46019
Date Posted: Apr 10, 2007 at 8:42pm

I like her longer look. I just hope she isn't going to keep her short look for long. It's been nice to see the change that's all and now she is just going back to her old style. For me it's just going back to the same old look. !% Ah ``d ba ,%$ bp $($ b ).,%$)-!,) ! % 0b` %$

Posted By: buzzit
Date Posted: Apr 10, 2007 at 11:58pm

Its a sad day and age when people think that because a women has shaved her head means that she has been DE-FEMINISED it is the pure point of this movie..... THE TRUE BEAUTY OF A WOMEN DOES NOT DEPEND ON THE OUTWARD APPERANCE!!!!!!!!!!!! The onscreen haircut-headshave is the factor that will lead to the realization to the character that she is a beautiful person no matter what people think of it!!

The best part about this whole thing is that the world will see that a absolutly beautiful movie star like Halle will be seen as STILL being beautiful without what the majority of people consider to be the "crowning glory" and a Feminine part of a woman! LOOK WITHIN PPL!

buzzit2007-04-11 08:24:46

Posted By: fatmoogas
Date Posted: Apr 11, 2007 at 10:52am

Buzzit (interesting name!) you seem to think that this movie will turn out to be a great masterpiece...The title is not encouraging (frivolous?) and it wouldn't surprise me if it was a flop..though clearly people are going to be talking about the headshave and no doubt this will improve the box office (which is presumably the intention).

Today, Halle was back to the extentions and looked beautiful.

http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=gls====268596&nbc1=1

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Posted By: Bob S
Date Posted: Apr 11, 2007 at 12:56pm

Ouch, Mr. Buzz! For a guy who is about to see his dream come to pass on the silver screen, you seem rather hostile. *Your* side will prevail, if you haven't noticed.

Fantasies are what they are; I'm not judging you. But I stand by my opinion. (BTW, many of the most feminine women I know wear short haircuts. Hairstyle is only about *outward* appearance, *as I thought I made clear*. You were looking for "buzzwords", pardon the expression.)

So, you may enjoy the movie, many times if you desire. I won't be dragged to it by wild horses. I believe the shearing is ridiculous, but as Fat has stated, the box office may swell significantly b/c of the extra publicity. Cordially, Bob

Bob S2007-04-11 12:58:05

Posted By: Mike46019
Date Posted: Apr 11, 2007 at 1:55pm

Fat thanks for the link. Very nice. I guess when she goes short forget the add ons for awhile. I guess we better get what we can now after the moive forget about it for awhile. I think it's about six months. I could be wrong.!% Ah ``d ba ,%$ bp $($ b ).,%$)-!,) ! % 0b` %$

Posted By: Hellfrozeover
Date Posted: Apr 12, 2007 at 4:43am

"Lucky Halle Berry was sandwiched between two of her favourite leading men last night when she attended the New York premiere of

Posted By: Mike46019
Date Posted: Apr 12, 2007 at 7:46am

Well I hope that is true that she is rethinking about it. Plus as we all know she likes useing fake hair. When bald she couldn't used them for a long time.!% Ah ``d ba ,%$ bp $($ b ).,%$)-!,) ! % 0b` %$

Posted By: fatmoogas
Date Posted: Apr 12, 2007 at 4:56pm

Interesting HFO. I saw "Perfect Stranger" today and HB looked absolutely beautiful. This "Nappily Ever After" movie was put on the back burner for a long time-and I guess it could go there again. The thing that should really stop HB is the cornyness of the very idea...So many have done it before...It was a flop for all of them!(!% Qa da d`` ) $ br

Posted By: Julie30
Date Posted: Apr 12, 2007 at 5:32pm

Actually it isn't a flop for them, it does work, it does attract attention, that is why they do it.

Persis Khambatta wouldn't even have been known to western audiences if she hadn't shaved her head for the first Star Trek movie (it was a dreadful movie, the only reason it has done so well on rentals is because of her, she was so beautiful, and looked so exotic with a bald head)

Sinead O'Conner is a very average singer with only so-so songs. She would have never gotten much attention if she hadn't shaved her head.

Bai Ling was a largely unknown actress until she got so much attention for shaving her head.

Eve Salvail and Alec Wek were unknown fashion models until they shaved their heads, then they got all sorts of modeling work.

Two things about women with shaved heads;
One- it only works for them if they are beautiful and feminine women.
Two- It works for some women because it is still taboo in western culture for a woman to have a shaved head. Short hair, even very short hair is fine, many western women wear that. But completely bald, that is still unusual. So it attracts attention. If it was more common it would attract much less attention.
When bob hairstyles started in the 1920s, it was taboo and it attracted all sorts of attention. Now it is just another hairstyle for women. The same with short skirts on women.
It is like very long hair on men, or skirts on men. It is taboo but it turns some women on (assuming the man is handsome).
The same with a shaved head on a lady, assuming she is beautiful. It is taboo and it turns some men on.

This movie by Halle seems boring to me, like the first Star Trek movie was. But because Halle is going to be bald in it, like Persis Khambatta was in the first Star Trek movie, it will attract attention.

By the way, does anyone know when Halle is going to shave her head? When are they going to start filming that movie?
Julie302007-04-12 18:04:32!,)

Posted By: Mike46019
Date Posted: Apr 12, 2007 at 8:03pm

If you read the last post or next to last on page 3 she might not go with it. I don't know about the Star Trek I know people that are trekkies and well they told me they didn't like the first moive. I guess that's why it took. 3 years to make the next one also keep this in mind they say all the even ones made the cash.!% Ah ``d ba ,%$ bp $($ b ).,%$)-!,) ! % 0b` %$

Posted By: Merle T
Date Posted: Apr 13, 2007 at 10:31pm

Wonder if Halle will shave her head. Probably would look good on her. She looked so stunning, really beautiful, wearin' that short pixie she used to wear, especially when she was dolled up sexy!

Posted By: fatmoogas
Date Posted: Apr 14, 2007 at 7:40am

"Wonder if Halle will shave her head. "

Merle T.

So it's in doubt now?(!% Qa da d`` ) $ br

Posted By: blackhoney112
Date Posted: Apr 14, 2007 at 9:11am

I would have said I loved her short hairstyles better than the long because it didn't have any shape it was just long but I love the bangs she just got it was very cute...but I do suspect she wears some sort of extentsions, she has such a pretty face she can carry out a bald head.

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Posted By: fatmoogas
Date Posted: Apr 16, 2007 at 4:56pm

Talk of "Nappily Ever After" seems to have fallen off the radar screen. Now it seems a remake of "Barbarella" will be HBs next project (big hair for that?)(!% Qa da d`` ) $ br

Posted By: Mike46019
Date Posted: Apr 16, 2007 at 10:59pm

fatmoogas I hope so I know the first one had really big hair. Jane's hair really looked good in that one.!% Ah ``d ba ,%$ bp $($ b ).,%$)-!,) ! % 0b` %$

Posted By: buzzit
Date Posted: Apr 20, 2007 at 9:33am

WOW... http://www.wireimage.com/GalleryListing.asp?navtyp=gls====270025&nbc1=1

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