Halle Berry

Halle Berry's stalker stopped by Calif. judge A Superior Court judge in Santa Monica, Calif., granted a preliminary injunction that bars Greg Broussard, of Baldwin, La., from coming within 100 yards of actress Halle Berry, her manager or publicist. Broussard allegedly tried to contact Berry, 35, by telephone and fax. In a written declaration to the court, she alleged that 35-year-old Broussard "has imagined a relationship with me wherein he and I are engaged to be married and that my manager and publicist are preventing him from being with me."

OK, HERE ARE the rules: 1. If there's a line, you get at the end of the line, and you wait your turn. 2. You own one place in the line. You do not have the right to invite friends to join you in the line. This is rude to the people behind you, who got there before your friends, and will now have to wait longer. If you want to be with your friends, you can join them at the back of the line. And, no, it's not enough to ask the person immediately behind you if it's OK for your friends to butt in. This person does not speak for the entire line.

At the center of Gothika is a ghost trying to get prison psychologist Miranda Grey (Halle Berry) to do something. In the course of the film, we discover that the ghost can appear wherever she wants, write things down, open a door, work a computer, throw people against a wall and do a mean soft shoe (I made that last one up, but here's betting she could). So here's the question: Why doesn't she just up and tell the doc what she wants her to know? Or at least write it down? Unfortunately, the easy answer - the only answer - is that that wouldn't leave us with much of a movie to watch.

Halle Berry has a big, Cheshire grin as she reports on her latest male trouble. "He won't come out from under the bed," she says of the cat she adopted to study for the movie she's currently making, a Batmanless vehicle for the comic book hero's slinky nemesis/romantic interest, Catwoman. "It's not working too well, actually. He's scared of me." Which, though she clearly finds it amusing, must also be kind of frustrating for the Academy Award-winning actress. But at least the shoe's on Puss-in-Boots now; the cat's scared, but not Berry, which is a very nice change from the way things once were.

Who's hot Andres Galarraga of the Giants is hitting .478 (11-for-23) with three homers and 10 RBIs in his six starts. Who's not Benito Santiago of the Giants left nine men on base in his first four at-bats. Line of the day Brian Giles, Pirates LF AB R H RBI HR 4 2 2 3 2 On deck Halle Berry, who is filming in Montreal, will throw out the first pitch today, Pedro Mar tinez bobblehead day. He said it "I'll do the same things I do when I come out of the bullpen. The only difference is that instead of facing them once, I'll face them two or three times."

If you've ever wondered what it's like to be able to blow hundreds of thousands of dollars on silly items like diamonds, shoes and spa services, you shouldn't miss A&E's episode Saturday of Behind Closed Doors With Joan Lunden. Lunden, host of the show (which takes viewers places they ordinarily wouldn't have access to), faces an extraordinary task in "New York on a Million Dollars a Day," which airs at 8 p.m. She has to spend $1 million in 24 hours in an attempt to demystify the lives of the super-rich.

Halle Berry gave one of Oscardom's longest and most moving speeches in March when she became the first black woman to win the best-actress accolade. And she still has something to say. Her Oscar was for Monster's Ball, a small but harrowing film that was shot in four weeks in the Deep South. Starting tomorrow, she'll be seen in Die Another Day, a James Bond opus that's anything but small. It required six months of location shooting in Iceland, England and Spain. She plays Jinx, the good/bad girl who gives Pierce Brosnan's 007 more than he bargained for. What Berry wants us to know is that Jinx is one Bond girl who doesn't swoon.

HOLLYWOOD - A tearful, overwhelmed Halle Berry declared, "This moment is so much bigger than me" when she became the first black woman to win a best actress Oscar. The triumph was not hers alone, she said, but belonged to past and current black actresses who have struggled in Hollywood. More than three months later, Berry's words still ring true - but in a way she likely did not anticipate. Caustic remarks by Angela Bassett in the July 1 issue of Newsweek, in which she criticizes the sexual nature of Berry's Oscar-winning role in Monster's Ball while subtly questioning Berry's choice in taking on the part, has reignited a fierce debate inside and outside the black entertainment community about Berry and the bittersweet significance of her victory.

The Oscar red carpet traditionally has been the backdrop for the glamorous and the ridiculous, the style-setters and the fashionably challenged, the covered up and, well, Jennifer Lopez. This year, however, there was a common theme -- taste and restraint, with a touch of old Hollywood sophistication. Instead of plunging necklines and displayed derrieres, there were champagne ruffles, scrumptious lace and wispy chiffons. "People wanted to do glamour but nobody wanted it to go over the borderline between glamour and vulgarity," said Valerie Steele, acting director for the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York.

With his shimmering gowns and rich brocade dresses, Lebanese designer Elie Saab's haute couture pieces have adorned Arabian queens and celluloid stars from Catherine Deneuve to Bo Derek. But until Halle Berry stepped onto Oscar's magical red carpet in a spectacular, burgundy Elie Saab gown Sunday, the little-known designer was hardly a regular in the pages of Vogue, much less a household name. One night, however, can make all the difference. After dressing Hollywood's new Cinderella on the biggest night of her career, the question in America's fashion industry this week has been, "Who's Elie Saab?"