Looking Back
HOT GALLERY: 10 Stars Who Fell Victim to the Oscar Curse
Winning an Oscar is the dream of almost every actor, actress, and precious stage dog—we love you, Uggie!—this side of Hollywood and Vine. What aspiring thespian hasn’t clutched a hairbrush while standing in the mirror, tearfully thanking her agent, parents, and Pilates instructor who knew the name of that discreet plastic surgeon? But what they don’t tell you when you step off the bus from Iowa—because that still happens, right?—is that winning an Academy Award can also be a curse. Or you just have a really bad knack for picking scripts. (We’ll go with cursed.) By Katherine Butler
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Halle Berry—Today
Monster’s Ball was a career pinnacle for Berry, who chose to follow up her statuette for her depressing role with a truly depressing choice in film roles. First, she starred in the box-office bomb Gothika. Then she pounced onto the big screen as Catwoman, a wonderfully sexy role with a script equivalent to a mountain of unclean kitty litter. Things We Lost in the Fire? More like things we’d never want to find again. Today, Berry is best known for her antics in the tabloids over her custody war with baby daddy Gabriel Aubry. But she’s had something of a TV comeback with CBS’s Extant.
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