OlderHalle is Berry Sorry About Anti-Semitic Remark
Halle Berry apologized last night after she made an anti-Semitic joke while taping The Tonight Show with Jay Leno Friday afternoon.
An audience member told Page Six, Halle was showing photos of herself when she said, “Here’s where I look like my Jewish cousin!” and showed a shot of herself with a huge nose.
Halle said, “I so didn’t mean to offend anybody - and after the show I realized it could be seen as offensive, so I asked Jay to take it out, and he did. What happened was I was backstage before the show and I have three girls who are Jewish who work for me. We were going through pictures to see which ones looked silly, and one of my Jewish friends said [of the picture], ‘That could be your Jewish cousin!’ And I guess it was fresh in my mind, and it just came out of my mouth. But I didn’t mean to offend anybody.”
You can watch Halle’s appearance on Leno here (the anti-Semitic remark was cut out).
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89 magnus MFA- you the one that need to shut up already
why you speak like that???? you think you are more pretty from the majority of the Jewish (i sure that you not)
you dont understand nobody whining like you said simpley people dont like racism
the second picture with the huge nose acutally remineds me of Jennifer Aniston’s nose loooooool now its Maniston’s turn to start crying because I criticised her nose loooooooooool
Anti-Semetism is any derogatory/hostile statement against someone who is a Semite i.e.Jews. Is often misconstrued to only mean against the Jews. Fallacy the Jews aren’t the only Semitic people.
Semites: Hebrews,Arabs, Assyrians, etc.
Semitism: Semitic characteristics i.e. ways, ideas, influences, etc. of the Jewish people. A semitic word or idiom (Semite languages).
Just bc she didn’t pull a Mel or say the word Kike or Sheeney or Heeb, he comment while not hostile i.e. so and so ‘jewed’ me or that god damn Jew, etc. can be classified as a form of A-S even though I am sure she did not intend for it to be so. But because of the nose reference/stereotype as well as other stereotypes that have been pointed out.
Halle just had a major brain **** that’s all. Who said Halle’s half Jewish? Please enlighten me. Unless she or her cousin’s real name is Shelia/Sheelah Schottenstein and they are from Shaker Heights, OH.
Ok People look at the second picture with the hugeeee nose. Halley girl instead of saying your nose looked like a jewish nose you should of just said that it looked just like Jennifer Aniston’s nose check it out seperated by birth here
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/9466/jenniferaniston1dy.jpg
the huge nose on the second picture reminds me of her http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/9466/jenniferaniston1dy.jpg
BEFORE AND AFTER HAHAHAHA STILL LOOKS UGLY
http://www.parade.com/export/sites/default/images/2007/0325/aniston.jpg
Anti-semitic? Holy crap! People are freaking sensitive. Like nobody here has made a joke at somebody else’s expense. This is completely retarded and this whole “tip toe around so nobody gets offended” crap, is insane! Its a miracle that anything gets done in this country when this is how people think. I mean, dont offend people on purpose, but she has just making a stupid joke! Idiotic politically correct a holes!
Like I said in my earlier post like Diana and Scotty have said she blames others. The car wreck someone else’s fault nothing like I had a reaction or was drunk partying with the girls while my boo at the time (Eric Benet)is at home will stand by my side when I go to my lawyers while I have Aunt Oprah and Uncle Warren (who I supposedly played the casting couch to get the role in Bulworth) get the charges dropped or reduced.
I have my then husband David Justice pay my court costs for the married dentist who said I stiffed him for $80 for publicity photos and to get my teeth capped. That wasn’t my fault. Of course David should pay for me racking up his credit cards by meals and other things for men. Not my fault.
I could go on with David and Eric but I won’t. It was always they owed me, I am entitled, etc. Her bitching about Eric not working, didn’t she want Eric to be a house hubby and take care of her and his kid but wouldn’t put out when she too tired from focusing on her career?
She blames all of her career struggles on racism or playing the race card. Yes, I know Hollywood is racist true. If Halle was really that good of an actress than she wouldn’t have to stuggle or still struggle for the parts she gets. Hell I didn’t even know she was bi-racial until some program ran and showed her mother.
The Parade/Suicide thing–it was their fault for digging up the info. They say she was talking on candidly on tape.
She even joked on Tavis about no beatings/domestic violence in my home when raising my child or something to that effect.
The list could go on giving examples that Halle still doesn’t take responsibility for her actions. God forbid what’s going to happen if all the rumors about she and Aubry are true, what’s she going to say then. Or what excuse is she going to use if/when the relationship may/will sour.
Get over Jennifer Anniston and her nose. Never said I was offended by Halle’s comment/picture. It was just stupid. Nothing about it being a Black/Jewish thing. Nothing about it being a PC thing I couldn’t careless. It was plain stupid. Just as other people have pointed out when Jews/others make jokes about others.
#98-correction it was $80K not $80.
I feel sorry for her ‘Jewish cousin’, because damn that’s one ugly face forget just the nose.
Halle better be giving some awesome Hanukkah presents this year.
Magnus MFA!! You are so right-I am tired of al the political correctness, just come out and call me what you want so I will know whether to spend money with you or not. I had a JEWISH PhD ask me what’s the difference between a Black Brain Surgeon and a N*GG*R and I said what, he said nothing! This was a man who was an ORTHODOX Jew-What did I do about it? I became better than he was on the techniques we were doing, when he asked me to teach him, I didn’t-I played crazy and said ohhhh it’s so haarrrd. I can hardly do it either-You know you have to be intelligent about such things, why call EEOC and Jesse Jackson and all those people-Just replace a few critical pages in that 50 million grant application with damning information to insure it won’t be approved!!!
i’m really enjoying reading these posts, but what i find interesting that a film like Borat can gross millions of dollars in this country alone and it was saturated with racial sterotypes and millions of people found it to be “hilarious” while i found it insensitive to every ethnic/minority/racial group out there while also seeing the humor in it as well. so i would like to know when is it ok to crack a “ethnic” joke and when is it not??? Maybe people should only crack jokes on the racial/minority group that they belong to then people will not be offended. I’ve definitely said things about others that I wish I could take back, but I can’t, all I can do is apologize and move on. Don’t be hypocrites, we have ALL done it, she was just stupid enough to say it on live TV.
Thank you #103–we’ve all been guilty of it. It’s like a man who has said he’s never been impotent for whatever reason. #101 I hope she does too. You comment was funny and I’m Jewish.
#90, your an idot you said
Jewish people DO have big noses, just like Asians have slanted eyes and flat noses.
**** you
NO NEED FOR THIS BEHAVIOR LAME.
Halle’s movie is still in 15th place according to Box Office Mojo. did halle call Page Six? The woman is in London for the London Film Festival.
105 LA : 10/23/2007 at 7:51 pm
#90, your an idot you said
Jewish people DO have big noses, just like Asians have slanted eyes and flat noses.
**** you
NO NEED FOR THIS BEHAVIOR LAME.
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Lmao I’m an “idot”? Why, because I’m saying something you don’t want to hear? And what behavior are you talking about? Qui being so sensitive.
Btw, Asian people DO have slanted eyes and flat noses, just like most Jews DO have big noses. No big deal. I’m not saying big noses are bad.
Though not all Jewish people have huge noses, it is safe to say that Ashkenazie Jews tend to have long noses.. Like Adrian Brody, Babs Streisand..
I don’t see the big deal, she wasn’t intentionally being mean. Bill O’Reilly was mean with what he said.. So was Imus..
To me, if the intent to be malicious is there, then fine..
I actually thought the nose looked like her real nose before her plastic surgery..
That nose looked like a black/Ashkenazie nose.. LOL
By the way Judaism is a religion. Though there has been a type of merging probably due to prosecution..
If she had said it is her black nose, I would still see nothing wrong!
This is unbelievable! Most of you are a bunch of rum-filled fruitcakes. Haters is all you are. Green with envy, jealous, ugly haters.
This story just gave you an avenue to vent your previously pent-up hatred for a lovely, intelligent woman who gets all the great breaks. She’s 41 and is still beautiful. She gets roles when many others don’t… Plus she’s got a beautiful, sexy, Canadian hunk in her life who has impregnated her with a wonderful bundle of joy.
Just stop it already. Your jealousy, hangups, racism and ugliness is sickening.
Give people an inch and they take a mile. She could have said nothing, but since she apologized, you are jumping down her throat. That’s true stupidity.
@ # 30,
Not all Jews are white! How many people make fun of whites and Asians? Halle wasn’t being malicious. It was a stupid comment, whereas Imus called Serena a monkey and the ballers nappy headed hos! A big difference in the intent!
What’s really scary is…the really bad English being used here. I’m no grammar queen, but when you say things like “i dont critic you” or “you dont hars it wars”…wtf? Come on people…
The US is really a place where there is a high prevalence of racial conflict due to racist and sexist historical events. It’s a shame that the effect of events that have occurred are lingering around. Give it about 75 more years if progress continues.
Oh yeah, Jews are cool. Palestinians are cool in my book too. It’s a shame that we can not have peace in the world…
Oh great, now everyone is going to overreact. Although why I can see why some might feel offended. When you poke fun of your own ethnicity, its funny. But when you do onto others, regardless of your relatives, people will find it prejudice.
Honestly, I don’t know what to make of it, so its best we leave it alone.
Agree much ado about nothing even coming from someone who’s Jewish. Halle apologized and the ADL (Anti Defamation League) accepts her apology. Let’s move on.
oops forgot the link:
http://www.radaronline.com/exclusives/2007/10/berrys-jew-joke-not-worth-a-plotz.php
How the hell do you overly sensitive whiners get through a normal day. You must be extremely neurotic, fragile and overly sensitive. And from what I can see also extremely judgmental without any sense of humor. Anyone who says anything that might offend your neurotic, sensitive little egos should be condemned and punished. LOL What a way to live!!! What a miserable bunch of people. I’m sure you’re such a pleasure and lots of fun to be around - but yes politically correct at all times. Get over yourselves already. Yes, a large percentage of white women have small flat asses, blacks do tend to have larger lips than whites and from this post Jews not only tend to have big noses but never stop whining. I did not say all but let’s face the facts as they really are. Usually people only get upset by a comment if it truly hits home. Now deal with it!!
They must have two airings and showed this cut on the West Coast b/c on the East Coast airing that I saw it showed her saying this. And there was no big deal made of it at all. The audience laughed b/c they laughed the whole time at the pics she was showing. I am not defending her and what she said, I am just surprised that I am finding out they actually went back and cut out part of it.
i have jewish friends that even make fun of their own noses, i dont think its a big deal what she said… but she should be more careful coz some ppl are very sensitive with comments like that.
And ppl who say she is ugly here, come on…. she is gorgoeous and thats undeniable
i used to think she was hot, now i view her as a complete piece of **** **** HALLE BERRY
*********** HALLE YOU ******* ***** YOU ******* IGNORANT STEREOTYPING *****–HER EXCUSE IS NOT EVEN PLAUSIBLE AND AT BEST MEANS THAT SHE HIRES IGNORANT MORONS LIKE HERSELF TO WORK FOR HER. I AM OF THE OPINION THAT SHE SIMPLY MADE UP THE EXCUSE AFTER THE FACT TO COVER HER PATHETIC ASS. HER CAREER IS BASED ON LOOKS, BUT NOW THAT WE SEE THE UGLY SOUL INSIDE SHE LOOKS UGLY
I’m jewish but I don’t find this offensive… it definitely wasnt a Mel Gibson - if you know what I mean. However, she is still going to get a lot of hate for it. She should know better… you just don’t say things like that.
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