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Wondertrash Entertainment Trivia: 40 is the new HOT!

More on the woman you can't get enough of, Halle Berry:

Halle played a character called "Sharon Stone" in The Flintstones. Ten years later she appeared with the real Sharon Stone in Catwoman.

Halle's mother is from Liverpool, and through her maternal grandmother is distantly related to the Baronets Beresford, Viscounts of Tyrone, Earls of Tyrone and Marquesses of Waterford, to Barons Decies and to Baron Beresford, and to the Marquess of Campo-Maior Count of Trancoso in Portugal.

Is named after the grand old Halle Building in Cleveland, Ohio, which originally housed the Halle Brothers department store. The building is now an office building and the fictional setting for the Winfred-Louder department store on "The Drew Carey Show".

Halle has at least 4 film projects in the works, so you should be seeing a lot more of her in the next 5 years. Plus, she is busy learning French, the native language of her partner Gabriel Aubry. So who's to say whether or not dual citizenship might be in her future.

With the British/dept store connection, what do you wanna bet that she's a fan of Are You Being Served?

Well if Halle ever wants to take my inside leg, it's all hers. Incidentally Halle was born in the same hospital as her heroine Dorothy Dandridge. Dandridge's experiences were pretty common for black performers of her era. Sammy Davis jr experienced even more extreme discrimination. While Dandridge was allowed to stay in the 'white only' hotels (though forbidden from using the pool, lest other patrons catch black off of her via some kind of contagion), Sammy Davis was not allowed to stay in the Vegas hotels where he performed. At the end of his shows, he'd wait by the back door for the taxi, which would bring him to his room on the other side of town. Later Davis would refuse to play venues that practiced segration, and was personally responsible for integrating Miami Beach nightclubs and Las Vegas, Nevada casinos.

Sammy Davis didn't often speak of 'the struggle', but he did talk about starting the day with an 'eye opener'. By his later years he had become chronically alcoholic. Like his fellow Rat Packers, his outward joie de vive masked an inner melancholy. Also, like his fellow Rat Packers, he created a place for himself in a world that was often less than supportive.