– Though she has several projects in the pipeline, Halle Berry has been absent from the big screen for a few years. Her last movie was 2007’s largely unnoticed, yet well-reviewed Things We Lost In The Fire, from Danish director Susanne Bier (Brodre). Berry played a grieving widow drawn to her late husband’s drug addict friend, played sympathetically by Benicio del Toro.
Now, Berry will star in an adaptation of Beth Harbison’s bestselling novel Shoe Addicts Anonymous, reports Deadline. This is an addiction comedy, not drama, and it screams chick flick. The other three female shoe addicts are yet to be cast. Berry hasn’t done comedy since Bulworth, but with a script from the writers of How To Lose A Guy In 10 Days, Kristen Buckley & Brian Regan, there is promise. After this detour into comedy, Berry will star on Broadway in The Mountaintop, to be directed by Fences‘ Kenny Leon.
– GQ grabbed a rare Bill Murray interview. In the past ten years he’s given four. Dan Fierman writes at the Murray-determined end of the interview: “Bill Murray doesn’t need you to be in on his joke. His life is all one performance-art piece—and he does everything for an audience of one.”
This summer he’ll have a larger audience for Aaron Schneider’s indie pic Get Low, in which he plays a wry operator out of his league with an aging Robert Duvall. In GQ Murray talks about his infamous 800 number; “I don’t want to have a relationship with someone if I’m not going to work with them. If you’re talking about business, let’s talk about business, but I don’t want to hang out and bullshit”; his several retirements – “people will actually believe that you’ve retired“; on what he’ll do if Ghostbusters 3 doesn’t happen – a Mitch Glazer screenplay with Mickey Rourke that is “such a long shot.” Adds Murray: “I live to go down with those guys that have no fuckin’ chance. It’s like that Tim Robbins movie I did. What was it called?”
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