Roberts Named Oscars' Most Stylish
Julia Roberts has been named the Best-Dressed Oscar winner in a new online poll. The actress' look at the 2000 Academy Awards, where she was named Best Actress for her portrayal of Erin Brockovich, gave her the style edge over Halle Berry in Parade.com's Oscar Survey Spectacular. Roberts scooped up 25 percent of the vote with Berry's 2001 outfit trailing close behind with 24 percent. Hilary Swank came in third for her 2004 Million Dollar Baby outfit. Parade.com's in depth online survey also named Roberts' Pretty Woman co-star Richard Gere and Sandra Bullock as the Favorite Actor and Actress Never Nominated for an Oscar. Meanwhile, Sally Field's "You really like me!" speech was voted Oscars' most memorable. And, in a look back at the favorite Oscar-winning films of each decade, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest claimed the 1970s prize, Rain Man was voted the Favorite Oscar Winner of the 1980s, Forrest Gump beat Titanic for the 1990s honor, and The Lord Of The Rings The Return Of The King was named the Favorite Film of the new century so far.
------------------------Roberts Confronts Paparazzo
Erin Brockovich actress Julia Roberts lost her temper with a paparazzo recently when she ordered him to stop attempting to take pictures of her young children. The mother-of-three was driving her two-year-old twins Hazel and Phinnaeus in Los Angeles on Wednesday, when she decided to confront an overzealous snapper, reports Tmz.com. Taking advice from her Ocean's Eleven co-star George Clooney, Roberts honked the horn of her Mercedes-Benz sports utility vehicle and forced the photographer to pull over before storming over to scold the shocked paparazzo. An enraged Roberts told the cameraman, "Listen, you can turn your video camera off. You're at a school where children go. Turn it off." Earlier this month, a videotape of Clooney angrily confronting two photographers for driving dangerously surfaced online.
----------------------------Julia Roberts Hates "Grotesque" Showbiz Industry
Actress Julia Roberts has slammed celebrity-obsessed Hollywood, branding the frenzy surrounding young stars "grotesque." The 40-year-old Erin Brockovich star is disgusted by the current state of the entertainment industry - and insists she would have avoided the business altogether if it had been as cut-throat when she began her career in the late 1980s. She says, "I think it's just grotesque. It's like a circus sideshow. I don't know why anybody would even want to go into show business these days, with all of the different magazines and shows. It just wouldn't be worth it." And she admits actors thrust into the Hollywood limelight in their teens suffer from today increased media interest in celebrity. She adds, "It's too fast. Before, you could build a career over years and many movies. Now it's like you do one good movie and they throw a ton of money at you and a ton of attention at you. You're being constructed outside of yourself before you even know who you are, and what you are, and how you want to do it, and why you want to do it."