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She’d like to thank all the nasty little people …


Halle Berry
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HOISTING HER ACADEMY AWARD in one hand and newly won Razzie in the other, Halle Berry reveled in a career low point. Berry was named worst actress for the action bomb “Catwoman” at Saturday’s 25th annual Razzies, an Oscar spoof that trashes Hollywood’s worst.

“Catwoman” also “won” for worst film, director and screenplay.

Other awards went to President Bush for worst actor, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for worst supporting actor and Britney Spears for worst supporting actress in Michael Moore‘s “Fahrenheit 9/11.”

Berry was the first actor to accept a Razzie in person since Tom Green did so for 2001’s “Freddy Got Fingered.”

“When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there’s no way you could be a good winner,” she said.

However, she added: “I hope to God I never see these people again!”

Well, how about Rush?

Actress Holly Robinson Peete, pregnant with her fourth child, was partying at a pre-Oscar bash last week when she went into labor.

The 40-year-old actress, married to Carolina Panthers quarterback Rodney Peete, gave birth to a boy early Friday and was doing “great,” her publicist said.

The couple had not named the child, but were looking for a name starting with “R.” Their other children are 7-year-old fraternal twins Rodney Jr. and Ryan (a girl), and 2-year-old Robinson.

Lock, stalk and no contest

A woman has pleaded no contest to stalking and threatening actress Catherine Zeta-Jones.

Dawnette Knight entered the plea Friday to one felony count of stalking and three felony counts of making criminal threats. She faces up to five years in prison.

Knight, 33, was accused of sending threatening and violent letters to acquaintances of the actress, including her agent and her husband, actor Michael Douglas, whom Knight said she was in love with.

But which is a better career move?

After failing drug tests seven times in February alone, actor Tom Sizemore faces up to 4 1/2 years behind bars for violating probation on a 2003 domestic violence conviction involving his ex-girlfriend, former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss.

Sizemore, 43, also could face two years for possessing methamphetamine if he declines drug treatment.

“There are two ways for you to go,” a judge warned him. “One is to recover. The other is to die.”

Chong goes up in smoke again

The “Vagina Monologues” parody “The Marijuana-Logues” has canceled its spring tour after Tommy Chong was barred from performing in it because audience members were lighting up during the show.

Chong, 65, half of the comedy team Cheech & Chong, was in danger of violating his probation, which bars him from being around people using or selling illegal substances. He served nine months in prison last year for conspiring to sell drug paraphernalia.

The birthday bunch

Actor Robert Clary (“Hogan’s Heroes”) is 79. Singer Harry Belafonte is 78. Actor Robert Conrad is 70. Singer Roger Daltrey is 61. Actor Alan Thicke (“Growing Pains”) is 58. Actor-director Ron Howard is 51. Actress Catherine Bach (“The Dukes of Hazzard”) is 51. Actor Tim Daly (“Wings”) is 49. Actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar (“NYPD Blue,” “Saved by the Bell”) is 31.