Friday Homestretch/AFTP

Today’s Homestretch is a tad early and a little brief because I am rushing off to catch a flight to Southern Ireland to pick up Zah.

A Couple of Reminders- Tune in tonight (Friday) to the Paramount Network to watch Matt Mitrione take on Ryan Bader in Bellator 207 at 9 PM… Matt was nice enough to sit for an hour-long interview with me and Clem earlier this week.  You can hear that interview on the Podfathers podcast on iTunes.

Tomorrow (or Saturday, for those who don’t know how days work) in National No Bra Day  (. )( .)… An annual event celebrated globally involving woman choosing not to wear a bra for the day to help raise awareness of breast cancer.

As if I needed another reason to show an inappropriate GIF…

This week’s Ass From The Past is African-American… Kinda.

It seems when people are asked who is the most beautiful black woman in the world, this particular lady’s name immediately and most often springs to mind even though she is half-white… But if people are willing to overlook that, then who am I to judge?

This week’s BAFTP is Halle Berry…

The first and only “black” woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress for her roll in Monster’s Ball, acting alongside the infinitely creepy Billy-Bob Thornton, and the extremely dead Heath Ledger.

Here’s the skinny on Berry… She just turned 52.  She has been married 3 times, including a 4-year stint with former MLB star David Justice.  Originally from Cleveland, OH, she now lives in LA with her 2 children.  Her dad was an African-American hospital attendant who used to beat the shit out of her German/English mother.  Her parents split when she was 4 years old, and she hasn’t seen her piece of shit dad since then.

Staying on the topic of domestic abuse, Berry said a former boyfriend once hit in the head so hard… “HOW HARD WAS IT!”… She was hit in the head by a former boyfriend so hard it blew out her eardrum.  That boyfriend was alleged to be either Justice (before they were married) or Wesley Snipes.

In 1989, she moved to New York to pursue an acting career, and was so terrible at it she ran out of money within weeks and had to temporarily live in a homeless shelter and then in a YMCA.  Which goes to show you… If you’re a young man looking for a soulmate in NYC, maybe give up the idea of meeting that certain someone either online or perhaps at a bar, and start trolling the homeless shelters for hidden gems doing yoga

I assume her most recognizable roles were either as the weather-controlling mutant, Storm in the X-Men franchise, or as Bond girl Giacinta ‘Jinx’ Johnson in the 2002 film Die Another Day, where Berry recreated a scene from Dr. No, emerging from the surf to be greeted by James Bond as Ursula Andress had 40 years earlier.

More importantly, in 2001, Berry appeared in the film Swordfish, which featured her first topless scene. At first, she refused to dump them out, but quickly changed her mind when Warner Brothers raised her salary substantially. The brief flash of her breasts added $500,000 to her fee.

I can’t show that scene for some insane reason.  But I can show this one, and we can all wonder where the wire taped to her thigh ends.

So that’s it… Halle Berry is the newest AFTP, and I hope she has taught you all a lesson: You can’t put a price on love, but you CAN put a price on nudity, and that price is apparently $250,000 per tit.

Good weekend, everyone.

Take a report.

-Large