Payne was arrested Friday for removing the tags from a $1,300 Burberry trench coat at a Costa Mesa, Calif., Saks Fifth Avenue and walking out without paying, according to police.

The subject of the film Who is Doris Payne?, the West Virginia native has a rap sheet at least six feet long, and is known for her lifelong career pilfering diamond rings from jewelry stores from Las Vegas to New York, and Paris to Tokyo.

Payne, who was out on parole at the time of her arrest, is currently in custody without bail for a probation violation.

Haiti’s devastation was a uniting cause during the telethon, one that especially touched the hearts of Halle Berry and Taraji P. Henson, who answered phones.

“I want to do every single thing I can do that can help,” said Berry, who also made a plea for donations during the show. “Haiti can’t have enough money at this point. … If you’ve given, give again. If you’re ambivalent, open your heart.”

Henson echoed Berry’s conviction.

“I can’t express how important it is to continue to donate,” the “Curious Case of Benjamin Button” actress said. “Imagine wherever you live, waking up, and it’s turned to rubbish. Even if you think you’ve done enough, you can never do enough. Just put your loved ones’ faces on the faces of the people of Haiti.”

“Thanks so much for giving to give and care about the children and families of Haiti,” Berry said to those who donated during Friday’s telethon. “It is the best money you’ll give in 2010, mark my words.”

And, there will be performances from Sting, Keith Urban, Jennifer Hudson, Dave Matthews, Taylor Swift, Bono, Shakira and many, many others.

Sure, the entertainment is the draw. But, George Clooney, who has put this event together, says he hopes people will give whatever they can. He says “it can be anything. It can be five bucks.”

All the performances will be for sale on iTunes tomorrow, to add to the fund-raising. The Web site, www.HopeForHaitiNow.org, will be up by 12noon Eastern time today to taken donations.

The telethon will air on nearly every broadcast station and about 24 cable stations. It all starts tonight on NBC 24 beginning at 8 o’clock.

The “Monster’s Ball” star was awaiting to go through security checks with her partner Gabriel Aubry and their 22-month-old daughter Nahla, when the male model asked a cop to help speed up the process.

The pair was swept past customers and hurried through security, much to the annoyance of travelers who had been waiting in the line for over an hour. Now, Montreal police inspector Jimmy Cacchione – who is in charge of the airport’s police has chastised the officer in question for giving Berry special treatment and has vowed never to let it happen again.

He tells Access Hollywood, “The (boyfriend) of Ms Berry asked if they could go faster through the line because they were late and they had the baby. The officer took the personal initiative to allow them to go through the line faster, but that’s not something the Montreal police supports.”

Halle Berry has launched Pure Orchid, her second fragrance for women:

Beauty blooms within. A seductive, sensual experience awaits you with Halle Pure Orchid, the floral, woody fragrance from Halle Berry.

The notes for Pure Orchid include jungle cactus flower, lemon, blackberry creme, star anise, masdevallia orchid, giant sequoia and patchouli.

Halle Berry Pure Orchid is available in 15 ml Eau de Parfum, $16, and I’ll update when more sizes become available. It can be found now at Walmart. (via walmart, with many thanks to APassionateJourney for the tip!)

Is a People’s Choice Award enough, or does it have to be an Oscar?

In case you were stuck in an airport lineup yourself yesterday and haven’t yet heard, Oscar-winning actor Halle Berry and her model husband were spotted on Monday jumping a U.S. Customs queue at Trudeau international airport – with the help of a Montreal Police officer.

While others waited more than an hour in line – stomachs grumbling for breakfast, babies screaming to high heaven – the A-list couple were whisked with their 22-month-old daughter right through to the comfort of their executive class seats on an Air Canada plane to Los Angeles.

Aéroports de Montréal, which manages the airport, says it doesn’t give preferential treatment to anyone – in most cases they’re not even notified when a VIP comes through the sliding doors.

Air Canada said it doesn’t differentiate based on celebrity, either, but rather according to fares.

As executive class passengers, Berry and her partner, Montreal-born Gabriel Aubry, were entitled to priority lines through check-in, boarding and security, said Air Canada spokesperson Isabelle Arthur.

“It’s a question of the passenger who buys the ticket,” Arthur said. “The fare they’ve paid entitles them to a different level of service. … Go online and see the difference in price.”

Indeed, if they were to book their tickets today to travel on Monday in executive class, Berry and Aubry would each pay $3,373 for a direct flight to L.A., compared with $216 to fly through Chicago in economy.

Certainly $3,000 should pay for a seat in the Maple Leaf Lounge, and maybe even a meal on board.

But should your fare really determine how long it takes to get through customs or security – where everyone must expose themselves for the greater good?

Mathieu Larocque, a spokesperson for the Canadian Air Transport Security Authority, said CATSA’s job only begins when you get to the X-ray scanners and pat-downs.

“How they get to our door is not our responsibility,” he said.

Berry and Aubry were properly “processed” through security, Larocque added.

As it turned out, it was a lone police officer acting on his own initiative – and against police policy – who helped Berry and her family skip to the front of the U.S. Customs line.

Montreal Police Inspector Jimmy Cacchione, who heads the 36-member unit that patrols the Montreal airport – and particularly since 9/11 the U.S. departures area – said the officer was approached by Aubry and made a spur-of-the-moment decision to help them.

The Montreal police don’t pick favourites, however, said Cacchione, and it was bad timing on the officer’s part, so soon after new security measures have meant even longer lines for regular folk.

After a Montreal journalist, Marie-Eve Paradis, who happened to be on the same flight, wrote about the experience on her blog, it’s understandable why people would be upset, Cacchione said.

Paradis, who waited her turn in the customs line, was then berated by an Air Canada employee for being late to board the flight.

As for Berry, with a 22-month-old in her arms, she could have just asked an Air Canada employee for a free pass – whatever fare she paid – and probably would have got it.

A survey has found that a fuller, curvy figures such as those belonging to Kate Winslet or Kelly Brook are back in fashion among women.

Meanwhile, skeletal stars such as Victoria Beckham and Kate Moss have fallen out of favour, along with the surgically enhanced figure of Katie Price, aka glamour model Jordan.

Oscar winner Miss Winslet, 34 – who served sausages and mash at her first wedding and has spoken openly of the effects of motherhood on her body – topped the poll of 2,000 woman aged 18 or over, with 16 per cent of the votes.

Miss Brook received 15 per cent, while actress Halle Berry, who has an hour-glass figure, was third with 12 per cent.

Beckham, Moss and Price were in equal last place, having received just one per cent of the votes.
Other women included in the list of ten celebrity figures included X Factor judge Cheryl Cole, actress Megan Fox and singer Lily Allen.

Dr Jacquie Lavin, head of nutrition at Slimming World, which commissioned the YouGov poll, said: ‘It shows a positive shift that women are more likely to see Kate Winslet and Kelly Brook as the ideal body shape rather than Kate Moss or Victoria Beckham.

‘It perhaps suggests that it is not being “skinny” that is most important to them anymore, it is being healthy.

‘However, there still remains a great deal of pressure on women to conform to an unrealistic ideal and our survey showed that a massive 85 per cent of women are at least occasionally unhappy with their weight.’

Former Casualty actress Rebecca Wheatley, who last month won Slimming World’s Woman of the Year award after shedding more than 12 stone, said she also believed the results revealed a change in women’s perception of what is attractive.

‘It’s fantastic to see that finally women seem to be aspiring towards a healthy body shape that is realistic and achievable,’ she added.

‘Kate Winslet has always spoken out about the importance of accepting your body. After all, healthy women come in all sizes.

‘It is definitely a step forward that, rather than persuading women to set their sights on being super thin which can lead to misery when they fail to achieve their target, more celebrities are encouraging inner confidence and a positive body image and showing women how they can be happy with their shape.’

In July, another survey found women shunning the boyish shape of stick-thin celebrities.

Domestic goddess Nigella Lawson’s classic hourglass figure topped the Special K breakfast cereal poll of most inspiring female figures, followed by Dame Helen Mirren and Dame Judi Dench.

Just over a third of respondents described themselves as ‘apple-shaped’ with an undefined waistline, a quarter said they were pear-shaped with a big bottom, and 13 per cent said they had an hourglass figure.

THE MOST DESIRABLE CELEBRITY BODIES

The percentage of women polled that aspire to each celebrity’s body shape.

1.  Kate Winslet – 16 per cent

2.  Kelly Brook – 15 per cent

3.  Halle Berry – 12 per cent

4.  Cheryl Cole – 10 per cent

5.  Beyonce – six per cent

6.  Megan Fox – Five per cent

7.  Lily Allen – Four per cent

8.  Keeley Hazell – Two per cent

9.  Kate Moss – One per cent

9. Katie Price – One per cent

9. Victoria Beckham – One per cent

Halle Berry won a Golden Globe for her role in 1999 TV movie “Introducing Dorothy Dandridge”. She was also nominated for Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture in 2001 movie “Monster’s Ball”, and was up for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or a Motion Picture Made for Television in 2005 TV movie “Their Eyes Were Watching God”.

As for Colin Farrell, his portrayal as Ray in movie “In Bruges” earned him a trophy at 2008 Golden Globes. At that time, he took home Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture (Comedy or Musical) title.

Joining Halle and Colin to hand out awards at the annual event are previously-announced presenters Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, Mickey Rourke, Matthew Fox, Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro. While Leo and Robert are slated to present the Cecil B. DeMille Award to director Martin Scorsese, the other stars will present awards from individual categories.

The next Golden Globe Awards will be held on January 17 at Beverly Hilton and aired live on NBC at 8/7c. Taking the duty as a host will be Ricky Gervais.

Yet, standing in the hallway at a battered woman’s shelter, cracking jokes with wary children, Berry said this was where she belonged — exorcising the ghosts of violent men who haunt the star of Die Another Day and X-Men.

The 43-year-old actress has been a low-key volunteer on the night shift at the Jenesse centre in Los Angeles for years but has only now chosen to reveal this part of her life, discussing for the first time how her father beat her mother and how she escaped her own abusive relationships.

She hopes the publicity will help the six shelters run by Jenesse overcome the financial stresses of the economic downturn. In the past Berry has refused to talk about the beatings meted out to her mother by her father, Jerome Jesse Berry, who left her family in Cleveland, Ohio, when she was four. But she has said a boyfriend once hit her so hard she is still largely deaf in her left ear.

Last week, accepting a “leadership” award in Hollywood, Berry said she and her elder sister, Heidi, were still recovering from witnessing the violence inflicted on their mother, Judith, a retired nurse who was born in Liverpool.

“I saw my mother battered, and could not do anything to stop it,” she said. “My father was tyrannical, lashing out at her for no reason. I felt the effects that had on our family — I’ve experienced what these women have gone through.”

She said her mother was still working out why she took it for so many years. “That is a deep question, and I am not sure she will ever come up with one answer. I have one answer to anyone in a similar situation — get out.”

Berry never forgave her father, a hospital porter, even as he lay dying with Parkinson’s disease in 2003. He sold his account of their estrangement to a tabloid “for a pack of beer and cigarettes”, Berry said.

She wondered if her parents’ relationship had affected her past romances.

She said: “I never had to run to a shelter, but I did choose the wrong partners. Not always good men. Luckily, in recent years, I have been smart enough to hit the door when violence even becomes a possibility. That is something I will not tolerate.”

After two marriages she feels more settled with her boyfriend, the Versace model Gabriel Aubry, and their 20-month-old baby girl, Nahla.

A former resident of the shelter said she did not realise the woman she called Halle Baby, who told silly jokes to her children, was a film star.

Berry bought the Benedict Canyon Drive property for 1.4 million pounds eight years ago, when she married singer Eric Benet, reports The Daily Star

However, according to RealEstalker.com, she has put the property up for sale at 3.1 million pounds. The property features two bedrooms, two bathrooms, landscaped gardens and stone spa.

The home also comes with vaulted heavy wood-beamed ceilings, wood floors, fireplaces, a dramatic staircase and a gourmet cook’s kitchen.