BERRY BEATEN TO THE TULIA PUNCH

Halle Berry is facing competition from Oscar-nominated actress Alfre
Woodard - after both stars signed up to headline rival movies based on
an infamous 1999 drug bust. Berry, who won an Academy Award for her
role in Monster's Ball, will play a real-life lawyer in Tulia, based
on an incident in Texas when officials arrested 10 per cent of the
black population and found neither narcotics nor cash.

But Berry's movie isn't due to start shooting for another two
years.

Meanwhile, Woodard is being lined up to star in CBS TV movie Tulia,
Texas in which she'll play mother Mattie White, who saw four of her
children arrested.