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Published: 1/8/2008 2:40 PM
Last Modified: 1/8/2008 2:40 PM

Halle Berry

Naomi Watts, are you “Knocked Up?” Halle Berry, do you have a craving for pie like that gal in “Waitress?” Nicole Kidman, did you go all “Juno” on us?

I’ve never asked a question as crass as those, but I think I’ll remember 2007 as the year of the movie babies, both in some of the year’s best comedies and in the interviews that I conducted.

Last January, I spoke by telephone with Naomi Watts about her film “The Painted Veil,” and I had no reason to believe she was pregnant – nor any inclination to ask such an off-the-wall question.

But it turns out that she was, and baby Alexander was delivered to the first-time mother and the father, actor Liev Schreiber.

Last March, I talked with Halle Berry in Dallas, and the subject of rugrats didn’t come up. Soon after, she announced she was pregnant and is expecting her first child. Who knew?

In November, I saw Nicole Kidman in New York City, and she spoke about hubby Keith Urban and how much she’s enjoying her new marriage and her two children she adopted with Tom Cruise.

Nicole didn’t mention that she was going to be a birth mommy for the first time because she likely didn’t know it at the time; she just announced this week that she’s expecting her own little bundle of joy.

I never saw myself as the kind of icky journalist who would include such an inquiry in my interviewing repertoire, but it’s almost as if some sort of weird precedent has been set.

Hey, listen, I spoke last year with Naomi, Halle and Nicole and they all turned out to be, you know, so I was just wondering, you know, if you are, you know….

Just watch: My next celebrity interview will be with Lauren Bacall or Angela Lansbury.

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“I was born a poor, black child” … not me, actually, but Steve Martin’s character in the “The Jerk.” That absurd opening line is just one of the absurd number of film facts, quotes and minutiae contained in movie critic Michael Smith’s brain, at his disposal to toss out on a moment’s notice. It’s a key requirement as Tulsa World film critic to know these things. Michael learned a few other life facts along the way (seven years as a Crystal’s Pizza & Spaghetti manager) before attempting journalism and joining the Tulsa World in 1996, where he’s covered everything from a school shooting in Fort Gibson to a tornado in Stroud to witnessing an execution. A little community theater coverage was sprinkled in there, too. Movies engender many of his happiest memories, from standing in line for “Star Wars” and “Grease” at the Southroads Cinema to the James Bond and Pink Panther movies that always premiered at the enormous Continental Theater.

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