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Some high points from the NYT review:
"Acting always involves a degree of self-abasement, but just watching trash like this is degrading."
"Ms. Stone has famously denied having plastic surgery, and maybe that's true, but, man, does she look weird here."
"...two hours of drift and sludge. The camp pleasures fleetingly promised by the crazy opener and the first few minutes of Ms. Stone's vamping soon give way to boredom and time to contemplate, yet once more, just how brutal it is to be an actress in Hollywood."
― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Friday, 31 March 2006 04:48 (twenty years ago)
two years pass...
Hollywood actress Sharon Stone has suggested that the Chinese earthquake which claimed tens of thousands of lives may be “karma”.
The Basic Instinct star believes the disaster may be payback for China’s policy towards the Tibetans.
She made her comments during a red carpet interview in Cannes last week, a video of which has just surfaced on YouTube.
Asked if she had heard about the situation in China, Stone replied: “Of course. You know, it was very interesting because at first I am not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans, because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else, and so I have been very concerned about how to think and what to do about that because I don’t like that.
“Then I have been concerned about, oh, how shall we deal with the Olympics? Because they are not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a good friend of mine.
“And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened and I thought, 'Is that karma, when you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?’”
Stone, 50, said her attitude softened after she received a letter from a Tibetan charity which planned to launch a relief programme for victims of the earthquake.
“They wanted to go and be helpful, and that made me cry,” she said. “It was a big lesson to me that sometimes you have to learn to put your head down and be of service even to people who aren’t nice to you.”
Outraged Chinese citizens have already begun posting their responses on YouTube and calling for Stone to apologise. One young man says: “Why can’t we put the debate about the Chinese government away and just think that people died? When I watched her video I was very upset about her opinion. She is a good lady, she is beautiful and she works for the world, for everybody who needs help. But this time I can’t accept her opinion. Sharon Stone should say sorry to the people who died in the earthquake. I just want to get everybody’s attention and let her know her opinion is wrong.”
This is not the first time that Stone has offered her opinion on world affairs.
Earlier this year, the star of Catwoman spoke out about the war in Iraq.
“I feel at great pain when the spotlight is on the death of 4,000 American soldiers, while 600,000 Iraqi deaths are ignored,” she told an Arab newspaper. “War is not a movie, it is a tragedy of dead bodies, victims, the disabled, orphans, widows and the displaced.”
In 2006, she embarked on a peace mission to Israel. At a press conference with Shimon Peres, the former Israeli Prime Minister, she announced: “I would kiss just about anybody for peace in the Middle East,” before discussing her nude scenes in Basic Instinct 2.
― Dom Passantino, Tuesday, 27 May 2008 19:12 (eighteen years ago)
nine years pass...