A Serious Sharon Wants To Keep Her Body Clothed
Acknowledging the pull of time, Sharon Stone has decided not to pose nude anymore.
Unless the right script comes along.
“If somebody says to me the movie is going to make $5 million if you take off your clothes, I am probably not going to do it,” Stone told the syndicated television show “Extra.”
Say, however, the script was directed by - well, Martin Scorsese, perhaps. Or stood to make maybe $100 million. What then? “If it has a value that I can comprehend, then I probably would,” said the 37-year-old Stone. “But the sooner the better because I am not getting any younger.”
By the way, she’s still shocked that she was cast in the death-penalty drama “Last Dance,” which opens today. “I never get scripts like this,” she said. “They must have confused my mail with someone else.”
Loose talk
Jane Fonda on the need “to create a new cultural norm” (as reported by the Associated Press): (It’s) “a norm that will say, ‘It’s cool to stay in school, it’s really great to stay healthy and work out and not get AIDS and sexually transmitted diseases. It’s really manly to be caring and considerate and not coercive.”’
And it sure was a shock to the monkey
Peter Gabriel turns 46 today.
We’re shocked to have to put this in a family newspaper
According to the National Enquirer, two weeks ago Marla Maples Trump was: 1) discovered by the cops on a Flordia beach, 2) at 4 a.m., 3) all “sandy and rumpled” and 4) with a lifeguard. Husband Donald Trump calls it “a bunch of garbage.” Maples Trump says, “Our life is so full of love. I don’t have time for this.” And the lifeguard, Spencer Wagner, 34, says it’s just “typical Enquirer bull.” The Enquirer, presumably, stands by its fanta… er, story.
Why not just a bathrobe and bunny slippers?
Whitney Houston says she’s excited about serving as host of this year’s “Kids’ Choice Awards” on Nickelodeon. “For once I can just not worry about satisfying everyone’s expectations,” she told TV Guide. “I can just wear jeans and sneakers and no one will tee off on my wardrobe.”
Funny, Northwestern doesn’t resemble a windmill at all
If you’ve ever wondered at the bizarre qualities inherent in the novels of Joyce Carol Oates, then you might better understand the author’s recent remarks about Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski. “I think of him as a misguided, very quixotic romantic figure of another era,” she told the New York Observer. “It’s not that I’m sympathetic. I just feel I understand him.”
And, you know, nothing’s worse than a fake Brit-royal
The Duchess of York impressed the folks in Oklahoma City when she placed a wreath at the site of the bombed-out federal building. “You could tell she was genuine,” said building site manager Richard Williams.
If you have to pick a reason, they make a good one
“E.R.” star Noah Wylie gushes about women. “I love them, I love them to pieces, they’re fantastic, they’re great,” he said on television’s “Entertainment Tonight.” “Women are the only reason I’m not gay.”
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