Sounds Like Stone Was Always Ahead Of Her Age
That Sharon Stone must have been quite the teen temptress, huh? Not so, the Academy Award nominee for best actress in “Casino” said on the “Extra” television show Thursday.
“When I was 15 I went to college half a day while I went to high school, and I tutored algebra to other kids in my high school,” Stone said. “So I never got to be on a peer level relationship with the kids I went to school with.
“I was like, you know, that weird girl. I cannot believe I did not know that I was a pretty girl. I was so insecure and so intimidated and so introverted.”
And you won’t see Stone at her high school reunions: “I don’t get to be one of the gang at an event like that. I feel like an ostrich in a trailer park. I’m a little, you know, strange.”
Loose talk
Susan Sarandon, up for a best actress Oscar for her role as a nun in “Dead Man Walking,” on her chances: “I’m just happy I’m not nominated with any pigs.” His finest hour? Has to be midnight, cowboy
John Schlesinger turns 70 today.
The ‘Sense’ part came much later in life
Emma Thompson, yet another best actress contender for “Sense and Sensibility,” tells Vanity Fair magazine how she once shaved her head: “I was 20, at Cambridge, and was living in a house with my mates. We all got stoned one afternoon. They said that I’d look just like Nefertiti with no hair. So we just shaved all my hair off.”
Before it was over, her head was spinning
The aforementioned Susan Sarandon reverted to past personas in accepting Harvard’s Hasty Pudding Award, whacking a baseball into the crowd a la “Bull Durham” and doing the Time Warp from “The Rocky Horror Picture Show.” Said Sarandon: “This has exorcised every ounce of nun I had left in me.”
So Val doesn’t want to be Batman forever?
Val Kilmer is reportedly balking at reprising his role as the Caped Crusader in the upcoming “Batman and Robin.” While negotiations continue, producers are pondering the possibility of replacing him with “ER” heartthrob George Clooney.
Sounds like Max must be quite the babe
Clooney, who was married for three years to actress Talia Shire, told “Extra” that his only current relationship is with his 300-pound pet pig, Max. “But I’m not at liberty to talk about myself and the pig and our arrangement,” he added.
Must be the emotional pull of a pig tale
“Babe” producer George Miller remembers wondering whether the Oscar-nominated film would ever work: “We used an amalgam of 48 pigs. Each one could only be filmed for three weeks, otherwise he would change too much. And it took 13 weeks to train them … I don’t think any of us imagined at the time this would have this kind of resonance.”
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