So now they've got it set in London with a British actor I've never heard of playing opposite her. The reviews have not been kind, but at least a couple hint at the guilty pleasure of camp. Some have even tried holding it up to the yardstick of Showgirls, if you can believe how far we've come.
Word is the studio felt like the critics and weren't planning to spend a gargantuan amount on marketing or promotion. They didn't count on Ms. Stone taking to the road on her own with her own little entourage, through Europe and, with now infamously daffy results, Israel.
God bless her, interest in the film went through the roof, and if it manages to dig out from its 10% Rotten Tomatoes rating and do over $10 million this weekend, she owns the miracle.
The way she won Stewart, who had mercilessly ridiculed the video footage of her in Israel mainly just by broadcasting it, was to show up dressed terrifically (as opposed to when she recently was scary fugly), giggle to the funny guy host just like every other starlet on every other talk show (and as usual on Stewart as well), but then she disarms him with some very funny rejoinders. It seems that she knows her image, she knows this movie, she's having a blast doing exactly what she wants.
I'll see about posting a link to the interview if they put it up on the show's website (usually a day or two after airing), but the best part is when she stops Stewart, who's stumbling ever so slightly when about to ask some who-cares question about the movie, dead in his tracks. "Spit it out, sweetie," is all it takes and he's speechless, and I was laughing harder than at anything on TV in weeks. Since the last episode of Beauty & the Geek.
Sharon is our post-modern Tallulah, a grown-up sexual woman, but this time without the drinking or nicotine. At 48 years old she's staking out final claim as the sex symbol of her generation. In an age where Hollywood offers fewer and fewer meaningful roles for women, especially as they age, I have to give her credit for essentially subverting the system with those particularly cruel cards set against her.
At least until the weekend grosses come in, she's got the world on a string. Maybe, just maybe, (if you'll ever forgive the pun) Ms. Sharon Stone is crazy like a fox.
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Merits a review of the greatest awful occurence in zoo history since 1) Life of Pi and 2 ) "He's biting me hard"
Stone really know how to tell a hubby "I love you":
Chronicle editor bitten at L.A. zoo
Komodo dragon attacks Bronstein
- Tyche Hendricks, Chronicle Staff Report
Sunday, June 10, 2001
Chronicle executive editor Phil Bronstein was attacked by a Komodo dragon at the Los Angeles Zoo yesterday, suffering a serious foot injury.
Bronstein was in stable condition at a Los Angeles area hospital last night after surgery to reattach severed tendons and rebuild the casing of his big toe, which was crushed by the dragon's jaws, said his wife, actress Sharon Stone.
Bronstein and a zookeeper were inside the cage of the dragon, a 10-foot- long rare Indonesian lizard, on a behind-the-scenes tour of the zoo when the creature attacked.
Bronstein was shoeless at the time of the attack, he told The Chronicle. He had been wearing white tennis shoes but because the dragon is fed white rats, the zookeeper suggested Bronstein remove his shoes so the dragon didn't mistake them for its next meal, he said.
The dragon, which has serrated teeth designed for ripping flesh, clamped down on Bronstein's foot and thrashed its body around, said Stone, who was watching from outside the cage.
Bronstein reached down and grabbed the jaws of the reptile and pried them open, she said, before he struggled to escape through the small feeding door of the cage, while the zookeeper fended the dragon off.
Because the dragon's teeth harbor several strains of septic bacteria, Bronstein was treated with antibiotics and will be monitored for possible infection. The dragon has been quarantined.
"We're very grateful for the professional care of the people at the hospital," said Stone. "And we certainly don't blame the people at the zoo."
The tour was a surprise early father's day gift for Bronstein, who had always wanted to see an endangered Komodo dragon up close, Stone said.
The dragons feed on small mammals in the wild and are aggressive by nature, said Los Angeles Zoo spokeswoman Lora LaMarca, although this particular creature was known for a milder temperament.
The zoo owns two Komodo dragons, which were confiscated from reptile smugglers, said La Marca.
Komodo dragons are reportedly worth up to $30,000 on the black market.
Protected as endangered under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, the lizard is native only to Komodo Island and a few neighboring islands in Indonesia.
The lizard's teeth harbor bits of meat from previous meals, creating a residue that supports large numbers of bacteria. According to a March 1999 article in Scientific American magazine, researchers have found about 50 different bacterial strains, at least seven of which are highly septic, in the lizard's saliva.
Divorced soon after
Jim
I couldn't help but notice how stone now appears to have teeth similar to a Komodo dragon's (long and serrated), and matched exactly to the hue of her nicotine-colored dress!
But good for her for not getting flustered by Stewart. Was that genuine sanguinity, or just the Botox talkin'?
Cattily yours,
Schicky
Bronstein is even more of an ego-maniac than his ex-wife. I imagine he's still carrying the imprint of those gnarly dragon teeth on his big ol' toe to this day...not to mention the imprint of Dragon Sharon!
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