“When you’re lost, find yourself in the service of others.”

That is the eternal sex bomb, underrated actress and ongoing humanitarian Sharon Stone, quoting Gandhi.

Stone has raised millions for amfAR with her legendary auctioneering powers, but she is involved in a number of other charities, including Planet Hope, co-founded with her sister, Kelly, and also “Homeless Not Toothless,” a nonprofit organization that provides homeless patients and foster children with free dental care. Brentwood dentist Dr. Jay Grossman started this up.

Sharon filmed a PSA for HNT, which can be seen on the

www.homelessnottoothless.org

Web site. The glamorous star makes her pitch with her hair pulled into a ponytail and no make-up. But this week, at the Shangri La Hotel in Santa Monica, Miss Stone looked every inch her image. She was honored for her work with HNT. The writer Antwone Fisher, who grew up in foster care, was also honored. William H. Macy presented Sharon her award; producer Todd Black did the same for Fisher.

P. S. But just because Sharon performs good deeds in a naughty world, doesn’t mean she’s opted out of capitalizing on her most negotiable assets for old-fashioned, sexy movie queen publicity. She recently did a photo shoot for Paris Match, decked out in a black leather dominatrix corset and high heels, her perky 51-year-old bosoms naked for the world to see. Of course, this could be seen as a good deed too!

Tilda Swinton is the super-talented Oscar-winning actress who has made her name in indie and art house films, but her Oscar win came from the mainstream movie “Michael Clayton,” starring George Clooney.

I don’t associate Tilda, who is tall and pale and unique looking, with wacky, high-style comedy, although I admit I haven’t seen all of her films. But the Italian director Luca Guadagnino sees those qualities in her. In fact, Luca, who directed Tilda in the coming feature “I Am Love,” thinks his star would be perfect in a modern update on the 1958 classic “Auntie Mame.”

That’s right. Tilda wants to tackle a role that Roz Russell put her indelible stamp upon, on stage and screen.

In case you are too young to remember, “Auntie Mame” was first a best-selling book, written by Patrick Dennis. (The author insisted the plot—a 10-year-old orphan who goes to live with his madcap aunt, Mame—was slightly autobiographical.) The book became a smash hit Broadway play. Then a smash hit movie. Then a smash hit Jerry Herman Broadway musical starring Angela Lansbury. And then ... well, best to remember Lucille Ball as Lucy Ricardo, not Mame Dennis.

I say to Tilda why not give it a go? For those who complain about great movies being remade, almost always in an inferior fashion, it’s not like the original is being physically destroyed, you know. Anyway, this idea is as yet only an idea, floated by director Luca, who is imploring Warner Bros., to free the rights and allow Tilda to utter the immortal credo of Auntie Mame: “Life’s a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!”

They bring back Hamlet all the time, why not Mame?

My Question of the Day: If Julia Child finally has a big best seller (“butter and all” quips the New York Times) in her famous book “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” then I have to inquire the following. Why hasn’t PBS put the Julia cooking shows, only 48 years old, back onto the Public Broadcasting Network for everybody to see the real Julia in action? Why?