Celebrity Gossip / By Liz Smith
Stone shares opinions
"For God’s sake, don’t these girls know? When you get out of a car, you emerge head first!”
That’s Sharon Stone commenting on today’s celebutante’s who forget to wear their underwear.
If you think that’s funny coming from the woman who participated in cinema’s most invasive low angle, think again. Sharon has always denied she knew exactly where Paul Verhoeven’s “Basic Instinct” camera was. And in any case, as she says, “I was never that woman, that woman who exposed herself.”
Miss Stone, actress and activist, called me from California to say she was in my corner in the matter of my “retirement” from the New York Post. (But not from my TMS syndication, Variety, and my Wowowow Web site!) I was pleased to hear from her, but cravenly I asked, after the niceties, “Darling, got any news?” She said, laughing, “Well, aside from my good deeds? I’m such a good deed doer; I don’t think so. I don’t think I have any news. I’m much more interested in the fact that my children got into the school I wanted. It’s such a wonderful school. I think if you feel you need to spoil your kids, spoil them on education.”
Yes, yes ... this is wonderful, I said, but what about acting, what about your career? “You are such a great actress.” Sharon just about dropped the phone, “Yes, dammit, I am a great actress. And I do have to get back to work.” (I wasn’t blowing smoke; she is a wonderful actress. But she is pretty laid-back about her abilities.)
In fact, the star has two movies upcoming, “$5 a Day” with Christopher Walken and “Streets of Blood” co-starring Val Kilmer. Of the latter effort she says, “The cast was ablaze with talent! Especially 50 Cent. He is smoking hot, brilliant!” (50 Cent, famous for his music, was born Curtis James Jackson III, and I think that name would look just as good on a marquee.)
After the required career chat, somehow we got into issues of privacy in general and Michael Phelps, the Olympian in particular. “Geez!” said Sharon, “This is not about condoning marijuana use. use. This is about how celebrities are not allowed to be normal. He is a 23-year-old, who did what he did in private. It’s OK to be normal, to succeed and to fail.
“He didn’t do it on Main Street. And he didn’t need to apologize publicly. The people who photographed him and sold the pictures, those who invaded his privacy; they are the ones who should apologize. Listen, these girls who get out of their cars showing what they’ve got, knowing they’re showing what they’ve got—they should apologize.” (Oh, and before you say it—I’m sure Sharon didn’t realize the dress she wore to a recent awards ceremony went transparent under the flash of the candid cameras.)
Sharon was fired up. “You know, it’s incredible, we can’t argue with our spouse, can’t get fat, can’t wear the clothes we want to wear without commentary, or the paparazzi who are now just dangerous ...” She paused. “But this is the actual ‘price of fame’ and nobody put a gun to my head to go on with it.”
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