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Sharon Stone tells all and then some
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August 13, 1999 |
The little lady with the reputed Mensa-level IQ confesses that she once (jokingly?)
told her "Casino" director Martin Scorsese to "kiss my
ass." She also holds forth on sex ("There's nothing like married, loving sex," she
contends, to the likely relief of her newspaperman hubby, Phil Bronstein),
her breasts (she's "very happy" with them), plastic surgery ("That thing where you
have a mask that stops at your jawline and you have this baggy body underneath, I
wouldn't do that to myself") and drugs (marijuana is "terrific" and "should be
legalized," while cocaine is "an evil, horrible, awful thing" and hallucinogens are
scary, capable of making her "lose my mind"). She also has a choice word or two for several of her celebrity compatriots.
Gwyneth Paltrow, says Stone, is "very young and lives in rarefied air
that's a little thin. It's like she's not getting quite enough oxygen." While
Leonardo DiCaprio's acting genius, she maintains, is being eaten up by his
fame. "It's such a hideous thing, what's happened to him," she says. "I can't think
of anything worse." Steven Seagal? "An individual who isn't worth the ink
it would take to write about him." Not that Nothing Personal will argue with Stone's assessments, mind you,
particularly when she admits to her interviewer, "I'm so sick of me." Smartest thing
she's said in years. - - - - - - - - - - - - No more Mr. Nice Guy
"He should be displayed publicly and have all of his fingers and toes broken and
then publicly executed so they who think those like the imprisoned
Manson and Sirhan are glamorous -- will think differently." -- Squeaky clean '50s icon Pat Boone, airing surprisingly dark sentiments
about the deserved fate of alleged neo-Nazi murderer Buford Furrow. - - - - - - - - - - - - Ryan Phillippe: Man in
tights? Amy Reiter Amy Reiter's column appears daily on the People site, Monday through Friday.
Got a hot tip? Tell Amy! Romeo, oh Romeo ... quit fooling around with Reese Witherspoon and get your poetic soul over here. The American moviegoing public has spoken and it wants to see disco boy Ryan Phillippe ... in tights ... romancing barely legal Natalie Portman. According to an online survey conducted by Blockbuster, Phillippe edged out superslender superstar Leonardo DiCaprio, 32 percent to 25 percent, as the actor they'd most like to see portray the tragic wooer in Shakespeare's "Romeo and Juliet." The preferred wooee? Portman, presumably out of her "Phantom Menace" regal regalia, who bested "I Know What You Did Last Summer" party girl Jennifer Love Hewitt by two percentage points and "She's All That" star Rachael Leigh Cook by nine. Female respondents also said they'd rather see Phillippe prance around in tights than Ben Affleck, Brad Pitt, Will Smith or Matthew McConaughey. Drew Carey was robbed. - - - - - - - - - - - - Ed McMahon to the rescue? "I sort of need to take this step for my own peace of mind and my own sense of self-worth. It's not like I went to bed as a boy dreaming of being a sidekick on a late-night television show." -- Late-night laughing boy Andy Richter on his decision to ditch his post as Conan O'Brien's sidekick. - - - - - - - - - - - - Juicy bits Toldja so. It seems like ages since this column tipped you off to rumors that a
big-screen version of "Sprockets" was in the works. (Now is the time in Nothing
Personal when we
dance.) Well, now Variety reports that Mike Myers, the genius
behind the German avant-garde scene-skewering "Saturday Night Live" skits on
which the flick will be based (not to mention the he-man behind everyone's fave
snaggletoothed spy), has his pen poised to sign a strapping $20 million two-picture
deal to set "Sprockets" in motion. "I'm proud to be the guy who gets to pay him the
big dollars," Imagine Entertainment chairman Brian Grazer gushed this
week. Whoppin' deals like this one may be the reason that SNL big shots are
lobbying for the show's not- And you thought the prune burgers they're serving up in high schools were bad. Russian scientists are working on an item I'd be even less likely to order off a menu: yogurt made from bacteria harvested in astronauts' stomachs. Developed as a cure for bugs Russian cosmonauts sometimes get as they prepare to rocket into space, the line of space snacks includes fruit-flavored yogurt and cheeses seasoned with garlic and herbs. That chalky freeze-dried ice cream is sounding better all the time, eh? New Woman/Old Man? Looks like the makers of Viagra chose the wrong oldster
to be their spokesman. Sixty-
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