To print this page, select "Print" from the File menu of your browser salon.com > People August 13, 1999 URL: http://www.salon.com/people/col/reit/1999/08/13/stone Sharon Stone tells all and then some She's "very happy" with her breasts, not very happy with Steven Seagal; Pat Boone reveals his dark side; America wants to put Ryan Phillippe in tights. Plus: Sprockets! - - - - - - - - - - - - By Amy Reiter So you think, after replaying the "Basic Instinct" interrogation scene backward and forward umpteen times, you've seen all Sharon Stone has to show? Well, the panty-eschewing actress gives the unsuspecting masses an even deeper peek into her murky depths in the upcoming issue of Movieline magazine. 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? 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-ready-for-prime-time stars to sign contracts locking them into the show (and much smaller salaries) for much longer stints. Live from New York, it's the same cast as last year? Might as well just clone Tim Meadows. 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-eight-year-old Sean Connery has been named the sexiest man of the century by New Woman magazine. The grizzled Scotsman slinked past almost-equally well-seasoned Harrison Ford, Mel Gibson and the more youthful Brad Pitt. Readers did, however, finger Pitt as the "guy you would most like to repopulate the world with after a Martian invasion." (Who makes up these polls?) But hey, Sean, don't reach for that little blue pill just yet; the women polled overwhelmingly considered the heart to be the most important organ and penis size way down there (20th, well below hands) on the list of important physical traits. Come to think of it, who answers these polls? salon.com | August 13, 1999