Sharon Stone

If you don't want to bother with the book, there's a Hillary Rodham Clinton TV movie in the works. A&E plans to make a two-hour movie on the New York senator and former first lady that is expected to air in early 2004. No one has been cast yet, but producers have already talked with Sharon Stone about the title role, according to a source close to the production who spoke on condition of anonymity.

Here she comes again, Sharon Stone--actress to the core, just up from the murky waters of "Sphere" and wed on Valentine's Day to Phil Bronstein, executive editor of the San Francisco Examiner.

I found it ironic that we were being inundated with Oscar rhetoric about honoring women in film. There were speeches, film clips, even an overblown number supposedly proving how far we women have come in Hollywood. I kept my TV tuned to ABC and witnessed Sharon Stone concerning her infamous scene in a revealing skirt sans underwear. When she explained how the director had deceived her to get that shot, I was outraged. Stone was sexually assaulted with a camera. When the film is shown, she is violated again.

The recently unveiled list of the 100 greatest movie thrillers contained few shocks for me. "Psycho" (1960), of course, was No. 1 in the American Film Institute's ratings. Don't know if you remember, but the turning point for the Janet Leigh character occurs near the start of the movie when she is driving this way from Phoenix and comes to a fork in the road. A sign says Bakersfield is one way, L.A. the other. She chooses Bakersfield. She gets no sympathy from me. Anyway, "Jaws" (1975) was No.

So here's "Basic Instinct" star Sharon Stone on the cover of People magazine. Then there's Stone pictured inside the publication, lounging by the pool "in the back yard of her L.A. home." Next we see Stone on the cover of Hello, a British magazine, "photographed for the first time ever in her beautiful Los Angeles home." "She's bought her dream home," the British publication announced. The only trouble is, it is only a dream. Stone hasn't bought any new home at all, says her publicist.

Actress Sharon Stone has listed her Beverly Hills area compound for sale at $8,995,000. The walled and gated Mediterranean estate sits at the end of a private road on five acres with pathways, bridges, waterfalls, fruit trees, a meditation garden, a swimming pool and a tennis court with viewing pavilion. The main house, built in 1991, includes a paneled library with a fireplace and an oversized living room with a wet bar. The master suite has a fireplace, dual bathrooms, dual dressing rooms and a terrace.

Every once in a while, actress Sharon Stone would ask her housekeeper, Coco, where a pair of J.P. Tod shoes, a Luis Vuitton handbag or a Vera Wang evening gown might be. "The housekeeper would say, 'You gave that to your sister,' or, 'Oh, that's at the cleaners,' " said Deputy Dist. Atty. Wendy E. Segall.

While browsing through the channels a few weeks ago, I had to click back to be sure I was really seeing Hillary Rodham Clinton laughing and joking on "Live With Regis & Kathie Lee." (Can the day be far off when she'll be chatting with Geraldo about Gennifer Flowers?) This week, I saw Mrs. Clinton's name on the cover of the December Vogue magazine, taking second billing to Sharon Stone of the famous crotch, who is the cover girl and is featured in an article "On Sex and Stardom."

It had the ingredients of a juicy Tinseltown courtroom spectacle: Actress Sharon Stone versus Mario Kassar and Andy Vajna, the star and producers of the 1992 erotic thriller "Basic Instinct." The tabloids might have dubbed the dispute "The Diva vs.

"Exiles and Emigres: The Flight of European Artists From Hitler," the major exhibition that opened Sunday at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, had a big price tag: more than $1 million. That presented the museum and curator Stephanie Barron with a daunting fund-raising challenge, but the show had a lot going for it.