almost okay

How about that Sharon Stone, eh? Still pretty doable for a fifty-year-old broad, am I right?

Too bad she just can't keep that pretty mouth of hers shut.

Earlier this week I was sitting in my hotel room in Buffalo swilling Yuengling Lager after a fifteen-hour workday when one of those Hollywood news shows came on. You know the ones. 'ET'... 'Inside Edition'...'Access Hollywood'... They all look the same to me, so I'm not sure which one I was watching at the time.

With a straight face and appropriate seriousness, the leggy blond reporter (dressed demurely in a sequined ivory evening gown) related the story of Stone's comments during a recent interview at the Cannes Film Festival wherein the actress speculated that the deadly earthquake which has so far killed nearly 70,000 people in China might actually be karmic retribution for the way the Beijing government has suppressed the poor, peace-loving people of Tibet.

All of Hollywood was shocked, of course, with several so-called celebrities chiming in that they thought Stone's comments were callous and inhumane. Dustin Diamond, famous for his role as 'Screech' on 'Saved by the Bell' reportedly responded by suggesting that Stone's “carpet doesn't really match her drapes” and that as punishment she deserved "the dirtiest fucking sanchez ever".

The brouhaha hubbub eventually led to Stone's Christian Dior ads being pulled from Chinese markets.

My question is: Who gives a shit what Sharon Stone says? This is supposed to be news? Wait a sec... that's two questions.

Believe me, though, if it weren't for the fact that the folks at Dior are worried they will miss out on their fair share of the growing skin creme and perfume demographic that's currently developing in China's new economy, they wouldn't give a shit either.

It seems to me that by making the idiotic comments of one washed-up Hollywood never-was who happens to have a nice bod and a pretty face worldwide news, the press has actually managed to trivialize this earthquake and the thousands of Chinese lives lost, not to mention the whole Chinese-Tibet thing.

After stating that she wasn't happy about China's treatment of Tibet, here's what Stone actually said: “Is that karma? When you're not nice that the bad things happen to you?” Judge for yourself, folks, but it sure sounds to me like another dumb blond was just trying to make sure she understood the definition of 'karma'.

And by the way, I've checked the stills from 'Basic Instinct' vee-eery closely; I'm pretty sure the carpet does match the drapes.

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