Sharon Stone discusses her failed Barbie pitch in the ’90s, saying that executives “didn’t think Barbie should be powerful.” Barbie was easily the biggest movie of the year; not only generating $1.4 billion worldwide but dominating pop culture discourse for months on end. It was a fitting conclusion for a project that had spent decades … Read more
Actress Sharon Stone was put under police watch while O.J. Simpson was being chased down the freeway in 1994. In the ongoing pursuit of O.J. Simpsons as he – as a passenger – headed down the Los Angeles freeway towards his home, there was a lot for watchers to take in. And there were a … Read more
Sharon Stone was “laughed” at by studio executives when she pitched a Barbie movie in the 1990s. The Basic Instinct actress recalled how film chiefs poured scorn on her idea for a film about the iconic toy doll and is grateful for the changes that have happened in Hollywood that led to Margot Robbie’s hugely … Read more
On August 9, 1969, Sharon Tate was found dead at her residence along with aspiring screenwriter Wojciech Frykowski, his girlfriend and book editor Abigail Folger and hairstylist Jay Sebring. Tate was eight months pregnant at the time of her passing and all four victims were reported to have been murdered by members of the Manson … Read more
Leonardo DiCaprio can’t thank Sharon Stone enough for paying his salary on Sam Raimi’s The Quick and the Dead. Leonardo DiCaprio has become one of our finest actors, but thirty years ago, he was an unknown who found his salary paid by Sharon Stone after the studio refused to hire him. Leonardo DiCaprio had auditioned … Read more