Sharon Stone: Getting Stoned
Q: Let's play "Best & Worst." What's your favorite quote?
A: Katharine Hepburn's: "Aging is like watching a car crash in slow motion." That's hilarious.
Q: Best hotel?
A: The Ritz, in Paris.
Q: Worst hotel?
A: In Victoria Falls in Africa. They had shag carpet and they didn't have a vacuum cleaner. Ticks lived in the carpet.
Q: Best restaurant?
A: Hmmm. Petrossian in New York.
Q: Best beach?
A: In Mauritius, off the southern tip of Africa. You can float 12 feet above the ocean floor and still see every grain of sand.
Q: Best designer?
A: Banana Republic.
Q: Best dessert?
A: An absolutely fresh homemade chocolate eclair.
Q: Do you make them?
A: No, or I'd be Sophie Tucker.
Q: Best smile?
A: Children.
Q: Face?
A: Ava Gardner.
Q: Body?
A: My husband.
Q: Best kiss you've ever had?
A: My husband.
Q: Best movie kisser?
A: Robert De Niro.
Q: Best sex stimulant?
A: Laughter.
Q: Best sex scene?
A: A scene that didn't have sex in it, in Witness where Kelly McGillis is washing and Harrison Ford is just looking at her.
Q: Your best movie?
A: It's yet to come, I hope.
Q: Of the ones you've done?
A: Casino was a special thing, a dream come true.
Q: What's your favorite movie?
A: The animated The Jungle Book. When we started Casino, Marty asked me that question and I told him the answer and he said he had a print, which I couldn't believe, because prints like that are in a vault in Tennessee. If you want to screen it it's a big deal--I've tried. I said, "If I do a really good job can I have it?" Five months later we finish the movie, which was an arduous process, and at the end I walked into my trailer and the film cans were stacked on my chair.
Q: Favorite artist?
A: Between Max Ernst and Egon Schiele. I have a Schiele drawing and an Ernst triptych painting that's very beautiful.
Q: Is that what you mainly collect?
A: Paintings, yes. And photographs. I have a couple of first-edition books like Cocteau's Opium.
Q: So if I do a really good job with this interview, can I have that book?
A: [Laughs]
Q: Favorite TV show?
A: I love Homicide: Life on the Street. Love it. I love The Sopranos. Oz is too much for me. Dharma & Greg. Jenna Elfman's delightful. I liked Ellen. I'm going to play a gay girl in a comedy. You know HBO's If These Walls Could Talk, which was about abortion? They're going to do a similar series this year about pregnancy, and Ellen DeGeneres will be my partner.
Q: Will Ann Heche get jealous?
A: She's gonna direct it.
Q: Do you have any other movies coming up?
A: I'm going to do a little part as Woody Allen's wife in the black comedy Picking Up the Pieces. The director is Alfonso Arau, who made Like Water for Chocolate.
Q: Whatever happened to the sequel to Basic Instinct?
A: They wrote a pretty good script, and I've been harassed to do a sequel. It should have been made four years after the first. I don't think it's timely.
Q: You said about Hollywood that you can only fuck your way to the middle: for those at the bottom, isn't that called progress?
A: [Laughs] I suspect it is.
Q: Do blondes have more fun?
A: I feel better about myself when I'm a little blonder.
Q: Are people jealous or envious of you?
A: Sure, come on. I got to be tall and blonde and a movie star--that's a lot to get in life.
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