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Adventurer
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 Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 8:17 am Post subject: Sharon Stone: Was China quake `bad karma?' |
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Sharon Stone: Was China quake `bad karma?'
Wednesday May 28 4:58 AM ET
LOS ANGELES (AP) Sharon Stone's "karma" comment is having an instant effect on her movie-star status in China.
The 50-year-old actress suggested last week that the devastating May 12 earthquake in China could have been the result of bad karma over the government's treatment of Tibet. That prompted the founder of one of China's biggest cinema chains to say his company would not show her films in his theaters, according to a story in The Hollywood Reporter.
"I'm not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else," Stone said Thursday during a Cannes Film Festival red-carpet interview with Hong Kong's Cable Entertainment News. "And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you're not nice that the bad things happen to you?"
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Ng See-Yuen, founder of the UME Cineplex chain and the chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers, called Stone's comments "inappropriate," adding that actors should not bring personal politics to comments about a natural disaster that has left five million Chinese homeless, according to the Reporter.
UME has branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hangzhou and Guangzhou, China's biggest urban movie markets.
During the brief interview, which has also surfaced on YouTube, Stone also said she cried when she received a letter from the Tibetan Foundation asking her to help quake victims.
"They wanted to go and be helpful, and that made me cry," she said. "It was a big lesson to me that sometimes you have to learn to put your head down and be of service even to people who aren't nice to you."
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bookemdanno
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:58 am Post subject: |
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Sharon Stone is a washed-up sex symbol starlet with mediocre talents who has evidently joined the Richard Gere Club of China Bashing.
I doubt she knows the first thing about Tibetan history, particularly the Chinese perspective (Hollywood elites tend to ignore the fact that there actually is one).
So much drivel, so little time. |
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Big_Bird
Joined: 31 Jan 2003
Location: Sometimes here sometimes there...
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 3:56 am Post subject: |
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OUt of sheer boredom (my son is watching bloody Thomas the Tank Engine for the millionth time) I checked out the youtube clip of her making her faux pas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcRiAytaD6w
What a silly tart. |
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Adventurer
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 7:00 am Post subject: |
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| Big_Bird wrote: |
OUt of sheer boredom (my son is watching bloody Thomas the Tank Engine for the millionth time) I checked out the youtube clip of her making her faux pas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcRiAytaD6w
What a silly tart. |
I hope she will give an apology. She is not making things better for the Dalai Lama. He doesn't need these comments, and they are not fair.
With a woman with her IQ, she should know better. She is not a dumb woman, but she wasn't using common sense. I can understand a person briefly thinking that and then re-evaluating themselves, but she went and give this major speech about it without thinking. |
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SirFink
Joined: 05 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 11:41 am Post subject: Re: Sharon Stone: Was China quake `bad karma?' |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| could have been the result of bad karma |
I like that she posed it like this. Could Sharon Stone have been jacked up on a cocktail of pills and cheap vodka during the interview? Could she be a pretentious douche for saying "the Dalai Lama is a good friend of mine?" |
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On the other hand
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Location: I walk along the avenue
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 12:22 pm Post subject: |
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| With a woman with her IQ |
What evidence is there for her alleged brilliance, besides that people(inclduing her) keep talking about it? Whenever I've heard or read things that she's said, they always sound like pretty run-of-the-mill observations. |
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Leslie Cheswyck
Joined: 31 May 2003
Location: University of Western Chile
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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wanker
Pronunciation: \ˈwaŋ-kər\
Function: noun
Date: circa 1961
1chiefly British usually vulgar : a person who masturbates
2chiefly British usually vulgar : jerk, dolt |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 6:13 pm Post subject: |
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| With a woman with her IQ |
What evidence is there for her alleged brilliance, besides that people(inclduing her) keep talking about it? Whenever I've heard or read things that she's said, they always sound like pretty run-of-the-mill observations. |
As I understand from reading her bio, she was an excellent school, scored very high on an IQ test and did well in university. It doesn't mean you are going to always use common sense when it comes to world events and social issues. She has come short in that area, it appears. I am not going to bash Sharon Stone, but what she said is not something the Dalai Lama would support, and it would appear cold, though she is trying to be warm to the Buddhist people of Tibet. That's not the way to do it, because the people of Tibet are not Buddha and his teachings. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 7:52 pm Post subject: |
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As a teen, she worked at a McDonald's restaurant. When she was a young woman her IQ was tested at 154 points. After skipping a grade in school, she was involuntarily transferred from Saegertown High School to Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, enrolling at the age of fifteen years. She returned for a visit to her college in March 2007 for academic purposes, and there, to her surprise, she received an honorary doctorate from former university president Frank Pogue...
For many years it was believed that Sharon Stone was a member of Mensa, but in April 2002, she admitted she was not, and had never been, a member of the high-IQ society. Jim Blackmore of Mensa said, "It's delightful to finally see Ms. Stone admit that she's not and never has been a member of our society. But then she goes on to say, 'I went to a Mensa school.' Not so." Blackmore said that would not have been possible as there have been no Mensa schools since the early 1960s. |
All I see here is that someone claims and Wikipedia repeats that Sharon Stone scored 154 on an IQ test, "as a young woman." Which IQ test? Who administered it? Etc.
I also see that she worked at McDonald's as a teenager. She later attended but apparently did not graduate from University of Penn. Not exactly the Juliard School of Acting or some other similar program where a child-prodigy should have gone. In any case, someone awarded her an honorary doctorate later in life. Good for her. But again, what circumstances surround this honorary doctorate?
Next, Stone allowed a rumor that she had been a member of MENSA to go uncorrected for years. Why, if this was not true, did she not set the record straight earlier? And which MENSA school exactly is she claiming to have attended?
Lastly, why does someone possessing such stellar intelligence say things such as "all this earthquake and all this stuff" when they speak unscriped lines before the press...? |
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Ya-ta Boy
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
Location: Established in 1994
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| Why, if this was not true, did she not set the record straight earlier? |
I believe I have an answer for that.
A long time ago in a country far, far away, I was a newbie teacher. The woman who taught Sophomore English was a very well put-together woman of 50 with a rather intimidating don't-smile-till-Christmas demeanor, named Mrs. Jean. Each fall, the rumor went around among the sophomores that she had been Miss Nebraska.
My second or third year I worked up the courage to ask if she had indeed been Miss Nebraska. She just smiled and walked away.
A few years later, when I was no longer wet behind the ears, I asked her again at a faculty party. She'd had a few 7 & 7s and was a bit looser than usual. She said, "Ya-ta, what lady would ever put down a flattering rumor?" and walked away. |
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Rteacher
Joined: 23 May 2005
Location: Western MA, USA
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 5:37 am Post subject: |
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She was just following her Basic Instincts ...  |
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Adventurer
Joined: 28 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 7:35 am Post subject: |
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| She was just following her Basic Instincts ... |
Now, that was very funny, rteacher! Look, you can have a high IQ or a PHD and say very dumb things. We all know that. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 7:50 pm Post subject: |
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| Look, you can have a high IQ or a PHD and say very dumb things. We all know that. |
Sure. I mean, just look at Gopher if you have any doubts.
Heehee, just kiddin' around.
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| That prompted the founder of one of China's biggest cinema chains to say his company would not show her films in his theaters, according to a story in The Hollywood Reporter. |
I suppose they can do that if they want, but since totalitarian suppression of free speech is one of the things people have been criticizing China for, um, sorta counter-productive, seems to me ... |
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gypsyfish
Joined: 17 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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Her karma ran over my dogma.
No such thing as karma. |
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Gopher
Joined: 04 Jun 2005
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| Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Ya-ta Boy wrote: |
| I believe I have an answer for that. |
That sounds plausible. Obviously, you do not buy into her alleged genius, either, I take it? |
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