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Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSharon Stone has taken a swipe at Johnny Depp in a new interview about her success in the art world.The Hollywood star, whose credits include Basic Instinct and Casino, has turned her back on acting to pursue her painting skills – and she cast aspersions on an art collection created by Depp that fetched millions in 2022.Stone reignited her passion for art during lockdown, and decided…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSharon Stone has revealed why her Barbie film pitch failed in the 1990s, long before the 2023 box-office sensation came out.Stone, who starred in Casino and Basic Instinct, claimed she was “thrown out” of an undisclosed film studio after suggesting a story about a Barbie.Many different stars had tried and failed to make a Barbie film before director Greta Gerwig’s success, including…

Sharon Stone appeared on the Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade podcast this week, where she reflected on her 1992 appearance on Saturday Night Live. The actress hosted the late-night sketch show to promote Basic Instinct and some of the skits were themed around the actress taking her clothes off. On the podcast, Carvey acknowledged that Stone “was such a good sport,” adding that “the comedy we did in 1992 with Sharon Stone, we would be literally arrested now.” One sketch in particular was the…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSharon Stone has taken a swipe at Johnny Depp in a new interview about her success in the art world.The Hollywood star, whose credits include Basic Instinct and Casino, has turned her back on acting to pursue her painting skills – and she cast aspersions on an art collection created by Depp that fetched millions in 2022.Stone reignited her passion for art during lockdown, and decided…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSharon Stone has said she is “shocked” her career did not continue to go as well as she’d hoped after the success of her movie Casino.The 66-year-old was nominated for an Oscar for Best Actress for playing Ginger McKenna in the 1995 epic crime film, which also starred Robert De Niro as Sam “Ace” Rothstein. Stone, who is now a painter charging up to $40,000 per artwork, shared that her…

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeSharon Stone has taken a swipe at Johnny Depp in a new interview about her success in the art world.The Oscar-winning Hollywood star, whose credits include Basic Instinct and Casino, has turned her back on acting to pursue her painting skills – and she cast aspersions on an art collection created by Depp that fetched millions in 2022.Stone reignited her passion for art during lockdown,…

A groundbreaking study by UC San Diego researchers has uncovered thousands of new bile acids, shedding light on their critical roles beyond digestion and highlighting their potential in treating various diseases. This discovery marks a significant step forward in our understanding of the gut microbiome’s communication with the body and human metabolism.Scientists at the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, part of the University of California San Diego, have discovered thousands of new bile acids. These…

One day a close friend of Sharon Stone’s went for dinner with her family. The friend’s father-in-law counselled that she should not choose pizza, since she had just had a baby and ought to lose weight. This incident inspired one of Stone’s paintings, It’s My Garden, Asshole: a gorgeous acrylic on canvas depicting a shimmering impressionistic garden held together with an undulating ground of salmon and De Kooning-esque pinks.So the father-in-law was the asshole, I ask? Not quite, explains the star during a video call from…

Sharon Stone’s bitter public feud with Billy Baldwin is nothing new and goes back to long before she claimed this week that she was pressured to have sex with him in order to improve their on-screen chemistry and his less-than-stellar acting in the 1993 erotic thriller “Sliver.” Indeed, the feud goes back to that infamous film, Stone’s follow-up to her blockbuster 1992 hit “Basic Instinct.” Stone didn’t want the younger Baldwin brother to play her mysterious seducer in the sexually charged “Sliver,” about a New York book…

Stone Temple Pilots, Live, Soul Asylum, and Our Lady Peace are going to party like it’s 1994 on the Jubilee Tour this summer. STP will celebrate the anniversary of their 1994 LP Purple, and Live will spotlight their 1994 album Throwing Copper. “Fans of the iconic bands can expect a night of hit songs from those albums,” reads a press release, “and much more, with a full set of music by each group spanning generations.” The co-headlining tour kicks off Aug. 16 in Concord, California, and wraps up Sept. 15 in…