Chinese Exhibitor Bans Sharon Stone
Filed under: Celebrities and Controversy, Politics
These stories just keep getting better. On the heels of Israeli municipalities apparently banning the display of the word "sex" on Sex and the City billboards (a claim that's been disputed) and Russian communists calling for a boycott of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull because the Soviet Union did not, in fact, seek to use alien technology to practice mind control on US citizens during the Cold War, comes the news that Sharon Stone has annoyed the owner of the leading Chinese cinema chain to the point where he's pledged not to show her films. What did she say? She said that the recent earthquake in China may have been "karma" -- cosmic justice for the way China has treated the Tibetans. That's stupid, but the theater owner -- Ng See-Yuen -- wasn't angry at the manifest silliness of Stone's statement so much as the fact that she's politicized a devastating natural disaster. Which is kind of a good point too -- at least, she's politicized it in a way that's really weird. And it's important to note that, at least on its face, this doesn't seem to be a case of the Chinese government censoring Stone's films, but rather an exhibitor making a choice not to show them. Of course, with the way the Chinese government operates, who really knows.
Sharon Stone seems to have no "big" films in the pipeline, so it's not clear what effect, if any, the boycott will have on revenues.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
5-27-2008 @ 4:15PM
jeff said...
she is the ugliest animal i the world. if the earthquake is a karma, 911 and katrina are karma.
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5-27-2008 @ 4:15PM
jeff said...
911 is a karma ?!
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5-27-2008 @ 5:51PM
TrueVoiceOfLiberty said...
Gosh, it’s one way to get her name in the news nowadays since her only ‘big’ movie was from 20+ years ago. What a horrible way to get some attention. At age of 50, she is way too old to be even consider as a cougar, those investors of Basic Instinct 2 must be over 70…
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5-27-2008 @ 7:06PM
Martin DeJohn said...
Yeah, they are so stupid. They should screen her Basic instinct and its sequel (for free, or even pay people who come to see the sequel), and comment "This is what we call 'Karma'".
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5-28-2008 @ 12:36AM
Rama's SCREEN said...
Let's not forget..
I've been getting e-mails from Hindu people asking me to join them boycotting the movie THE LOVE GURU.
Because they think it's insulting India and Hindu.
I as a movie blogger will see movies as just movies.
Rama's SCREEN
www.ramasscreen.com
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5-28-2008 @ 2:15PM
PacificGatePost said...
This was said with some aforethought, just not much of it.
America is looking to improve its image around the world, and this is did not the kind of help it needs.
http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/05/hollywood-polishing-americas-image.html
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5-28-2008 @ 11:30PM
bao bao said...
The epicenter of the China earthquake is called Wenchuan—Aba Tibet Self-Governing State. This means most victims in the earthquake are Tibetan. If Sharon said it’s karma,then it’s a karma for Dalai Lama. Where is Dalai when Chinses government rescued those Tibetan?
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