You know I think highly of Sharon Stone’s looks, right? It’s debatable as to whether she’s been tweaked or not, but whatever she’s doing, her face looks good. She’s a mature woman who looks great for her age. And normally, she’s a good casual dresser too. But this is maybe the worst she’s looked in YEARS. And it’s all about the outfit. This outfit would be fug on someone half Sharon’s age, and on her it’s just a catastrophe. What is the cut-off point for leather pants? And why would you pair low-slung leather pants with loafers and a cropped turtleneck? What’s especially disturbing is that this isn’t just some casual look Sharon threw on at the last minute – she was at a business lunch or something. Terrible.

Meanwhile, Sharon appears on the cover of this month’s AARP Magazine, and she talks in detail about her past health issues, including her brain hemorrhage and her miscarriages:

On her brain hemorrhage, the 53-year-old Stone explained, “I came out of the hospital with short- and long-term memory loss. My lower left leg was numb. I couldn’t hear out of my right ear. The side of my face was falling down. I thought, ‘I’ll never be pretty again. Who’s going to want to be around me?’”

Over the past dozen years, she also suffered two miscarriages, which led her and Bronstein to adopt Roan, now 11. “The last time I lost the baby, I went into 36 hours of labor. While we were at the hospital, our adoption attorney called. I thought, ‘This is such a godsend. This is so right.’ I always thought I would adopt. Even when I was young, I used to look up how to adopt.”

A bitter divorce from Bronstein in 2004, however, delivered another blow when Stone lost a custody battle for Roan.

But out of it came her choice to adopt her two more boys; Laird, 6, and Quinn, 5. Stone gushed, “I’m loving raising my kids. Quinn is in junior kindergarten, and he’s very exclamatory! Like a little FBI agent, he tells you everything that’s happening, so I call him Agent Quinn. ‘Mom! Toots pooped in the yard!’ ‘Thank you, Agent Quinn.’ I’ve made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.”

[From Extra]

I had totally forgotten that Sharon lost custody of her oldest son. That’s sad.

Oh, and Sharon just signed on for a new movie called Attachment. She plays a mother of a teenager – the mother has an affair with a college student (a boy) and the boy starts dating the daughter and then terrorizing the family. I don’t even know. It sounds like a gender-reversed version of the Alicia Silverstone movie, The Crush. I LOVE that movie.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.

A few weeks ago, we had some new photos of Sharon Stone on the NYC set of Gods Behaving Badly. These are more photos from the set, from yesterday. Weeks ago, I remarked on how great Sharon looks for her age (53 years old) and how she seems like she’s got great genes plus she takes care of herself. Many of you yelled at me and claimed that what Sharon really has is a really great surgeon. Well, I mentioned your theory to my mother, who knows everything about certain generations of celebrities, and she confirmed your claims – according to my mom, Sharon has had gradual and smaller surgeries to achieve her current “look”. (Yes, I’m totally using my mom as a “source.”) Oh, and Sharon once admitted to having lip injections, but she’s always claimed she only had that one thing done, for a brief time.

So, I’ll succumb to your arguments. I am outnumbered and out-flanked. Sharon is not aging naturally. That being said, I appreciate the fact that Sharon has made alterations with care and with an eye towards the “natural”. She doesn’t look like a Botoxed cat-face, and she doesn’t look pinched, stretched, tucked and sucked into oblivion. She really does look like a well-preserved woman who could pass for an attractive woman in her 40s. If you’re going to tweak, this is the way to do it.

By the way, did you know that Sharon is dating a 26-year-old? His name is Chase Dreyfous, and they’ve been dating for two years! You can see a photo of him here – he looks really young. Like, teenager young. I bet Sharon is older than his parents. Speaking of, Page Six reports that Sharon took Chase and his parents out to eat at Prime on Long Island a few nights ago. SMH.

Last thing – Thoughts on the bra situation? I know I recently excoriated Jennifer Love Hewitt for her exposed bra, so what makes this Sharon Stone situation any different? Eh. It’s a black bra under a white shirt, and it’s obvious that Sharon is just wearing this ensemble in between costumes. It’s not like she’s wearing this to go to dinner with her family (like J. Love did).

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

I’ve often wondered if Sharon Stone has gotten some minor tweaking over the years. If she has, I can’t tell. It’s not one of those situations where I can’t put my finger on what a celebrity has gotten done, but I know for sure that they look different. Sharon always looks natural to me, in that she’s not full of fillers and Botox, and she’s never appeared to suddenly have a completely new face. She’s 53 years old, and we should all be so lucky to look this good at her age.

Of course, in these photos, Sharon is being helped by professional hair and makeup. These are from the set of Gods Behaving Badly, where Sharon is playing a goddess living in NYC. The film also stars Alicia Silverstone and Christopher Walken (he’s playing Zeus).

So is Sharon all-natural, or is her surgeon just one of the best in the business? Does she get tweaked, but keeps it as close to natural as possible, or does she simply take great care of herself and have great genes? I still don’t know. I like the mystery, though. I wish more ladies had such natural-looking faces. I feel that way when I look at Meryl Streep too – at this point, I think ladies look YOUNGER when they are un-tweaked.

Photos courtesy of Pacific Coast News.

Look, I’m not saying the bitch isn’t fabulous. Look at her. Everything about Sharon Stone says “Fabulous Bitch”. The beehive, the feathered “Black Swan” Christian Dior gown, the Kate Middleton eye liner, the fact that Sharon actually looks her age AND looks good for her age, and the little matter of her major Cruella de Vil vibe. I love it all. If you’re Sharon Stone, this is how you come to the Oscars. You douse yourself in eyeliner and feathers and you work the carpet like the professional bitch that you are. I love her.

That being said, it is a little bit too much. Please don’t shank me with your specially made “Original Bitch” shank, Sharon! All of the pieces put together – the liner, the dress, the hair, the face – it’s just a touch too much. I think my biggest problem is with the ostrich feather detail – it’s too big. Just tone that down, and this would be a huge win for Sharon. But seriously, how else is she supposed to roll? Bitches better recognize!!

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I know it sounds completely random, but Sharon Stone and Mickey Rourke were in Russia today for the same press conference, something about children or eye diseases or something. That’s not important! The important thing is: Sharon Stone and Mickey Rourke! TOGETHER. Why did I never think of the two of them together? God, can you even imagine how insane and hilarious and crazy a couple they would make? It looks like Russian organizers were worried that someone would end up drunk and pregnant (Mickey), because they kept Sharon and Mickey away from each other. So, alas, no photos of them standing together. But luckily, I did find these old pics in the time capsule:

Those are just from last year! You know they were probably lovers. Long ago, and then again last year, probably. And it ended badly the second time. Either that or they flew to St. Petersburg together in a haze of Vicodin, champagne and rubber, and this press conference is just to announce their union. As for who I would rather… that’s so tough. I think I would prefer to go to bed with Mickey, but I’d rather go on a date with Sharon. Sharon would be fun to have dinner with – if the bitch didn’t stab you. Of course, you’re probably going to get stabbed if you go to bed with Mickey anyway.

Also: Sharon should stop with the red lipstick. It ages her.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

When I first saw these photos of Sharon Stone at last night’s AIDS charity gala, I was slightly overcome. Is Sharon Stone a crazy bitch? Sure. Is she not that talented as an actress? Sure. But this woman can wear the hell out of a black leather turtleneck dress, can’t she? The body looks great, and the face is rather amazing too. What a great red carpet appearance for her. Personally, I think Sharon is “dressing her age” while still looking younger and sexier than most women her age. She doesn’t look desperate, I think. She’s covered up yet she’s still showing off her figure. She could give Demi Moore some pointers.

So, here’s the question: Should Sharon Stone be style role model for over-40 women? Or is she a style role model for women of all ages? Is she timeless?

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Sharon Stone is the June cover girl for More Magazine. In the interview (which is online, here), Sharon talks about getting lip injections and how she’s “shameless” et cetera. Of course, she’s also talking about how her love life is like the Mojave, so maybe she’s not that shameless. Regarding the lip injections, I always wonder if Sharon has had any major work done – she’s one of those women (like Catherine Zeta-Jones) where I can’t tell if they’ve had no major work or just had really amazing work that looks natural. Here’s more from Sharon’s interview:

Sharon Stone is shameless. The actress considers it a skill to have no shame. She thinks everyone should try it, though she cautions that if you’re female, shamelessness can cost you. Her refusal to feel guilty, she says, has gotten her labeled difficult, or worse.

“I’m like a Prohibition-era flapper. I’m like a juke-joint hussy,” Stone says over lunch at an Italian restaurant near Beverly Hills. But better to be called names than to be pressured into not being herself. Feeling ashamed, she says, “is not an organic state of being, so shamelessness is closer to godliness. You have to put shame down.”

The actress, who broke through as the shamelessly sexual villain in Basic Instinct and most recently did a four-episode guest stint on Law & Order: SVU, says, “I’m detached from my celebrity; I don’t need to be ‘it’ anymore.” She’s been thinking a lot lately about getting older, about womanhood and about lost love. What she’s concluded may surprise you.

“Life and love is like the ocean,” she says between bites of a Caesar salad. At 52, she is stunning up close—blue eyed, lithe and radiant in ripped jeans, a white T-shirt sans bra and a linen vest. “Sometimes the tide is in and sometimes the tide is out, and sometimes it’s like the frigging Mojave.” Where’s the tide now? “For me? Mojave! Fortunately, I like the desert. I’m a desert flower.”

Of course, a dry spell in Stone’s life can sound like a torrential downpour to the rest of us. For example, she acknowledges that since her divorce from former San Francisco newspaper editor Phil Bronstein six years ago, “I really get pursued by men in their twenties, like, a lot.” Her theory on why? “They probably know there’s food in the fridge and that somebody’s going to talk to them and ask them how their day was.”

Her divorce, she tells writer Amy Wallace, hit her harder than she has revealed up till now, starting with insecurity about her looks. Loneliness and self doubt caused her to get something—she doesn’t recall what—injected into her lips. “Nobody loves me. I’m 103. My life would be better if I had better lips,” she says, recounting the thoughts that went through her head pre-injection. Just one thought occurred to her afterward: “What the hell?” Her lips were so overplump, gloss wouldn’t stay put; what’s more, her lips no longer matched. She looked “like a trout,” she says. She adds that she’s shunned plastic surgery ever since.

As for her feelings about Bronstein, Stone, who has previously had a sort of tough-as-nails demeanor when discussing their split, says now that she married him “with every best intention for every good and wonderful thing.” And when the marriage was over, it crushed her. “It takes a long, long time to come to the point where you can actually say that you got married because you were in love with the person. And it makes me cry,” she says, dabbing at her eyes. It’s easier to be angry. But to let that go and “to admit your own lovingness was, for me, a harder step. Not to be embarrassed or ashamed that I could love somebody who didn’t love me. And that can be OK.”

[From More Magazine]

Do you buy that Sharon has 20-something dudes coming up to her? Perhaps. But – and I’m seriously not trying to be rude and mean, I swear – I think if guys in their 20s come up to her or proposition her, it’s for the kitsch value of it. Like, those are the guys who had their first masturbatory celebrity fantasy to Sharon in Basic Instinct. Of course, maybe she’s a lot of fun and really cool to be around and there really are 20-something dudes just salivating to hit that. But I doubt it, on all counts.

Pics of Sharon, courtesy of More online.

Did anyone get drunk and watch Sharon Stone’s first episode as the new Assistant District Attorney for Law & Order: SVU last night? Am I the only one raising my hand? Well, I watched it so you don’t have to. You should be happy, because Sharon SUCKED. I mean, her horrible acting was so epic, I sobered up. Not even an appearance by Sam “Jack McCoy 4 Eva” Watterson could save this bitch.

Now, before I get too heavily into bashing Sharon, let me just say that my once beloved SVU is just terrible now. It was going downhill last season, but this season The Awful just keeps coming. You know it was bad when I was like, “I’ll pay Christopher Meloni $100 to shoot Christine Lahti in the face.” The stories have been terrible, and all too often the have nothing to do with “special victims”. I guess it’s come to the point where, yeah, how many serial rapists can there be in New York? But still, I know there’s new material to be found, somebody’s just sleeping on the job.

As for Sharon’s premiere appearance… it was just wrong. Her delivery was wrong, her haughty flirtation with Meloni was wrong, her attitude was weird, and Sharon just seemed like she was two seconds behind everyone. Was she drunk? Oh, and her face: it’s been worked on. Entertainment Weekly had complaints too:

Sharon Stone began her four-episode guest-star turn on Law & Order: SVU in an episode filled with such clunky dialogue and improbable details that by the end, she seemed like a “special victim” herself.

Stone played ADA Jo Marlowe, and how unlikely is it that, with all the time Christopher Meloni’s Stabler and Mariska Hargitay’s Benson have spent together, he never mentioned that his old partner Jo wasn’t a “Joe”? Looking great even when doffing her heels for rubbery firefighter boots while investigating a possible arson blaze, Stone had to revive her best hard-boiled Catherine Tramell tone to sell hokey lines such as, “Let’s cut Pizza face loose” and “Let’s light this baby up.”

If the guest star was failed by the script, Meloni and Hargitay must be wearily used to it by now; SVU has long been the most mawkish and overwrought Law & Order franchise. This week’s case was about two children dead in an apartment fire that investigators think was set by an acne-ridden pyromaniac — no, a desperate dad; no, a… aw, who cared? Stabler and Benson cared, of course: They continue to embody righteous indignation; no crime is too small to evade their angry glares and pious speeches when cuffing a perp.

L&O: SVU loves to find new kinkiness to exploit, and last night hit upon “pyrophelia” — a real condition in which the sinner gets off on fire (unfortunately literally, as we were shown tape of the jerk pleasuring himself while gazing at the apartment conflagration).

The interrogation scenes would have been almost laughable in a sitcom. In one, “Pizza Face” went into a swoony erotic trance as soon as Stabler lit a match in front of him. In another, Stabler wiped away sympathetic tears with his handerkerchief to build trust with the dead kids’ father, only to reveal to Stone and Hargitay that he’d used a wily trick I thought only worked in Bugs Bunny cartoons: He’d hidden a Bermuda onion in his hanky!

Even a stern cameo by Sam Waterston (yay, a new episode of the superior Law & Order next Monday!) or a nice brief turn by Brad Dourif as an arson expert couldn’t save the show for Stone’s debut. She got to have nice, big, table-turning scene in the final courtroom showdown, but it was too little, too late.

[From EW]

Yes, Brad Dourif – one of the greatest weirdo character actors working today – was the only good part. He specializes in playing freaks, and his hyperactive arson specialist was a great character for him. Note to producers: Cast Dourif as the ADA next, hm?

About halfway through the episode, I really began to wonder – was Sharon always this terrible an actress? Thoughts?

I was prepared to criticize Sharon Stone’s outfit for her appearance at the screening of Behind the Burly Q last night. But I actually like, sort of. It’s age appropriate, with a twist. The twist being the rather awesome fishnet tights and the leather gloves. Yes, her face looks… worked on, but it’s not like Demi Moore’s, you know? It’s not like Sharon has an entirely new, smooth, line-less face. Sharon has lines. And they look good and natural, and yet… still her face looks “fresh”. Anyway, I think it was a good appearance.

In additional Sharon news, you know how she always shows up at the Cannes Film Festival to hostess the big annual AmFar gala? She’s been hostessing the thing for years, but Roger Friedman got the scoop that Sharon wasn’t even invited to Cannes this year! This really is a scandal:

Here’s a shocker: after raising $290 million over the last several years as cheerleader extraordinaire, Sharon Stone will not be at this year’s AmFar Cinema Against AIDS gala in Cannes.

Sharon confirmed for me last night that AmFar simply didn’t invite her this year. “So I took a movie,” she said. “I had to get back to my career anyway.”

Stone will be in Thailand filming “The Burma Conspiracy” when the AmFar dinner occurs on May 20th at the Hotel du Cap in Antibes, France. Prior to this she hasn’t missed a Cinema Against AIDS dinner since it began. Her participation in the live auction is credited for raising $290 million.

“The show,” as she calls it, has been the main attraction for rich Europeans and Arabs who traveled to Cannes just to meet Stone and see her cajole millions out of celebrities and billionaires.

But two years ago, Stone’s “show” was considered over the top and some members of the AmFar board complained about it. Last year, Stone’s participation was limited to speaking just about the late Natasha Richardson. Professional auctioneer Jamie Niven took her place, although Stone’s presence was still the draw.

[From Hollywood News]

Yes, I remember hearing various stories about Sharon’s antics at Cannes, and how she would go the extra mile to get money out of people, all the while keeping all of the attention on her, of course. Could it be that AmFar was just tired of Sharon’s crazy diva behavior, even if it raised money for them? I don’t know.

Lastly, Entertainment Weekly had a little preview of Sharon’s upcoming 4-episode arc on Law & Order: SVU. Her character used to a be a cop, and she used to be Stabler’s partner. What the…?

Sharon Stone joins Law & Order: SVU on April 28 as assistant district attorney Jo Marlowe, a former cop who shares a history with Stabler. “She trained him when he was a rookie,” explains executive producer Neal Baer. “He finds out she’s the new ADA and goes, ‘Oh, man.’” In addition to possessing a wry sense of humor, Stone’s prosecutor — who will stick around for four episodes — has a knack for saying “the right wrong things,” notes Baer. “She asks Benson if she’s ever slept with Stabler. Benson’s like, ‘What? He’s married.’ Her response is, ‘Yeah…so?’”

[From EW]

Ugh. SVU has jumped the shark. Why are they doing this revolving door of ADAs? All of them suck too. Realistically, wouldn’t it be relatively easy to find some crusading women’s and children’s rights lawyer who wanted to be the SVU prosecutor? I miss that ADA from last year, the pretty blonde who was trying to make rape a hate crime.

Sharon Stone in New York on April 19, 2010. Credit: WENN.

Sharon Stone is currently filming her guest part on Law & Order: The Last Gasp of a Once Great Cop Shop. I mean, SVU. Some sources claim that Stone is going to be on SVU for one episode, but I’m pretty sure she’s got a multi-episode arc at least. This week we finally saw ADA Cabot (Stephanie March) leave the unit for greener pastures (greener pastures = prosecutor for some UN commission on international rape and sexual abuse). Since ADA Novak (Diane Neal) is nowhere to be seen (she was disbarred, right?), I guess Sharon Stone is going to be playing the unit’s latest ADA. Ah, yes, I see it now. Stone is playing a former cop-turned-lawyer for a four-episode arc.

I hate to say it, but Stone might not be a bad fit. But you can never tell with some of these guest stars. I was a big fan of Christine Lahti until her absolutely disastrous, vodka-soaked, faux-feminist character arc on SVU last fall. But then, you wouldn’t have thought Naveen Andrews as a smooth-operating, trust-fund-having, financial-crimes-unit cop would work out, but Naveen was spectacular, and I’m hoping he gets brought back. Kathy Griffin was wonderful as a lesbian-rights activist, but Mischa Barton (as an abused hooker) was horrible, just mind-numbingly terrible. So will Stone be a Lahti or a Naveen? I have no idea.

By the way, in additional SVU news, did we mention that Christopher Meloni is leaving after next season? UGH. I hate that. I love his character so much, and how much Det. Stabler has grown throughout the series. Oh, and Ann-Margret and Jaclyn Smith are going to be guesting too. Hmm… but what about Naveen?!? Maybe Naveen will come on to replace Meloni?!? Please, God.

Stone, Hargitay & Meloni on the NY set of SVU on March 18, 2010. Credit: Bauer-Griffin.