Sharon Stone / In Conversation With Jon Hamm

 

Jon Hamm and Sharon Stone, photographed by Eric Michael Roy.

“We Have This Odd Connection”: Sharon
Stone, in Conversation With Jon Hamm

By Jon Hamm

Photographed by Eric Michael Roy

November 28, 2023

“We’ve always had this odd connection where I look at you and I think, I’ve gotta figure this guy out,” Sharon Stone told Jon Hamm when he paid her a visit at her home earlier this month. The two actors are birthday twins, both born on March 10th, but that’s perhaps the least of their many symmetries, which range from shared traumas to overlapping television projects. When they got together in Beverly Hills, Hamm had just read Stone’s revealing memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice, which details her life before, and recovery from, a stroke suffered in 2001. In the ensuing years, Stone has kept busy in film, television, philanthropy and, most recently, art making, having just opened an exhibition of her paintings, on view until January 15th, at the C. Parker Gallery in Greenwich, Connecticut. “The fact that I am painting is nothing short of a miracle,” Stone said. “The fact that I sold two paintings to the neurological center where the doctor who saved my life works, for half-a-million bucks, is nothing short of a godsend.” As they caught up in Stone’s home art studio, the pair had a wide-ranging conversation about their upbringings, losing loved ones, and working with visionaries like Martin Scorsese, Gene Hackman, and Robin Williams.

Sharon Stone: “Bumble, don’t shut me out of the hive.” 
Photograph: Clemens Bilan

Sharon Stone blocked from Bumble dating app

Actor says she was blocked from the app after users reported her account profile was a fake

Ben Beaumont-Thomas

Monday 30 December 2019

She may be known as one of the sexiest women in the world, but even Sharon Stone can’t catch a break with online dating.

Writing on Twitter, the actor complained to the dating app Bumble that she had been blocked from the service after her account was deemed to be fake. “I went on the @bumble dating sight [sic] and they closed my account. Some users reported that it couldn’t possibly be me! Hey @bumble, is being me exclusionary? Don’t shut me out of the hive.”

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She included a screenshot of her account after it was closed, where a statement had been posted: “Your account has been blocked because we’ve received several reports about your profile being fake.” Bumble’s editorial director Clare O’Connor replied to Stone, unblocking her account and apologising for the error.

A Bumble representative told the Guardian the company was honoured Stone had become a member, and added: “Our apologies for the confusion … Being the icon that she is, we can understand how so many of our users felt it was too good to be true.”

Stone, 61, became a global sex symbol after the release of 1992 erotic thriller Basic Instinct, and had further film hits with Total Recall, Casino and The Quick and the Dead.

She has been married and divorced twice, and also called off another engagement. She is now single, and has three sons with whom she lives in Los Angeles. In 2018, she dated Italian real estate agent Angelo Boffa, but the pair separated, with Stone saying later that year: “I think somewhere in the back of your mind you think maybe one day you won’t be a single parent, then, eventually you realise: I think it’s better. I’m no longer hoping for someone.”

After posting her tweet to Bumble, she was inundated with replies offering dates. One post read: “If you’re ever in Buffalo and kinda dig fat guys with mustaches my DMs are open. Also own a car so willing to drive (up to 25 miles) even if ya just close by.”

THE GUARDIAN

Woody Allen to Star Opposite Sharon Stone in Film He Does Not Direct

Woody Allen to Star Opposite Sharon Stone in Film He Does Not Direct

by Julie Miller
2:00 PM, MARCH 7 2012

If you’ve been laboring over a comedy script for Woody Allen, in which the recently re-minted Oscar winner would star as a cash-strapped, neurotic pimp, put down your pencils or, more likely, your procrastination device of choice. Unfortunately, someone else is writing a very similar script, and Allen has already agreed to star. Not only that but Sharon Stone has also signed on to appear in a dermatologist/gigolo-trick capacity. Read on for more information about what promises to be a very funny indie, even if you are not attached.

Molly Lambert / The Fuck Of The Century

The Fuck Of The Century

by MOLLY LAMBERT

Basic Instinct (1992)

Wr. Joe Eszterhas

Dir. Paul Verhoeven

"You know I don't wear any underwear, don't you Nick?" - novelist Catherine Tramell

Basic Instinct is a bizarro Vertigo, which is remarkable considering that Vertigo is pretty fucking bizarro to begin with. Joe Eszterhas takes a sledgehammer to Hitchcockian tropes and the result is LURID. And I've learned that I like lurid. Eszterhas's dialogue here is as awesome as it is in Showgirls, with side characters prone to tossing out lines like "there's cum stains all over the sheets" to remind you that this is a SEXY R RATED MOVIE. It's mostly silly and sporadically legitimately hot.