Heart of stone

It is a brave actor who dares to speak publicly about politics, current affairs, poverty or the environment. "What do actors know about anything?" cry the media pundits, "Talking down to us from their ivory towers." True, there are plenty of artistes with little in the way of brains between their ears but that is true of any profession or walk of life. There are plenty of bright people working in the entertainment industry who have as informed opinions as anyone else who works and pays their taxes.

And then there is Sharon Stone's profound insights on the earthquakes in China:

"Well, you know, it's very interesting because at first I'm, you know, not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don't think anyone should be unkind to anyone else; and so I've been very concerned about how to think and what to do about that because I don't like... that.

"And then I've been, you know, concerned about, 'Oh, how shall we deal with the Olympics?' because they're not being nice to the Dalai Lama who's a good friend of mine.

"And then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened and I thought, 'Is that karma? When you're not nice then the bad things happen to you?'

"And then I got a letter from the Tibetan Foundation that they wanted to go and be helpful and that made me cry. And they asked me if I would write a quote about that and I said that I would, that it was a big lesson to me, that sometimes you have to learn to put your head down and be of service even if people who aren't nice to you... and that that's a big lesson for me."

You can watch the clip for yourselves here if you can stomach it.

Apparently, Sharon Stone can be a cunt on screen without crossing her legs.

Jimmy Page hurts little finger!

This is apparently what passes for big news these days.