Sharon Stone “Sucks The Big One” For Anti-China Remarks
Yes, proof, once again, that Hollywood celebrities really are the best foreign relations and foreign policy experts … and how we pee-ons, including Pres. Bush, really should listen to them on ALL things.
Sharon Stone apologises for China quake ‘karma’ remark
Hollywood star Sharon Stone has apologised for suggesting China’s earthquake was bad “karma” for its handling of Tibet, but Christian Dior on Thursday dropped her from its local ads amid a public uproar.
The 50-year-old US actress offered to help with relief efforts after the May 12 quake that killed nearly 70,000 people, in an effort to smooth over tensions sparked by her controversial comments at the Cannes Film Festival last week.
“My erroneous words and deeds angered and saddened the Chinese people, and I sincerely apologise for this,” she said in a statement issued by Dior China and sent to AFP on Thursday.
“I’m willing to participate in any earthquake relief activity and to do my utmost to help Chinese people affected by the disaster,” she added.
But Dior said Stone — who promotes the French luxury brand’s anti-ageing skin-care line, among other products — would no longer appear in its ads in China.
“In light of the negative reaction that Sharon Stone’s inappropriate remarks have triggered, Dior China has decided to immediately cancel and stop any advertisements, marketing campaigns and commercial activities associated with Sharon Stone,” it said.
Stone — perhaps best known for her starring role in “Basic Instinct” — sparked the controversy last week, which has angered people across China and led to pledges by some cinemas here to boycott her films.
“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else,” Stone said, according to footage widely available on YouTube.
“And then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and I thought, is that karma — when you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”
The remarks sparked an uproar in China, where people are in no hurry to forgive her, according to a survey published on the popular web portal www.qq.com.
Of the more than 300,000 who had participated in the survey by late Thursday, 70.3 percent said they would “never forgive” Stone, while 20.5 percent did not accept her apology because “it was not sincere”.
Another 8.7 percent said an apology was useless and it was necessary to observe her actions, while a mere 0.6 percent said they were satisfied by her apology.
Before pulling Stone from its ads, Christian Dior’s China branch had already distanced itself from her comments.
“We don’t agree with her hasty, unreflecting remarks and we deeply regret them,” Dior said in a Chinese-language statement.
“Dior was one of the first international brands to enter China and has won the affection and respect of the consuming public. We absolutely do not support any remark that hurts the Chinese people’s feelings.
“We express our sorrow over the compatriots who lost their lives in the earthquake in Wenchuan, Sichuan, and we extend our sympathy and condolences to the people in the disaster area.”
Tibet was rocked by unrest in March. According to aides of the Tibetan spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, 203 Tibetans were killed and 1,000 injured in China’s subsequent crackdown in the Himalayan region.
But China says Tibetan “rioters” and “insurgents” killed 21 people, and has accused the Dalai Lama of trying to sabotage the Beijing Olympics — a charge he denies.
On May 12, a massive earthquake struck China’s southwest Sichuan province, leaving nearly 88,000 people dead or missing.
(AFP)
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Oops, Dior contract cancelled, affects her income. Oh well, she’s a socialist anyway. Now we know how to make Hollywood starlet bow and scrape–take away their $.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:17 pmSharon Stone as always prove how insignificant a bug she truly is, and how quickly she changes her tune when the almighty dollar of the country her and her ilk despise so much is taken away.
May 29th, 2008 at 12:26 pmHollyweird stars are no stars at all. They have nothing to say that I want to hear; their movies suck anyways. I don’t buy their stuff, I don’t smoke their dope, or sing their praises. Hollyweird could burn down tomorrow and all the so-called stars die…and I could care less.
Worth repeating:
“A real star is the soldier of the 4th Infantry Division who poked his head into a hole on a farm near Tikrit, Iraq. He could have been met by a bomb or a hail of AK-47 bullets. Instead, he faced an abject Saddam Hussein and the gratitude of all of the decent people of the world. A real star is the U.S. soldier who was sent to disarm a bomb next to a road north of Baghdad. He approached it, and the bomb went off and killed him. A real star, the kind who haunts my memory night and day, is the U.S. soldier in Baghdad who saw a little girl playing with a piece of unexploded ordnance on a street near where he was guarding a station. He pushed her aside and threw himself on it just as it exploded. He left a family desolate in California and a little girl alive in Baghdad. The stars who deserve media attention are not the ones who have lavish weddings on TV but the ones who patrol the streets of Mosul even after two of their buddies were murdered and their bodies battered and stripped for the sin of trying to protect Iraqis from terrorists. We put couples with incomes of $100 million a year on the covers of our magazines. The noncoms and officers who barely scrape by on military pay but stand on guard in Afghanistan and Iraq and on ships and in submarines and near the Arctic Circle are anonymous as they live and die.” —Ben Stein
May 29th, 2008 at 2:45 pmI heard that’s how she got the lead role in the film “Basic Instinct”.
Pat, is that true?
May 29th, 2008 at 4:20 pm