n Sharon Stone first made the movie grade of hyperbole as the ice-axe wielding bisexual who took great pride in not wearing sensible M&S briefs. This lack of undergarment helped Shazza enormously in the ''controversy'' stakes when publicising Paul Verhoeven's Basic Instinct. The downside was that she had to conduct a convincing number of saucy scenes with self-confessed sexaholic, Michael Douglas. But don't mess with underpantless Shazza. She boasts: ''They call me Sharon Stones because I've got the biggest balls in Hollywood! It's good I scare studio bosses!'' Scary!
n Life wasn't always this glamorous for Sharon Stone. Oh no. It took our gal 15 lean years of crawling through trashy B-movies and straight to video classics before clawing to the giddy heights of today's Sphere blockbusters. But La Stone is a tad discreet when it comes to mentioning her breakthrough movies, Instinct and tonight's Sliver. ''The sex thriller days have come to an end,'' she insists. ''Either they're over or I'm not making movies.''
n We could get even more bitchy on the tumultuous love lives of Sharon. Yes, we know the 40-year-old actress just married San Franciscan newspaper man, 47-year-old Phil Bornstein on Valentine's Day this year but a quagmire of broken hearts and one prior marriage lie in his wake. So bad were things at Stony Heart Central that the lady confessed to contemplating paying a professional match-maker $100,000 to find a suitable husband before she hit 40.
n Let's see: there was Mr Boring, Kevin Costner, then there was movie head honcho Barry Josephson. But Bazza and Shazza didn't click due to Shazza's so-called ''neurotic'' behaviour and unchecked ego. Then there was Sliver co-producer Bill MacDonald and 27-year-old Bob Wagner who reputedly had a similar ''feverish personality'' to Stone. They hit the dust just before Troy Aikman, quarterback of the Super-Bowl winning Dallas Cowboys. Even her Casino co-star Robert de Niro was said to light a fire in the hormonal heart of the actress. ''He kissed me right out of my shoes,'' she swooned. Phew! Good thing the moustachioed Phil newspaper man rescued Stone just in time.
Ah yes, to achieve the fine physical structure of Sharon Stone one needs to work out six days a week: one hour aerobics and half-an-hour weight training.
Sharon Stone is in Sliver on BBC1 at 10.15pm
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