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Stone's Dior Campaign Axed In China
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AP Photo/Noah Berger
Sharon Stone has suffered another blow after her comments following
China's recent earthquake -- French fashion house Christian Dior has
axed her promotional posters in the country.
The actress has come under attack from officials in China for
suggesting the country's recent earthquake was caused by "karma," and
a leading cinema chain has term life insurance threatened to ban her films.
But now bosses at Christian Dior have banned ads featuring the star in
China.
A spokesman at the company's Shanghai headquarters said, "We don't
agree with her hasty, unreflecting remarks and we deeply regret them.
"Dior was one of the first international brands cheap renters insurance enter China and has
won the affection and respect of the consuming custom faces playing cards We absolutely
do not support any remark that hurts the Chinese people's feelings."
Meanwhile, Stone herself has apologized for the interview.
She said in a statement: "Due to my inappropriate words and acts
during the interview, I feel deeply sorry and sad about hurting
Chinese people.
"I am willing to take part in the relief work of China's multiple insurance quotes and wholly devote myself to helping affected Chinese people."
The outspoken actress was talking to a Chinese media outlet when she
linked the recent disaster, which left more than 67,000 people dead,
to China's recent treatment of Tibetans.
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karma...
Posted By: g0m0 | May 29 2008 at 03:05 PM
You are OK by me, Sharon, as I do believe in what goes around, comes
around.
Posted By: SoozeeQ | May 29 2008 at 03:08 PM
Okay, Sharon; is that karma I see biting you in the ass?
Posted By: mammamia | May 29 2008 at 03:12 PM
If ever she dies in a tsunami, we can assume it was karma. Just look
at all the dead sea creatures she's displaying around her neck.
Posted By: royalblood2 | May 29 2008 at 03:19 PM
Karma has hit back. She deserves what she got. It's unfortunate that
you can't take back what you say, but she said it and she needs to
suffer the consequences. These actors and actresses need to learn that
they are just that, actors and actresses and not spokes people for
everyone. They think that what they say is the truth and that they
shouldn't suffer any consequences. Well, as Sharon Stone is about to
find out, her lucritive contract is probably coming to an end. Don't
worry fans, the public forgets quickly and she'll be back just like
Kate Moss.
Posted By: watsdamattau | May 29 2008 at 03:27 PM
Her face lift makes her look more like Jessica Lange now, quickly
approaching the Faye Dunaway horror mask... now that is karma.
Posted By: PreciousB | May 29 2008 at 03:30 PM
They're going to ban her movies? What movies???
Posted By: guiness4me | May 29 2008 at 03:31 PM
Her only claim to fame is that she showed the world her whisker
biscuit in a movie over 15 years ago. Next.
Posted By: FrankCostanza | May 29 2008 at 03:42 PM
she's independent style into catwoman plastic surgery territory there... she's
gonna morph into Lil Kim soon.
Posted By: shaboo | May 29 2008 at 03:42 PM
Judging from her neckwear, Sharon is dumping "karma" in favor of
"voodoo"...
Posted By: news2me | May 29 2008 at 03:45 PM
karma at work
Posted By: randy0023 | May 29 2008 at 03:49 PM
If you believe in Karma then how about those victims during the
Katrina disaster in New Orleans? Or the recent natural disasters
happening in the midwest? I will be the biggest idiot in the world if
I said SF had so many earthquakes is because of all the gay people
live there and God said that is a sin. I guess that is Karma. By the
way, there are more straight people living in the Bay Area than gay
people. By the way, I'm straight but I have gay and lesbian friends.
Most of the monks that were hurt caused by the Indonesian police. Get
the facts straight Sharon. What did the victims of the earthquake do
to the monks? I don't see any Karma for all the problems the oil
companies caused in this world. Where's the Karma?
Those who caused the problems in China, are the Chinese officials.
They really don't care much for their people. If you have not lived in
China for 10 years you would not understand. Karma has not happened
yet, Sharon!
Posted By: thirdparty3 | May 29 2008 at 03:49 PM
I totally support her comments as foolish as she was to say them.
Atleast she was honest. Is everyone forgetting the Olympic torch run
and energy fed into emo clothes protest against China? It was streetwear clothes unPC
to not being against China then and now it's not okay to express what
assholes they are? The Media is a bunch of hypocrites, along with
Christian Dior's people.
Posted By: DIRTYDISH | May 29 2008 at 03:51 PM
her whisker biscuit?? rofl Is that what they call it in Gawgia? FC,
you have ruined breakfast for me forever!
Posted By: mammamia | May 29 2008 at 03:52 PM
what? she's not going to rehab?
Posted By: sfgdd | May 29 2008 at 03:59 PM
Who is Sharon Stone? Is it that old bag that hasn't made a movie in
100 yrs? A "Has Been" that never was!101098
Posted By: frgeezer | May 29 2008 at 04:01 PM
so much for free speech. what's icelands karma. bjork? hahaha JUST
KIDDING people!
Posted By: clubber_lang | May 29 playing cards promotional at 04:03 PM
Class A Imbecile = Sharon Stone.
What does Karma have to do with the victims in China? DIRTYDISH, get
your logic straight. Read up what is Karma by what the Lama said in
his book.
Posted By: thirdparty3 | May 29 2008 at 04:05 PM
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Posted By: saywut | May 29 2008 at 04:16 PM
To watsdamattau:
Kate Moss got drop from the Ads for sniffling in white powder caught
on camera only. She did not committed bad karma of inhumanity in words
caught right on Tap. Ms. Stone did. Kate Moss did not got labeled as
"the public enemy of all mankind" by the Chinese media. Ms. Stone did.
Kate Moss did not have political spiritual ambition or make such a
political spiritual big damn fool of herself. Ms. Stone did. Kate Moss
is much younger. Ms. Stone is 50. The odd is not very good for Ms.
Stone.
Posted By: karmasaga | May 29 2008 at 04:35 PM
To PreciousB:
She does look like Jessica Lang but only has half, perhaps less, of
JL's acting talents. And jessica Lang would never say foolish things
like her.
Posted By: karmasaga | May 29 2008 at 04:38 PM
sharon rules! says Bronstein
Posted By: xbbgun | May 29 2008 at 04:44 PM
Actually Mammamia, I'm a Cali guy who lived in GA for a while years
ago. But come to think of it, Georgia is where I first heard the term
Whisker Biscuit!
Posted By: FrankCostanza | May 29 2008 at 04:52 PM
There were more than 15000 Tibetan Chinese who perished in the
epicenter of the quake alone, plus numerous others living in the
mountainous regions of Sichuan, China. In one mountain, the merciless
quake buried the thousands of villagers there. Regardless whether they
are Tibetan or Han Chinese (to me they are the same), we should
grieve, help where we can, and feel love and compassion rather than
pass such satanic remarks. Hey! Who is this poker cards year old bitch anyway?!
Posted By: jsfriedman_001 | May 29 2008 at 04:52 PM
She was in renters insurance movie with Richard Gere along time ago. He probably told
her to say that.
Posted By: cornwinder | May 29 2008 at 04:57 PM
is that a Malwaian necklace?
Posted By: xbbgun | May 29 2008 at 04:57 PM
trying to cover up the chicken neck.
Posted By: ko1966 | May 29 2008 at 05:05 PM
"sharon rules! says Bronstein"
Bad karma thing to say Bronstein. That's why learn chinese chicago got bitten by a
lizard. Was it one of your toes?
Posted By: karmasaga | May 29 2008 at 05:07 PM
If BMoreJake and our long lost spammer had a kid they'd name it
Karmasaga...
Posted By: news2me | May 29 2008 at 05:20 PM
Do we have to go through all this tiresome noise AGAIN? Some of these
newbies need to learn how to merge into the Dish jump rope.
Posted By: MrG | May 29 2008 at 05:22 PM
This is so sick. Regardless of what she said, China is getting a 5
star treatment. Would you do the same when the country name changes to
Nigeria or Afghanistan?
Looks like freedom of speech and all that good stuff is all hogwash
when your market is 1.3 billion. Then it is just bend over backwards
and fulfill their every whim and fantasy.
What did happen to Tibet, may I ask? Oh yeah, who cares. That is jumbo playing cards a few million compared to the 1.3 billion that is holding it captive.
Posted By: debbie07 | May 29 2008 at 06:01 PM
her Dior campaign has been axed, but fortunately, she still has the
job [and free cases] from Absolut Vodka.
That's her 3-martini face
Posted By: geek_z | May 29 2008 at 06:47 PM
They axed her to leave. Didn't know Christian Dior was black.
If only she was a nuclyoolur scientist maybe she could'a gotten a job
at the White House.
Posted By: hipsterdoofus | May 29 2008 at 07:31 PM
debbie07:
This is what happened to Tibet: Daila Lama's Tibet was a theocracy in
which millions of Tibetans were `serfs'---slaves whose owners held
deed on them. The Central government wanted to abonish his system.
Guess who revolted? You are right --- the slave owners! Who fled to
India? and who have been advocating the `independence' of Tibet? You
are right again --- The slave owners, the theocrats, the
monastery-landowners! Dalai Lama appears `hollier' now only because he
is living on other people land.
Tibetans are as free or as prssed as the Han majority. I do advocate
the greater rights for ALL Chinese, but using the Tibetan issue for
that goal leads to nowhere. Tibet has always been a part of China;
there was never a compassionate, democratic, multi-religious Tibet
under Dalai Lama nor it can be under any theocracy.
Ask youself this question: do you want to take out a deed on your body
and hand it to someone else to own it? Or how about abonish the part
of the US constitution that separates the church from the state? That
was precisely what Dalai Lama's Tibet was. The Chinese Communists have
done a lot indefensible things, but their getting rid of Dalai Lama's
version of slavery is definitely not one of them.
Study the history before joining the Tibetan exiles cause, because it
might not be what you are wishing for.
Posted By: best car insurance | May 29 2008 at 07:55 PM
Very Faye Dunaway photo of SS.
Posted By: mrkette | May 29 2008 at 08:02 PM
I doubt the tens of thousands of grade-school aged Chinese children
buried alive or crushed slowly to death in the rubble were heavily
implicated in beating up Tibetan monks.
In fact - this just in! - the Chinese government also represses the
CHINESE. (70,000,000 dead in Mao's heyday, by some estimates.)
Sharon Stone should keep her beak shut, the vacuous old slapper.
Posted By: theprof | May 29 2008 at 08:58 PM
I still love you!
Posted By: Candygram | May 29 2008 at 09:18 PM
A HOLLYWOOD HICCUP?
This was said with some aforethought, just not much chinese chicago it.
America is looking to improve its image around the world, and this is
not the kind of help it needs.
http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2008/05/hollywood-polishing-americas-image.html
Posted By: pacificgatepost | May 29 2008 at 10:56 PM
hmmmmm...... there are many people dislike the Chinese and their
government in general with or without a sound reason anyway. People
believe in what they want to believe, indie clothing what's the truth. They want
to believe what they think is the truth. So the flip side of the coin
is that Ms. Stone might do very well, possibly better than ever in
those countries in general. No? Say like France oui? Because as the
saying goes no celebrity is bad celebrity.
Posted By: ricecake | May 29 2008 at 11:24 PM
why is our man in nirvana, Mr Dalai Lama,
keeping suspiciously quiet ? He should
rein in that bunch of western lifestyle buddhist. oh,it's the
donations, stupid !
Posted By: OurManInNirvana | May 30 2008 at 12:23 AM
"whisker biscuit" - hilarious! Simmmbbbaaaa...
Posted By: LizardofOz | May 30 2008 at 03:02 AM
It's understandable that Dior had to drop her from their campaign;
otherwise, they might lose their privileged access to six-year-old
Chinese sweatshop laborers to turn out their overpriced tat.
Posted By: sftroybob | May 30 2008 at 03:40 AM
Ha...maybe it's a southern thing, Frank C. We had a local Fla DJ who
went by that monicker, no sh*t. And I agree, I can't think of another
decent movie she's ever done. Not to mention she drips from head to
toe in fur half the time, so karma-whise, she'll prob come back in her
next life as a mink.
Posted By: pinkblonde | May 30 2008 at 04:10 AM
I'm all for you Sharon. You were simple enough to blurt out what other
people only had the courage to think in silence or whisper to friends.
For the decades-long genocide in Tibet the earthquake is a minor
karmic retribution. There is surely more on the way unless the Chinese
government does not change its barbaric ways. You go girl!
Posted By: karmickey | May 30 2008 at 05:23 AM
So this crane that just crashed into a building on the Upper East Side
of New York.
Maybe that's karma for making the new 'Sex In The City' movie.
Posted By: gimmebigbreak | May 30 2008 at 05:52 AM
Just shut up, Sharon. Your damage control is like pouring Listerine
into an open cut.
Posted By: fenriq | May 30 2008 at 10:26 AM
Way to go Sharon! Karma is heading to your direction! The invasion of
Iraq, hundred of thousand of innocent civillians got killed there will
catch you soon, don't you think???
Posted By: Simpleguy | May 30 2008 at 01:13 PM
The sad issue is that her comments greatly hurt all the chinese people
who are experiencing huge loss of life , pets, communities and are
trying to do support the victims with love and compassion. These
comments were made at an elegant international public event and it
creates huge negativity for Americans. I feel saddened that Sharon
Stone's comments hurt so many Chinese and I don't think there is
anyway for her to salvage her career or reputation in China ...
Posted By: polopony | May 30 2008 at 02:31 PM
Look I think enough is enough China! Now show you are a group of
people who are kind, civilized, and forgiving please. I believe the
Chinese people are forgiving as I forgive lot people who had hurt me
and my families my friends during the cultural revolution. Ms. Stone
should deserve a chance to do the right thing because she apologized
and she want to help out the earthquake. So why not let her try? You
lot of people in China had cultural revolution blood and many
political movements blood on your hands before. You were all given a
second change. Why not Ms. Stone, she only say wrong thing but she did
not commit any atrocities hands cheap life insurance like many of you guys once or more
than once did.
Come on people, show your kindness. Anymore angers do you no good.
Anger induce more anger.
Posted By: olddevil | May 30 promotional playing cards at 03:01 PM
Look I think enough is enough China! Now show you are a group of
people who are kind, civilized, and forgiving please. I believe the
Chinese people are forgiving as I forgive lot people who had hurt me
and my families my friends during the cultural revolution. Ms. Stone
should deserve a chance to do the right thing because she apologized
and she want to help out the earthquake. So why not let her try?
Lots of you people in China had cultural revolution blood and many
political movements blood on your hands before. You were all given a
second chance. Why not Ms. Stone, she only said wrong things but she
did not commit any atrocities best insurance on like many of you guys once or
more than once did.
Come on my chinese fellow people, show your kindness and forgiveness
to the world. Show you are good a group of good people. Anymore angers
do you no good. Anger only induces more anger. Excess anger is 1000
time dangerous and make the Chinese people look crazy like savages as
a nation.
Posted By: olddevil | May 30 2008 at 03:50 PM
Sharon's doing the "hind lick maneuver"
Posted By: couplewords | May 30 2008 at 04:32 PM
To those people who still think there is a karmic truth of her
statement:
cheap car insurance The epicenter is on the border of the Aba Tibetan Autonomous Region
which consists of 80% Tebetans. The death toll in Aba alone is a
shocking 20,124! and counting. See the tally below:
http://english.sina.com/china/1/2008/0530/164567.html
2. Had Ms. Stone known this fact, she probably would not have thought
of the karmatic connection. But cheap insurance for people like herself who is
capable of even entertaining such a thought, God help! If there were
some truth to the karmic theology, it would only apply to her kind of
people.
3. It is even more astonishing that her Tibetan 'friends' did not
point out that fact to her when asking her help. But again, no
surprise here. Their goal is the return of Dalai Lama's theocracy in
Tibet and regain their ex-serfs. Their means is to spin the media, to
manipulate fools like her.
4. With a hugely disproportionate casualty to Tibetans, what did Dalai
Lama do? The samo samo --- tour European capitals to fool more people
like Ms. Stone. Meanwhile, his Hollywood friends -- Sharon Stone in
particular -- are doing their best by only debating if they should
help. No surprise here! To Dalai Lama and his exile slave owners,
their Tibetan subjects have always been just another serf --- whose
worth is as whole life insurance as or less than the dirt that they used to own. Dalai
Lama's brand of compassion? Give me a break!
4. Giving her the benefit of doubt, Ms. Stone would have not had her
infamous karma moment if she knew the quake victum fact. Can we say
the same if Dalai Lama's Hollywood friends -- she included -- have
learned some Tibetan history? What are they advocating? To me, nothing
short of theocracy and slavery -- inter-racial (Tibetan-to-Tibetan)
slavery to be precise. Shame on them all.
There are many atrocities committed by the Communist Party to all
people of China. Getting rid of Dalai Lama's Tibetan slavery is not
one of them. If you realy concern about liberty and human right of
Tibetans, join the fight for all Chinese people. The train of Tibetan
exile's cause goes nowhere!
Dalai Lama appears hollier only because he now lives on other people's
land -- no land to own and no serf to own. Sharon Stone's karma moment
exposed only the tip of an iceberg that is the igorant mass captured
and used by the Tibetan extremists whose real goal has always been the
return of theocracy and slavery to Tibet.
Posted By: DD100 | May 30 2008 at 08:24 PM
Very enlightening DD100! May be those jaded movie stars think slavery
is interesting and sexy plus kinky.
Posted By: karmasaga | May 30 2008 at 08:54 PM
Are 9/11 and Katrina God's acts, karmonic retributions for all the
atrocities committed by US in Iraq and worldwide?
Posted By: pc0007 | May 30 2008 at 09:27 PM
Was Holocaust another God's act, karma?
Posted By: pc0007 | best life insurance 30 2008 at 09:33 PM
It's astonishing how few people have read what Sharon Stone ACTUALLY
SAID & MEANT......
When asked to how she felt about the quake in China, she said:
“Well you know it was very interesting because at first, you know, I
am not happy about the ways the Chinese were treating the Tibetans
because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. And so I
have been very concerned about how to think and what to do about that
because I don’t like that. And I had been this, you know, concerned
about, oh how should we deal with the Olympics because they are not
being nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a good friend of mine.
And all these earthquake and stuff happened and I thought: Is that
karma, when you are not nice that bad things happen to you?
And then I got a letter, from the Tibetan Foundation that they want to
go and be helpful. And that made me cry. And they ask me if I would
write a quote about that and I said, “I would.” And it was a big
lesson to me, that some times you have to learn to put your head down
and be of service even to people who are not nice to you. And that’s a
big lesson for me...”
So she was explaining a lesson learnt in Buddhism: "be kind to people
even they're harsh to you"
And what's wrong with that ???
By the way I read in news some years back that Sharon Stone has the
highest IQ among all of hollywood's actresses :140+
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