What are your thoughts on Sharon Stone’s comment about the China earthquake?
Wed May 28, 5:57 AM ET
LOS ANGELES – Sharon Stone’s “karma” comment is having an instant effect on her movie-star status in China.
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The 50-year-old actress suggested last week that the devastating May 12 earthquake in China could have been the result of bad karma over the government’s treatment of Tibet. That prompted the founder of one of China’s biggest cinema chains to say his company would not show her films in his theaters, according to a story in The Hollywood Reporter.
“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 Thursday during a Cannes Film Festival red-carpet interview with Hong Kong’s Cable Entertainment News. “And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”
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Sharon Stone: Was China quake ‘bad karma? Your thought?
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Sharon Stone’s “karma” comment is having an instant effect on her movie-star status in China.
The 50-year-old actress suggested last week that the devastating May 12 earthquake in China could have been the result of bad karma over the government’s treatment of Tibet. That prompted the founder of one of China’s biggest cinema chains to say his company would not show her films in his theaters, according to a story in The Hollywood Reporter.
“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 Thursday during a Cannes Film Festival red-carpet interview with Hong Kong’s Cable Entertainment News. “And then this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”
Ng See-Yuen, founder of the UME Cineplex chain and the chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Filmmakers, called Stone’s comments “inappropriate,” adding that actors should not bring personal politics to comments about a natural disaster that has left five million Chinese homeless, according to the Reporter.
UME has branches in Beijing, Shanghai, Chongqing, Hangzhou and Guangzhou, China’s biggest urban movie markets.
During the brief interview, which has also surfaced on YouTube, Stone also said she cried when she received a letter from the Tibetan Foundation asking her to help quake victims.
“They wanted to go and be helpful, and that made me cry,” she said. “It was a big lesson to me that sometimes you have to learn to put your head down and be of service even to people who aren’t nice to you.”
Wow. Talk about a bad timing and choice of words?! ( o _ 0 ) Sharon, Sharon, Sharon. Compared to you, Paris Hilton belongs in the ” American Mensa Society.” Paris is still a bone head! ( ^ _ ^ )
Media Release
Published: Monday, 12 May, 2008
I am deeply saddened by the loss of many lives and many more who have been injured in the catastrophic earthquake that struck Sichuan province of China. I would like to extend my deep sympathy and heartfelt condolences to those families who have been directly affected by the strong earthquake on 12 May 2008. I offer my prayers for those who have lost their lives and those injured in the quake.
The Dalai Lama
May 13, 2008
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Reuters
BEIJING (Reuters) – Luxury retailer Christian Dior has pulled advertisements featuring Sharon Stone from stores across China after the actress suggested the country’s earthquake was “bad karma” for Beijing’s policies in Tibet.
At least 68,000 people died in the May 12 quake in southwest China, which came months after unrest in Tibet that sparked an international outcry over Beijing’s handling of the predominantly Buddhist region, which Communist troops entered in 1950.
“Due to some customer reaction we have decided to pull her image from all of the department stores and from all of China,” Christian Dior China said in a statement.
Stone has a modeling contract with the cosmetics arm of the luxury retailer for which newly rich China is a fast-growing market.
“We just want our customers and fans to realize that her personal comments are not related to the company and of course we don’t support any type of commentary that will hurt the feelings of our customers,” Dior said.
The Beijing Times reported that Chinese cinemas would not show Stone’s films, though China already strictly limits the number of foreign movies it distributes in theatres.
Her movies include “Basic Instinct” in 1992 and “Casino” and “The Quick and the Dead,” both in 1995.
Stone apologized for her comments in remarks carried in Chinese media on Thursday.
“In the course of the interview I made inappropriate remarks and for any harm created towards the Chinese people I am extremely sad and apologize,” the Beijing News quoted Stone as saying in a Chinese translation of her statement.
China’s Foreign Ministry also weighed in on the controversy.
“We hope that as an American actress she can contribute to our two people’s trust, understanding and friendship,” spokesman Qin Gang told a news conference.
In Stone’s initial remarks made on the red carpet at the Cannes film festival, she called the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism — whom China reviles as a traitor — a “good friend.”
After mentioning the Tibet unrest she said in the comment replayed on video-sharing Web site 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?”
Chinese bloggers, who were particularly active in criticizing the West over its attitude towards Tibet, have exploded in anger over Stone’s comments.
“Don’t give any attention to this old lady — don’t watch her movies, don’t buy the products she represents,” read one.
Another called her a “dirty swine.”
In response to a China Daily story on Stone, one reader wrote, “All Chinese should boycott her to let her know our power … She should go to hell.”