Celebrities join campaigners in call for cheaper version of ‘gamechanger’ HIV drug for poorer countries
Letter urges US company Gilead Sciences to ‘shape history’ by providing fair access
March 2024
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Stop body-shaming men over penis size
Letters: Sharon Stone interview | 1930s royal photo manipulation | At snail’s pace | Maternity music | Spending a penny or 40
‘We don’t need more small-penis energy’… Sharon Stone on why she swapped acting for art
At 66, Stone is no longer offered roles worthy of her talents – so she paints up to 17 hours a day. She opens up about Hollywood, her tough upbringing and letting her ‘creative faucet flow’
Sharon Stone names producer who ‘told her to sleep with co-star’
Actor says Hollywood mogul Robert Evans told her to have sex with William Baldwin while filming Sliver
February 2024
‘Power of a woman’: Sharon Stone and Françoise Hardy offer inspiration at Tom Ford
Creative director Peter Hawkings dips into predecessor Ford’s playbook with high-voltage glamour and sex appeal
March 2023
Sharon Stone says she lost custody of her son because of scene in Basic Instinct
Actor says divorce judge asked her young son: ‘Do you know your mother makes sex movies?’
January 2023
Saturday Night Live recap
Saturday Night Live: Aubrey Plaza hosts standout cameo-packed episode
The White Lotus star makes for an impressive host in a week that sees Sharon Stone, Amy Poehler, Allison Williams and, surprisingly, Joe Biden pop up
June 2022
Campaigners welcome Sharon Stone’s decision to talk about her miscarriages
Actor’s comments described as ‘a gift’ that will help other women
May 2022
Stream team
Sharon Stone! Leonardo DiCaprio! Sam Raimi’s The Quick and the Dead deserves your time
This 1995 western has been widely overlooked but it is good camp fun, starring Stone as a mysterious woman who enters a gunslinger contest in an outlaw town
April 2022
Guardian Australia Reads
Taking inspiration from Chrissy Amphlett, Sharon Stone’s stunt double, and a diving superwoman
The Guide newsletter
The Guide #30: It’s time for Hollywood to bring back the erotic thriller
March 2022
Basic Instinct at 30: a lurid throwback to when Hollywood still took risks
Putin’s Hollywood pals – the stars who snuggled up to the Russian dictator
March 2021
Sharon Stone: cosmetic surgeon enlarged my breasts without consent
New memoir claims the actor has faced ill-treatment at the hands of doctors, the film industry and her own grandfather
August 2020
Sharon Stone blames mask refuseniks as sister is hospitalised with Covid
Actor blames ‘non-mask wearers’ for sister Kelly Stone’s condition and calls on viewers to support Joe Biden and Kamala Harris in US presidential run
June 2020
Total Recall at 30: a thrilling reminder of Paul Verhoeven at his best
The 1990 adaptation of a Philip K Dick short story slickly combined biting satire with a deliriously entertaining Arnold Schwarzenegger action thriller
January 2020
Names in the news
Sharon Stone: bumbling dating app is no match for a true star
Rebecca Nicholson
This was no impostor – this really was the star of Basic Instinct
December 2019
Sharon Stone blocked from Bumble dating app
Actor says she was blocked from the app after users reported her account profile was a fake
November 2019
Seen but not heard: why don't women speak in The Irishman?
Scorsese has created provocative roles for women. But with only six words in his latest film, Anna Paquin’s moral spectre is a sign of a troubling trend in Hollywood
July 2019
Sharon Stone: I was forgotten like Princess Diana after I had a stroke
Actor says it took seven years to recover from illness that first struck in 2001, during which time the actor says she was treated with ‘brutal unkindness’ by Hollywood
