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It doesn’t matter how big-time you used to be. (And she was.) Or are talented you are. (And she is.) But when thesps treat people badly, and believe their own publicity, and change agents like wardobes, and throw tantrums on sets, and act like a pig in sequel negotiations, then one day they find themselves permanently moving from film to TV. Trust me, Sharon Stone can’t get arrested for big film roles these days. Too bad, because she could be having Meryl Streep’s career. (No, I’m not kidding. She’s got the chops.) So now NBC announced today that Sharon Stone is joining Law & Order: SVU in a 4-episode guest-starring arc as a prosecutor. Talk about karma. Now she toils for another nasty piece of work, Dick Wolf. They deserve each other.
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While I agree that treating everyone with respect and behaving nicely on set is important, there’s no need to insult TV. Some of the best work is being done on the small screen week in and week out. I’d much rather have 22 -24 episodes of complex, entertaining drama/mystery/action shows than maybe a two hour movie that is hit or miss.
I wouldn’t rather have 22-24 episodes of hardly anything, actually. That’s not sarcasm, I really mean that.
I don’t think it’s insulting TV, it’s pointing out where a one time big film star is headed.–because only a handful of people can ever be members of that film STAR (not actor) club.
Hard to muster any empathy for this as Stone will be gainfully employed for 4 episodes on a very popular series. Need I remind anyone that Streep accepted a role and performed it flawlessly for HBO’s offering of “Angels in America” some years back. In a recent interview, Streep commented that she was more than willing to play to a largely ignored audience of women over the age of 45. I’d say that was very shrewd marketing on her part.
The last time Dick Wolf worked was the L&O pilot –
Nikke…….when did you become a casting agent/manager. Sharon Stone has been a pain in the ass going all the way back to her days co-starring with Richard Chamberlain in those awful Indiana Jones rip off movies. You can only get by with talent for so long. Trust me, the L&O writers have already written that very special episode where she gets rolled over by a sex offending truck driver!
Cadenze — are you actually suggesting that a one-time appearance playing multiple characters in a Mike Nichols film of one of the most revered plays of a generation alongside the likes of Al Pacino and Emma Thompson is somehow equivalent to a guest starring role on a longrunning TV series? Really?
I think Charlize Theron might be a better example than Streep. Stone and Theron just have more in common as performers. What kind of tantrums did Stone throw though? I didn’t know about this.
Amen, I couldn’t agree more with John… just report the news already.
Nice to see Nikki show how out of touch she is by perpetuating the OLD cliche that movies are somehow better than television. That is like comparing movies to books. They are two completely different mediums. Much of television is crap – but then so are about half of the movies that are made. Ask anyone, from writers to actors to crew, who has worked even one episode of television which is the more challenging medium and they will answer “TV.” I have more respect for an actor who can entertain me for forty-two minutes in a $3 million episode of television made in 12 days than some idiot hopping around the big screen for 2 hours in a piece of crap that took 3 months to film and cost $50 million to make. Sharon Stone issues aside, this article is crap Nikki.
Yeah, but it’s easy to turn on the tv with your remote control and not so easy to get people into a theater.
It’s apples and oranges…it’s not good TV vs. bad movies we’re discussing. It’s a CAREER shift from a once-upon-a-time leading lady to a guest role on TV–and it doesn’t guarantee it’s gonna “entertain” you either.
THANK YOU! I’d rather watch 45 minutes of Glee than suffer through 3 hours of Nine any day.
And any episode of Phineas & Ferb is better than Alvin & the Chipmunks.
There’s plenty of quality work on tv if you’re not too snobby to watch it.
Everything went south after her ex was attacked by a Komodo Dragon.
Those who can’t — teach. Those who can’t teach — teach phys ed. Those who can write — write movies. Those who can’t — write television.
Lies. Television allows for the development of both rich, three dimensional characters and complex, compelling stories. Try watching something of quality and cram it.
you’re an idiot. Writers are Writers, whether it’s TV or Film. There is are also a lot of great TV writers who write Film scripts and vice versa. Obviously you are not in the “Business” or you’d know that.
To “Anonymous” –
you’re an idiot. Writers are Writers, whether it’s TV or Film. There is are also a lot of great TV writers who write Film scripts and vice versa. Obviously you are not in the “Business” or you’d know that.
Sharon Stone is a movie star and Meryl Streep is an highly skilled Actress. There is a clear distinction. It’s true Sharon could have had a career like Meryl but you can say the same for Jessica Lange, Sally Field, Jill Clayburgh, Natassia Kinski, Julia Ormond, Diane Keaton, Goldie Hawn or any of her contemporaries. Sharon Stone found a different role as an AIDS Charity hostess and never looked back. When she finally did, the movie industry ditched her and replaced with younger starlets. Nikki’s cautionary tale is right on the mark. Let this serve as a warning to all ingenues and ‘old’ veterans like Claire Danes, Winona Ryder, Natalie Portman, Kristen Dunst and Scarlett Johanson. By the way, I thought Ms. Stone was great in “The Muse.” Hooray to Meryl for breaking down the ceiling for “women of a certain age.” She is Box Office and Oscar bait rolled into one.
It’s Lindsay Lohan looking into a mirror.
Beautiful, talented, lucky, bright, charismatic, rich, famous, leggy, insatiable, self-centered, oblivious, difficult, delusional, narcissistic, foolish…
(My observations matter, damn it).
And her putting her career aside to become an advocate for AMFAR so she could use her celebrity and try and make a difference for people suffering with AIDS is bad…how, or why? Perhaps she got to a point where she looked around at Hollywood and said…This is all bullshit!
Why do we have to pit one actress against the other? Could Meryl have played Cathrine Tremell in Basic Instinct? I don’t think so That dosent make her a bad actress. That makes her a bad choice for that part. Stone was (I thought) absolutely fabulous in Basic Instinct, a film I worked on. Was she my favorite person to work with? No. But there are a lot more difficult people out there to work with than her, and they are mostly men. If acting is an art, it shouldn’t matter what medium it is practiced in. Let one “movie star” do a week of 40 pages a day on a soap. Movies may be an actors first choice, but TV should hardly be described as the end of ones career. I see a lot of those same “movie stars” at the Emmys and they look pretty happy to be there to me.
I have to say I find Nikki to be a great and astute observer of the business side of movies; when it comes to the creative side (evaluating movies and actors, etc) I find her pretty clueless.
I thought Stone was good in Basic Instinct, but I can’t say she ever gave a single performance that really moved me. To compare her to Streep just shows that Nikki needs to stay focused on the boardroom and stay out of the critic business. She sucks at it.
I don’t agree with your premise: L&O isn’t the first TV she’s done. She did guests and/or multi-ep arcs on The Practice, Will & Grace, Huff, even Roseanne.
And the downtrend in her box office viability goes back a lot farther than your trajectory. Since Basic Instinct, the highest grossing movie she’s been in was Antz.
TV shed its lower-tier status a long time ago, I’m not sure why you’re trying to re-perpetrate it. In the end, everybody’s gotta eat in this business.
What’s the deal? Did Sharon steal a parking space from you yesterday or something?
Law and Order? Ouch. Not just a TV show? A procedural. A show whose job is to hire actors by the boat load. That’s gotta hurt Shar…got to hoit.
Glenn Close is magnificent in the excellent cable fare DAMAGES – TV need not be a demotion, but LAW AND ORDER is passe, yes.
As for Sharon Stone, I thought her best, certainly warmest performance was in the underrated BOBBY. She deserves better.
If Sharon Stone is as bitchy as people make her out to be. Man I can’t wait to see how well she does on the fast-paced production of a television series. Film and television are two different animals. Hope she can handle it and not whine about it like William Hurt did for Damages.
Isn’t it her age? Many actresses Sharon’s age don’t get their phone calls returned. Though she can be a bit difficult, if a director feels she’s right for a role, she would probably still get it. It often comes down to money. Will she work cheap, or consider a low salary insulting?
Sharon does tend to go for the money over rolls she would be good at. She’s good at playing a minx, a devoted girlfriend, and comedy. But she rarely performs these rolls. IMHO.
I wish Sharon Stone well in whatever she does.
Sharon Stone could have had Sharon Stone’s career if she had tried a little harder and been much nicer
Stacy (or others)… RE: Lange’s got issues, which keep her from being insurable and cast-able.
What issues? Please back up such claims.
NO WAY SHARON STONE WOULD HAVE BEEN MERYL STREEP, BUT SHE MIGHT HAVE BEEN TAYLOR LAUTNER!
Yes, Sharon Stone having Meryl’s career is ridiculous, but there’s no need to slur TV. The writing on the best television shows (30 Rock, Mad Men, Modern Family– many others) is in a different league from what the mainstream film industry is doing or even wants to do. And the disparity grows wider every year.
Come on people!
When a woman gets old, she gets thrown on the trash heap. Most of these actresses become famous at 30 then lie and say they’re 20 then they hit the wall and get fat, they stop eating then look scary.
Life is hard on women. Case closed.
ask 10 people (not in Los Angeles) under 21 to name two movies sharon stone was in. A “movie star” should have an 80% don’t you think? try it.
Sharon is a sad, pathetic has been. She had it all and flushed it. BTW, Dick Wolf is a turd.