Sharon Stone is telling her side of the story
5 Apr, 2021 02:00 AM
9 minutes to read I don t think that my life is exceptional, except that I ended up being a movie star, Sharon Stone said. Photo / Getty Images I don t think that my life is exceptional, except that I ended up being a movie star, Sharon Stone said. Photo / Getty Images
New York Times
By: Dave Itzkoff
The actress and star of films like Basic Instinct and Casino writes about her life, upbringing and brushes with death in a new memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice. During an extended hospitalisation in 2001,
Sharon Stone reveals untold details about her past in her new memoir
03 Apr 2021 Sharon Stone has released a new memoir, The Beauty of Living Twice. TNS
During an extended hospitalisation in 2001, when Sharon Stone was being treated for a stroke and a subarachnoid haemorrhage that had bled into her brain, head and spine, she writes that she was visited by her grandmother Lela, who had been dead for 30 years.
“This is where it gets weird,” Stone writes in a new memoir, “The Beauty of Living Twice,” which Atlantic Books published in the US last month (and Allen & Unwin published in the UK yesterday). Lela came to convey a warning: “Whatever you do, don’t move your neck.” It is one of several scenes from her life that Stone, the 63-year-old star of films like “Basic Instinct,” “Casino” and “The Quick and the Dead,” relates with candour and sardonic humour. Despite her long career in Hollywood playing femme fatales and women of mystery e
Sharon Stone has had just as much drama in real life than in her numerous film roles.
In her new memoir âThe Beauty of Living Twice,â the Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award winner reveals more untold details about her past.
As a teenager, she crossed state lines to have an abortion.
âI was too scared and shocked to know what to do,â Stone writes in the new book, further detailing how at age 18 she and her then-boyfriend drove from rural Pennsylvania to Ohio to undergo the procedure.
âI was bleeding all over the place and far worse than I should have been, but this was a secret and I had no one to tell so I stayed in my room and bled for days,â she explained. âI was weak and scared.â
Mar 16, 2021 2:15 PM EDT
Charles Yu, author of our February pick for the NewsHour-New York Times book club, recently answered questions submitted by readers on Facebook about his satirical novel, “Interior Chinatown”.
Written as a teleplay, the book offers a darkly humorous commentary on racism and representation in the entertainment industry. You’ll find a selection of his answers below and can watch senior correspondent Jeffrey Brown’s interview with him here. These responses have been edited and condensed for clarity.
You’re definitely walking a line between the stereotype of the perpetual foreigner and identity. How much, or what kind of, advice did you accept from editors in deciding what to include or exclude from your story?