Sarah Michelle Gellar Topless In Next Flick?

deepgirl187 wrote, angrily, and righteously so:

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...Sharon Stone has appeared topless in movies before, and yet she's a respected actress (not to mention highly intelligent)...

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ROTFLMAO!

Whew! Stop! I can't breathe! *wipes tears from eyes while hiccupping furiously*

What? You mean you were serious?!



Disbelievingly,

zoid

P.S.
Now, if you'd said Kate Winslet...

As far as AOTS, their style is more 'irreverent' than 'intolerant'. Meaning: Lighten up a little. They were just taking a (unsympathetic, yet ultimately playful) shot at an unemployed actress who's cruising full-steam-ahead toward official has-been status. The fact that she seems to realize that, based on her comments, does her credit...

I would just think that she might try something along the lines of 'working for scale on an indie film', before deciding she needed to pimp her boobs to revive her career...
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Sharon Stone is a member of MENSA, in case you didn't know.

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Originally posted by deepgirl187:
In response to the insensitive idiot who wrote that article:

Sharon Stone has appeared topless in movies before, and yet she's a respected actress (not to mention highly intelligent). So what's this about

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"Sarah Michelle Gellar is so desperate for attention, she's going to take her clothes off to stay relevant."

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Sexist idiots like that need to get a clue.

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I think the point he is making is she has to take off her cloths to be relevant in Hollywood...relevant= working actress...The difference is that Sharon Stone can "act" that is why she is "accomplished. She would have roles even if she didn't get NAKED...thank the fraking gods she has the desire to occasionally disrobe. Sarah? not so much...just my opinion...

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Tristan wrote:

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zoid, my estimation of you has just gone stellar. Your children will grow up to be healthy, mentally-balanced, contributing members of society. If only more parents...heck, more people in general...shared your views, this would be a much happier world. Just...wow. ANd thank you for being you.

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Dude. Don't start setting up the pedestal. I'm just another human wending my way through Life and learning the hard way, by making mistakes and drawing back a bloody stump as feedback. I'm nothing special, except to the extent that every human being is special...

...Or at least we have the potential to be special, if we'll listen to the Love in our own hearts, rather than always trying to strictly conform to some society's approved methodology of thought/behavior.

I'm just trying to share my viewpoint, man. If you find something you like, take it for yourself, try it on for fit, adapt it to your own Heart and Mind, and then pass it along to others. Same as I do...



Respectfully,

zoid

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"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" is a lot tougher -- and more enlightening -- than it initially appears. You wanna see a world brimming with love and mutual respect and acceptance and... well, all the good things you could possibly imagine? Follow that one Christian Rule and you'll have it.

Why? Because in order to treat the Other as we ourselves would be treated, we first have to understand the Other and what is important to them. It's a fundamentally unattainable goal (because we are, all of us, fundamentally separated from each other), but earnestly trying to attain it anyway is both self-actualizing and instructive. It'll teach you about others: their needs, wants (there's a difference), fears, hopes and motivations. And it'll teach you to critically compare your own motivations to theirs, showing you which of yours are less than noble; it'll evaporate most of your common fears and prejudices (same thing, imo); and it'll teach you just how much you have in common with all the other imperfect, self-absorbed, lonely, frightened, error-prone human beings on this planet.

Mostly though, The Golden Rule teaches this: If you want to be loved unconditionally -- even when you're not at your best -- by everyone around you, you must first likewise love everyone around you, even when they are not at their best. And when I say 'love everyone', I don't mean smiling blankly and hugging them; I mean loving them to the same depth of soul you would like to be loved...

See? I did it again. But, I'm just sharing what my unique experiences and reflections have taught me, not preaching the gospel...
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Zoid, don't worry, no hero worshipping going on, it's just nice to see someone of your mindset out and about.

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deepgirl187 responded:

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Sharon Stone is a member of MENSA, in case you didn't know.

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Actually, I didn't know that. So, thanks for the info.

Being a male with a measly 154 IQ, I wouldn't know MENSA from 'onset of menses', except to say -- quoting the inimitable Groucho Marx -- "I would never belong to any club that would admit me as a member."

I will also say that very few of the people I most admire would qualify for MENSA. There's more to character than intelligence, wouldn't you agree?

Hey, no aggro on my part. The assertion that Ms. Stone is a well-respected actress, though, is definitely debatable. Her recent "Basic Instinct 2" was met with almost universal ridicule.

Still, the infamous 'smoking beaver' scene from "Basic Instinct (1)" does earn her some dubious distinction in movie history, I suppose.

...and like I said, if you'd have asserted, "Kate Winslet had an extensive topless scene in 'Titanic' and yet she is still a highly respected actress," I'd have readily agreed with you. Same goes for Gwyneth Paltrow's (Oscar-winning, frequently topless) performance in "Shakespeare in Love"...

But I still would have disagreed in principle that the article's author was being "sexist" or deserved your "". I think you overreacted; but, maybe not. Maybe you understood that the author was just taking the mick, and still found it that viscerally offensive...



Respectfully,

zoid
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An intriguing thread. Given it's authour, I'm not surprised.

I humbly submit a couple of thoughts.

One, is that I've seen a marked decline in gfn* in Hollywood's film releases the past three or four years. I've made no statistical survey, so all I can say is that though I may well be wrong with such an assessment, I do work in the cinema post-production industry and have seen a lot of films, and am hard pressed (oh dear!) to recall the last "A", or even A- list actress that doffed her clothing to the final cut. Feel free to fill in the gaps, but b4 Stone, was it Ryan? Ah, but of course we could argue whether or not SMG belongs on any list approaching such a lofty grade, at which point I give up.

Secondly, there's what I would refer to as a sort of Puritanical momentum. For example, I posit that in my home province of Ontario, Canada, it has for 6 or 7 years been legal for women to doff their tops in public in exactly the same measure as men have been allowed to do since... many decades ago. Yes, womenfolk here can walk down the sidewalk, bare-chested, just like any guy. Women can shop in any mall, clad only in sunglasses above their shorts... and wouldn't I be right there if'n they were into that relaxed level of shopping, eh? (Think: air conditioning). And, I ask rhetorically, since the law has allowed it, guess how many Ontarian women have I seen topless in public, including beaches? (I'm into kayaking, so I'm often at beaches).

Here's a hint: place your bets on single digits. Aside from that first week when local strippers paraded about advertising their "wares".

Nudity's only going to be marketable so long as the commonwealth remains "puritanical". Or, until we all get nekkid, eh?


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