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Posted: 12.08.14 15:40. Post subject: Actress Stone retur..
Actress Stone returning home to speak at Meadville Day event
By Keith Gushard Meadville Tribune
MEADVILLE — Crawford County’s own Sharon Stone will be the featured speaker at the 46th annual Greater Meadville Area Day — Winslow Award Dinner on Thursday.
Stone is an actor, producer, director and writer who may be best known for roles in movies such as “Basic Instinct” and “Casino,” but off-screen she’s an activist for many humanitarian causes such as AIDS research.
Sponsored by the Economic Progress Alliance of Crawford County, Greater Meadville Area Day is held at The Country Club by invitation only. Bonnie Kuhn is chair of the event and William S. DeArment is master of ceremonies.
Dick Burkhardt, a member of the Greater Meadville Area Day Committee, was able to get Stone as featured speaker as she has been a long-time friend of the Burkhardt family.
Greater Meadville Area Day was initiated in 1969 by the Meadville Area Industrial Commission to commemorate the 85th birthday of Dr. Harry C. Winslow, a Meadville-area business leader and surgeon.
With Winslow’s civic-minded activities as a model over the years, the annual Winslow Award is presented during the dinner program to an individual, business or organization that has made a significant contribution to the economic growth of the greater Meadville area.
Information was not available on what Stone may speak about at Thursday’s event.
Stone, a Saegertown native and the Miss Crawford County in 1976, got her start on the road to stardom after moving to New York City and becoming a model. She was immediately signed by modeling agent Eileen Ford. Stone was soon modeling throughout the world, appearing in print and television ads for Clairol, Revlon and Diet Coke.
During the 1980s, Stone had numerous guest roles on television. She also had a supporting role as Robert Mitchum’s daughter-in-law in the miniseries “War and Remembrance.”
Her first major film role was in “Irreconcilable Differences,” in 1984.
After 10 years of working and studying acting, as well as performing in a string of films, she made the most of her role as Arnold Schwarzenegger’s wife in “Total Recall.”
The movie that forever changed Sharon Stone was “Basic Instinct,” in which she portrayed a bisexual author/sexual adventurer. “Basic Instinct” was the top-grossing film of 1992.
Stone capitalized on her success from the movie by carving out an attention-grabbing persona, confident and glamorous in an “Old Hollywood” sort of way, according to biographical information provided by Stone’s publicist.
Stone won a starring role opposite Robert DeNiro and Joe Pesci in Martin Scorsese’s 1995 film “Casino,” where she garnered an Academy Award nomination and Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture Drama for her portrayal of Ginger.
She also co-starred with Sylvester Stallone in “The Specialist.”
Stone’s other career highlights include receiving her first Emmy Award for Best Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for her three-episode role on “The Practice” where she played Sheila Caryle, a successful attorney who claims God speaks to her, and who has been subsequently fired from her law firm for being mentally incompetent.
This year, Stone has a role in the film “Fading Gigolo.”
In 2013, Stone produced “Femme,” a documentary about women around the world who are actively transforming and healing global society on a daily basis. The film interviews more than 100 influential women, including Jean Houston, Marianne Williamson, Nobel Peace Prize laureates Shirin Ebadi and Mairead Maguire, and Gloria Steinem.
Off screen, Stone has done many hours of work for charity and Stone’s own charitable foundations. Stone and her sister, Kelly, founded Planet Hope, a foundation that sponsors diverse activities for homeless children of all ages and cultures.
At the United Nations on World AIDS Day 1995, Stone accepted an invitation to serve for three years as chairwoman of amfAR’s Campaign for AIDS Research. In 1998, as her term was coming to a close, Stone renewed her support of amfAR’s vital innovative research programs by vowing to continue as campaign chairman until a safe and effective AIDS vaccine is developed.
Since accepting he position with amfAR, she has traveled nationally and internationally on behalf of the Foundation and is now its global chair for campaign fundraising. At her public appearances, Stone works to heighten awareness of HIV/AIDS as a threat to social and economic stability and to underscore the need for AIDS research.
Stone has helped raise hundreds of millions of dollars for AIDS research in her 21 years as chair amfAR events all over the world. During a 2014 amfAR event at the Cannes Film Festival she was able to raise more that $31 million for AID/HIV research.
In 1999, the AIDS Awareness Committee of Academy of Television Arts & Sciences presented her with a Ribbon of Hope award for AIDS awareness and education. She also received the Humanitarian Award in 2000 from the Human Rights Campaign.
In 2002, Stone received the Honoree and Recipient of Global Conference Institutes Healthcare & Medicine Humanitarian Award. The award recognizes an individual in the world who has demonstrated a profound commitment and devotion to health care and humanitarianism, has enhanced the quality of lives through their work and influences the course of history through ongoing contributions of health care and medicine. In 2013 she was honored by the Peace Laureates at the Nobel Summit in Warsaw Poland, with the “Peace Summit Award” for her continuous work with HIV/AIDS. She was present the award by the Dalai Lama.
In 2004, Project Angel Food honored Stone with an Angel Award for her commitment to the Project Angel Food mission for her ongoing contributions to the fight against AIDS. Project Angel Food prepares and delivers free, life-sustaining meals daily to more than 1,600 people living with HIV/AIDS, all types of cancer, Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, diabetes and other serious illness throughout Los Angeles. Also in 2004, she received a Spirit Award from the National Centre for Lesbian Rights for her support of gay and lesbian civil rights.
In 2005, Stone was honored with the Harvard Humanitarian Award to celebrate her 10 years as an advocate for AIDS research. In 2005, Stone used her star power at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland to raise more than $1 million in five minutes to fight the Malaria epidemic in Tanzania. Stone also was awarded Redbook’s Mothers and Shakers Award for outstanding women and their tireless efforts to impact the world.
Stone has done work to aid disaster victims such as the victims of Hurricane Katrina. She teamed up with songwriters Denise Rich, Mark Feist and Damon Sharpe, co-writing and producing the song “Come Together Now.” Stone lined up a music stars who performed on the track including Joss Stone, Wyclef Jean, Celine Dion, Patti LaBelle and the Backstreet Boys.
Stone said she believes her role is, in order, that of mother, then activist, and lastly, actress. Stone said she wants to use her celebrity status as a productive tool to make charitable contributions to various humanitarian causes around the world.
Posted: 13.08.14 12:39. Post subject: MEADVILLE -- Actress..
MEADVILLE -- Actress Sharon Stone will be featured speaker for the 46th annual Greater Meadville Area Day/Winslow Award Dinner at the Country Club of Meadville Thursday night.
The Academy Award-nominated actor and humanitarian grew up in Saegertown and is a former Miss Crawford County.
Greater Meadville Area Day is sponsored by the Economic Progress Alliance of Crawford County.
The Winslow Award will be presented during the evening to honor contributions to the economic growth of the Meadville region.
Attendance at the dinner is by invitation only.
Stone is best known for her Academy Award-nominated and Golden Globe-winning performance in "Casino," for "Basic Instinct" and other films and for her Emmy Award-winning guest performance in television's "The Practice."
She is also a humanitarian, supporting causes including breast cancer research and help for homeless children through Planet Hope, a foundation that she founded with her sister, Kelly Stone. She was honored with the prestigious Harvard Humanitarian Award in 2005, in honor of her 10 years as an advocate for AIDS research.
Posted: 26.08.14 15:51. Post subject: The Catalina Festiva..
The Catalina Festival's, 2013 Stanley Kramer "Social Artist" Award winner, Sharon Stone invites you to come to the festival. The festival dates this year are September 24-28, 2014
Posted: 23.09.14 15:29. Post subject: FEMME is Honored!!! ..
FEMME is Honored!!! Happy to announce two more honors for FEMME from The Silent River Film Festival !! Glory for our "River Spirit Award" and the "River Glory Award" for Sharon Stone.
Posted: 05.10.14 12:28. Post subject: Sharon Stone, Stacy ..
Sharon Stone, Stacy Keach & Jacob Young Tapped for Workshop of Ben Elton's Popcorn
Our Broadway instincts are on red alert with this news. Oscar nominee Sharon Stone (Casino), Stacy Keach (soon to be seen in Love Letters) and Jacob Young (All My Children) will lead a developmental reading of Ben Elton’s Popcorn. Directed by Mark Rozzano, the Telling Company’s workshop will take place in New York next week
Elton adapted Popcorn from his novel of the same name and the show won the 1998 Olivier Award for Best Comedy. Popcorn follows the trail of two kids, who in reaction to the ongoing violence in films, go on their own cross-country killing spree. In California, they take their favorite film director hostage and claim his violent movies are the reason they became serial killers. The satirical black comedy poses the question: does the extreme violence in today’s movies motivate real-life acts of brutality?
The reading will also feature former Broadway alums Jim Borstelmann, Bryn Dowling and Angie Schworer. broadway.com
Posted: 01.11.14 12:16. Post subject: Sharon Stone has giv..
Sharon Stone has given first-time director Sadyk Sher-Niyaz a big Oscar boost by agreeing to host an awards season screening of his new movie, Kyrgyzstan's submission for the Best Foreign Film Academy Award.
The actress will introduce Kurmanjan Datka Queen of the Mountains before a screening at the Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood on 4 November (14).
Thrilled filmmaker Sher-Niyaz tells Wenn, "It took several years of heartache and delays to achieve a film that really captures the importance and the magnitude of Kurmanjan for both myself and my country, so it is quite an honour to have the support of an actress with the calibre of Sharon Stone."
Stone insists she was happy to be asked to champion the film: "Women have a unique and natural ability to tap into remarkable strength and courage to become great leaders and that is why the story of Kurmanjan really resonated with me."
The film, about 19th century Kyrgyzstan leader Kurmanjan Datka, has already won a clutch of awards, including Best Film and Best Screenplay at the New York Eurasian Film Festival and the Audience Award at the China Silk Road Film Festival.
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