Posted on 12/12/2006 5:09:17 AM PST by paudio
Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone has angered the people of Norway after breaking with royal protocol and upstaging the country's King and Queen at a banquet. Stone may have wanted to make a grand entrance at Sunday's dinner honoring the Nobel Peace Prize winners in Oslo, but ended up making a royal faux pas by arriving late. Royal protocol in Europe dictates that when a King and Queen attend an event, everyone is required to be in their seats when the royal couple make their entrance, making them the last to arrive. Stone offended the Norwegian royal couple by waltzing into the room 10 minutes after the couple, which has been interpreted by Norwegians as the actress declaring herself more important than the King. This year's event was especially significant because it marked the first time that Norway's King Harald V and Queen Sonja were invited to the annual Nobel Banquet at Oslo's Grand Hotel. Stone's late arrival offended several guests, with former palace official Carl-Erik Grimstad calling it a "violation" of international custom. He tells Norwegian newspaper Aftenposten, "When the king is invited to such an event, guests need to have a very good reason for arriving after he does. I'm sure that if she didn't have a good reason, she'll be sorry about it."
He said they were having dinner, and she asked him if he had allowed the dead spirits of others to enter his body yet so he could fully "feel them" and act the part better.
This outburst left even this left-wing gay actor shocked.
Sharon Stone. Someone who asked to be possessed.
Regards, Ivan
Good question as to why she was there. Maybe if the events organizers want to increase the Hollywood media appeal of their boring events by inviting famous actresses they should not gripe when they ACT like famous actresses.
What's so special about royalty anyway in Norway -- did they earn theri titles some way?
"Sunday's dinner honoring the Nobel Peace Prize winners"
Begs the questions...
Who invited her? and why?
Not the same thing.
They command little respect.
Like Paris Hilton has .
* rolls eyes *
I've never read anything that dreadful and precipitous in a Jane Austen novel.....
When in Rome..........
but we do , all the hollyweird people are ROYALTY don't you know /sarcasm
The orginal "Firecrotch". It's gotta be killing her that her time in the celluloid spotllight has passed.
Not in Basic Instinct.
Jane Austin=Jane Austen
The Norwegians need to get their diversity in order. The nerve of them, expecting people from other cultures to observe their 'customs'! Bunch of intolerant racists.
>>This is what Happens when Royalty is exposed to White Trash.
So true. The real faux pas was committed by the person responsible for inviting the trash.
But,like, hey, who cares? She got noticed, didn't she? She got written up in the papers, didn't she? She got PR didn't see? And in Hollywood, that's the name of the game. Sure, it might have been bad PR, but, hey, bad PR is better than no PR, dig?
Speaking of Ms. Hilton and friends, did you see the Salon article posted here yesterday? If not, here's a small taste:
The other almost-supernatural aspect of Hilton's reign of harebrained horror is the way that she herself remains intact while those around her wither. Hilton is like some kind of Dorian Gray cockroach. While her buddies waste away and collapse and see their careers flushed down the celebrity toilet after having been in her presence, she grows stronger: appearing on more magazine covers, getting bigger record contracts, attracting more attention, sleeping with more of her fading friends' boyfriends. Even her Plasticine exterior seems unravaged by her excessive behaviors.
She is, frustratingly, indestructible. Hilton has been caught on tape referring to two black friends as "dumb niggers." She has been arrested for drunk driving. She has peed herself in a taxicab in Hawaii. She has vomited onstage while singing her own songs. She has laughed like a retarded hyena as boyfriends like Davis and Niarchos have embarrassed themselves and ruined their own reputations. And yet, she has never had to go on Letterman to apologize; she has never had to meet with leaders of a community to make amends; she never even had to clean the taxi that she befouled. As a completely non-achieving celebrity, there are no higher moral, spiritual or intellectual expectations burdening the heiress. So she's a moronic, racist, boyfriend-stealing, talentless twit? Surprise. We never thought her anything better.
Paris Hilton may be the only woman on the planet capable of making Sharon Stone seem decent and proper (relatively speaking). Amazing, isn't it?
Most actors have very little education; many may not even have completed high screwl. Goodness knows they're not readers or deep thinkers, and it's clear that the ambient intelligence level among actors is not very high. But they are surrounded by handlers, schedulers, personal assistants, and other leeches who are supposed to be competent. It's up to these people to figure out what the protocol is in different situations once the idiot star leaves the studio.
Of course, there's only so much a personal assistant can do if the star is drunk, stoned, defiantly arrogant, or all three.
Stone probably just remembered that in every movie, the king and queen are already there, sitting on a dais, and the star comes in, walks up a long aisle of courtiers, and curtseys before the throne.
Google would be a good place to start.
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