Strange confluence in my RSS reader today. First, the above video pops up on Google’s Top 100 most watched clips feed. It compares and contrasts unadulterated clips from Basic Instinct with the versions altered for TV. Then, this story from the Hollywood Reporter: Sharon Stone, apparently trying to defend her “good friend” the Dalai Lama, told a reporter at Cannes that she thought the massive earthquake that has decimated China and killed 65,000 people is karmic retribution for China’s policies against Tibet. The relevant quote:

“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans, because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else,” Stone said in a brief red carpet interview with Cable Entertainment News of Hong Kong. “And then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and then I thought, is that karma? When you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”

Now the head of one of China’s biggest theater chains says he’s not going to book Stone’s films. Which we’re sure would be a devastating loss for the people of China––first the earthquake, now this!––except we can’t remember the last film Sharon Stone appeared in. Maybe that’s just karmic retribution of a different sort.