Sharon Stone has brightened our lives in Total Recall (1990), Basic Instinct (1992), The Quick and the Dead (1995), Casino (1995) and 70-odd other credits. She is as intelligent, sporting a Mensa IQ, as she is beautiful. For me, her stint as an ADA on Law and Order SVU (2010) was the only reason to tune into that absurd show. According to an article today at Yahoo, she suffered a scary medical problem in 2001. She was in and out of a coma in a San Francisco hospital until doctors discovered she had suffered a brain hemorrhage. She underwent a seven-hour procedure to stop the bleeding and repair the torn artery. Afterward, she continued to suffer. She says: "I came out of the hospital with short and long term memory loss. My lower left leg was numb. I couldn't hear out of my right ear. The side of my face was falling down. I thought, 'I'll never be pretty again. Who's going to want to be around me?'" She has made a remarkable comeback, raising three adopted kids as a single mom, and working as a spokesperson for several charities. She will be seen as Linda Lovelace's mother in a new bio-pic about the star of the notorious Deep Throat, a role that the unreliable Lindsay Lohan lost to Amanda Seyfried.
Whenever I saw pictures of Heidi Klum and Seal, I was tickled by how happy they looked, rare in couples in or out of Hollywood. I am saddened at the news, also from Yahoo, that they are headed for divorce after seven years of marriage, although "They love each other very much..." according to sources. They have four children, one of which Klum had in a previous relationship, and which Seal adopted. I wonder what happened. I'm sure they suffer much more temptation than average folks. I hope they reconcile. I know it's a modern world, but I still thrill to glimpses of the old-fashioned one like the elderly Russian couple who have donated many books to me holding hands.
The floating bookshop was sidelined by the first snow accumulation of the winter. The prediction was three to six inches. It seems like we came in on the low end, and the forecast is for above average temperatures for the next week, so it will all melt before it has a chance to go black. I will bring a shovel with me tomorrow just in case I have to clear a space on Bay Parkway.
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