Zusammenfassung
Today's Information Times ran a full page special about Hollywood
actress Sharon Stone's comments about the Sichuan earthquake last
week at the Cannes film festival. Stone suggested that the quake
may have been a result of "karma" from China's treatment of Tibetans.
The headline on the newspaper's front page reads "Sharon Stone is
an enemy of the whole nation". The inside full page special uses
another headline: The Chinese people spontaneously start an anti-Sharon
movement". Below the headline, there is a roundup of online criticism
against the Hollywood star, laid out in two blocks with the top group
captioned: "Chinese netizen: She is a pseudo-philanthropist"; the
bottom one is captioned Ämerican netizen: She should apologize."
Caption of the top image: "Sharon Stone is having a headache."In the
newspaper, her compliment to China as a "great country" during last
year's Shanghai Movie Festival was dug out and compared with her
"karma" comment. Other anecdotes about her—including a story about
her calling a German audience "nasty little Germans"—proved, according
to the newspaper, that she has always been a "big mouth". An article
based on an interview with her during her stay in Shanghai that may
make an interesting read can be found on Shanghai Daily in English.
On the top right corner of the full page anti-Stone special is a translated
excerpt from a statement by Dior, a French cosmetic brand that Sharon
Stone endorses. The statement says that Dior does not agree with
Sharon Stone's remarks. However the original version of the statement
has apparently not yet surfaced on the Internet.
Today's The Beijing News also reported the Sharon Stone story but
in a much more moderate fashion. With most papers still putting their
attention on the Sichuan quake zone, Sharon Stone's controversial
remarks did not make the front page in most cases.
However, there have been many calls to boycott Sharon Stone and ban
her movies from China by both netizens. Ng See-yuen (吴思远), founder
of the UME Cineplex chain that operates theaters in several Chinese
cities, has been widely quoted in the Chinese media condemning Stone's
remarks and on the Hollywood Reporter's website saying "his company
would not show the Hollywood star's films".
There is a video of Stone making her remarks and a transcript of the
bad karma comment below.
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