Word: dragone
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SHARON STONE is not all that annoyed at the jokes about KOMO, the Komodo dragon that attacked her husband's foot June 9 during a trip to the Los Angeles Zoo (a visit she'd arranged with the help of her nanny's husband, a lion tamer). But she is a bit miffed that the zoo underestimated the lizard, and that it later made hay of her husband PHIL BRONSTEIN's misfortune. She aired her complaints in a postmortem on the incident with TIME's Jess Cagle. "The zookeeper said, 'Would you like to go in the cage...
...hospital, Stone says she told him, "Look, this is all we want from you: we don't want you to do any sensationalized press, and we want you to move the animal into quarantine. "So the first thing the zoo did was a fund raiser with the dragon on display, and they made jokes. What's shocking to me is that they're continuing these visits with animals that are known to be carnivorous...
...DRAGON'S BASIC INSTINCT...
...Travis Coates asked Old Yeller to join him for a walk, SHARON STONE invited her husband, San Francisco Chronicle executive editor PHIL BRONSTEIN, to take a behind-the-scenes tour of the L.A. Zoo. As part of the tour, Bronstein was induced to enter the cage of a KOMODO DRAGON and remove his white sneakers, which a keeper thought the giant lizard might mistake for white rats. The dragon promptly chomped down on Bronstein's big white toe, sending him to the hospital for major surgery. More surprising than the gullibility of a hardened newsman is the lack of sympathy...
...been trapped by her success?and by her adviser. Manfred Wong, the Hong Kong Svengali who discovered her and remains her manager, has seemingly never seen a script too poor or a commercial too cheesy to reject. Except, that is, for a little film called Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon?something Shu Qi is still trying to live down...