Will Stone do "Stompanato"?

The divine Ms. Sharon is back on track; Geri Halliwell: Proud to be a virgin! Plus: Helena Bonham Carter, all-latex home wrecker?

By Amy Reiter

Oct 26, 2001 | Those of you still fretting about Sharon Stone's health can relax. Her husband, Phil Bronstein, has stepped up to assure us all that his wife is completely back to her old self again after her scary bout with a brain bleed.

"It was a dissected vertebral artery in her neck," Bronstein explained to E! News Daily. "They went in, not surgically, and they fixed it ... There's no chance of a recurrence, and she's really doing well."

So well, in fact, that she's starting to explore new film projects. If Sharon has her way, she'll soon be starring as Lana Turner in "Stompanato," a film about the actress and her rocky relationship with mobster Johnny Stompanato.

According to Variety, nothing's a done deal yet, but Antonio Banderas' name is being bandied about to play Stompanato, and Canadian director Francois Girard ("The Red Violin," "Thirty-Two Short Films About Glenn Gould") may direct.

And aren't you proud of me for getting through that entire item without even once mentioning undies or komodo dragons?

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'N clothing at all times

"No nude scenes."

-- 'N Sync-er Joey Fatone on the limits on what he'll do to make a go of it as an actor, in the New York Post.

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Batman's revenge

David Schwimmer vants to suck your blood.

As a kid, the "Friends" actor liked to get creative on Fright Night. "I dressed as a different character every year at Halloween," Schwimmer told New York gossipist Baird Jones at the premiere party for the NBC miniseries "Uprising," which airs Nov. 4 and 5. "But my favorite was Dracula; I don't know why."

Could it have been the cape? That's what attracted Hank Azaria to his favorite Halloween alter ego: Batman.

"I started [wearing my Batman costume] when I was 4 and wore it every year right through 9," Azaria told Jones. "I always went solo because I never could convince anyone to be Robin."

Which may have netted him sympathy candy. "Even though I only had a cheap cape and Batman head-cap and mask I bought from Woolworth's for $5, I still cleaned up," Azaria recalls. "Out in Forest Hills, [N.Y.], where I grew up, even a really cheap costume could still rake in the candy as long as you jumped around a lot in it."

Azaria got a chance to do a little bonus Bat-jumping last year, too, he says, when he arrived at erstwhile celluloid Caped Crusader George Clooney's house for a Halloween party ... sans costume.

"George would not let me in unless I wore a costume," Azaria says, "so I stuck this Bacardi Rum sticker on my chest to make it like a costume. It turned out to be a Batman design so I ended up being Batman again."

Any volunteers to be his Robin?

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