Dior Drops Actress for China Remark

The New York Times ^ | May 30, 2008 | David Jolly

[kevin_in_so_cal]

Christian Dior, the French fashion brand, has become the latest global company to learn a hard lesson about the danger of offending Chinese sensitivities.

Facing the possibility of a boycott of its products, the luxury company said Thursday that it had dropped the American actress Sharon Stone from its advertising in China after she suggested last week that the recent earthquakes in Sichuan Province were karmic retribution for Beijing’s treatment of Tibet.

[kevin_in_so_cal]

The Olympics are only months away. Get the popcorn started!

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Actions have consequences.
Loose lips sink ships.

[joebuck]

I think it’s also because she had more wrinkles than a Hippo. Time is not being kind to Sharon.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Good for Dior. Ms. Stone is seriously deranged if she thinks all those innocent little children killed and maimed when their schools collapsed were getting “karmic retribution” for anything. Very few of the people killed and injured in the earthquakes had anything to do with the repression of the Tibetan. I haven’t heard of a single senior government official sustaining so much as a scratch.

[blackdog]

Is her husband dropping out of the “Komodo Dragon foot race” olympic event?

[AU72]

Sharon Stone sure got a lot of mileage out of uncrossing her legs while smoking a cigarette.

[netmilsmom]

Amen!

[Liberty Valance]

LOL!!! Didn’t they get divorced?

[353FMG]

Sharon was stoned when she made that heartless statement.

[South40]

Skank pulls down $14 million per movie. I doubt she cares.

[LYSandra]

These loud mouth actors just never get it! Good for Dior! Hit em where it hurts - in the pocket book. It’s not like this loud mouth is doing anything anymore other than being obnoxious!

[buck jarret]

They should have dropped her anyway because she is OLD.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

Surprised all the ones siding with COMMUNIST CHINA on this one....

No fan of Stone, but I rather support an ignorant American over Commie China anyday.

But, this is the world where faux-conservatives and un-American GOPers would rather ship a job to COMMUNIST CHINA than hire an American.

[falcon1966]

Stick to flashing your beaver, you uneducated bimbo.

[mass55th]

"LOL!!! Didn’t they get divorced?"

Yeah, Phil Bronstein finally got smart and dumped her back in 2004.

[Sudetenland]

I believe she prefers "carpet" these days.

She is listed as the 2nd highest IQ in Hollywood at 154 (James Woods' is supposed to be 174). Just goes to show that I.Q. is merely an indicator of capacity (if anything at all) not function.

She's supposed to be a member of MENSA. I was going to join, back when I was young and arrogant, but a friend of mine who was a member told me that it was full of arrogant a-holes who were very boring. Looks like he was correct, judging by Stone.

What amuses me is how little play this got with the MSM. She supports Obama. If some Christian notable, like Pat Robertson, had said this was "God's retribution" it would have been plastered all over the newspaper and the television screen, joked about extensively by Leno and the rest of the late night losers, and great care would have been taken to link him to the Republican party.

[colorado tanker]

I think it’s also because she had more wrinkles than a Hippo. Time is not being kind to Sharon.

Well, it wasn't her face most guys were looking at.

[stop_fascism]

If she had said that the recent tornado’s were America’s karma for global warming or the Iraq war, the world would have cheered, and Dior would have given her a raise.

[joebuck]

"Well, it wasn't her face most guys were looking at."

Why do you assume I was referring to her face?

[TigersEye]

In April, the French retailer Carrefour was the focus of protests after disturbances at the Olympic torch relay in Paris, when pro-Tibetan demonstrators lunged at a Chinese torch-bearer in a wheelchair. That image, quickly available on video-sharing Web sites, set off calls for a boycott of the company. Tempers calmed, but only after the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, dispatched an aide to soothe relations.

Let's correct the propaganda that the NYTs is promoting here.

Agents Provocateur? ["Tibetan supporter" who attacked torch bearer may be Chinese agent]

Attack on an American volunteer by anti-Carrefour mob in Zhuzhou, Hunan
"The cab driver was shouting at him to get out. Then they started hitting the car.
The crowd was shouting "kill him! kill the Frenchman."" (he was actually an American but small difference to a government hired mob)