From Hollywood to Lake Kinneret

From: Jerusalem Post | Date: May 31, 2006| Author: NATHAN BURSTEIN | Copyright information


Jerusalem Post

05-31-2006

Headline: From Hollywood to Lake Kinneret
Byline: NATHAN BURSTEIN
Edition; Daily
Section: Arts
Page: 24

Wednesday, May 31, 2006 -- It's been 14 years since Basic Instinct, and director Paul Verhoeven still loves talking about Sharon Stone. The obligatory questions about the film's most notorious scene finally arrived near the end of an interview with the influential Dutch filmmaker last week at Tel Aviv's Sheraton Moria...

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