Sharon Stone at the Cannes Film Festival last week said:

“I’m not happy about the way the Chinese are treating the Tibetans because I don’t think anyone should be unkind to anyone else. I’ve been concerned about how we should deal with the Olympics, because they are not being nice to the Dalai Lama, who is a good friend of mine. And then all this earthquake and all this stuff happened, and I thought, is that karma – when you’re not nice that the bad things happen to you?”

Later, the actress insinuated that the deadly earthquake that killed as many as 80,000 people in China was bad karma because of China’s policies in Tibet.

Several Chinese cinemas have now pledged to not screen her movies and the Internet (behind the Great Chinese Firewall) has exploded with angry comments against Stone.

China says more than 67,000 people have been confirmed dead in the May 12 earthquake that devastated a mountainous corner of southwestern Sichuan province and more than 20,000 are still missing.

Some websites have even posted slideshows of Stone, usually topless and sometimes in affectionate poses with a male friend, accompanied by captions , one read: “Shut up, shameless woman”.

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