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Sharon Stone's appearance last week at the International Women's Media Foundation banquet in Beverly Hills. Stone presented the group's Courage in Journalism award to the mother of Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll. Eyes were rolling as the actress went on an on and got weepy talking about how Carroll's imprisonment had affected her, Sharon Stone. "She tried to turn Jill Carroll's kidnapping into her own private sorrow," a correspondent emails. "It was AWFUL and ENDLESS." Carroll, no dummy, did not make the trip herself.

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