Actress Sharon Stone arrives for the Los Angeles premiere of ñThe Curious Case of Benjamin Buttonî, December 8, 2008, in Westwood, California. The film is adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards.GABRIEL BOUYS
Regular festivalgoers are scratching their heads at the movie clips chosen to accompany the ads for the Cadillac People's Choice Awards, whose tagline is, "Some things you see once and remember forever":
There's a shot of Janet Leigh in Psycho, a shot of the silver Terminator with glowing red eyes, and a shot of Sharon Stone just before she uncrosses her legs sans underwear in Basic Instinct.
What's puzzling is, though those are indelible movie images, they're also all about things that will kill you -- Leigh is being stabbed, the Terminator's goal is to wipe out mankind, and Stone dispatches lovers with an ice pick. (Even more disturbing is the suggestion that Stone's lady bits are lethal all by themselves, but we won't go there.)
Isn't Cadillac concerned that we might now be afraid to get into their cars?