December 26, 1993
source: www.thequickandthedead.net
The Arizona Daily Star
Excerpt ~
Actress Sharon Stone helps serve meals to 1,000 at Convention Center
For most of the diners at yesterday's Salvation Army Christmas dinner, the only "basic instinct" that mattered was getting something to eat.
But that didn't mean they weren't wowed by actress Sharon Stone, who stepped out of her sultry "Basic Instinct" movie role, donned an apron and helped serve about 1,000 people a free meal.
"She touched my hand. Can you believe it?" asked Roland Maxwell, 31, a construction worker who has been out of work for three of the last five months. "She's a really nice woman. That made my day."
Stone is best known for her sexy film scenes. But yesterday she slipped into the dining room at the Tucson Convention Center without fanfare, wearing a plaid shirt and jeans beneath her white Salvation Army apron.
Stone declined requests for interviews. But a spokesman for Tri-Star Pictures said she is spending about three months in Tucson filming a new movie and wanted to contribute to the community by volunteering. Stone, who once worked as a waitress, juggled pitchers of coffee and punch as she moved between tables and chatted with guests.
Editor's note: Russell also participated at this event and I heard him tell his version of this story at the TOFOG shows in Austin, August 2000. It was during the introduction to the song High Horse Honey. Russell's version is preserved for us here:
Source: www.maximumcrowe.net
Excerpt from Molly Meldrum interview, August 24, 2000 ~
RC: I had a lot of fun with her, you know. Things like she knew I was going to be alone for Christmas Day, so she rings up and says (imitating Sharon Stone) "You know Russell, I'm doing a thing for the Salvation Army on Christmas Day. I'm gonna like give out coffee and orange juice and like serve turkey. Wanna come and help me?" I'm like, what a cool thing to do. That's magnificent. So I go down, I meet up with her, I jump in the car, we go down, I go to the Salvation Army, I put my apron on. It's about 8 o'clock in the morning and everything and I start and I get into it. You know my Mum and Dad are caterers, mate, and pub managers, so I know how to bus some tables, mate. I'm out there, I'm pumping away, I'm doing my thing you know, I'm handing out the turkey. I give one a bloke a coffee, this old dero from the street. I give this bloke a coffee and he goes . . . what'd he ask for? He asked for . . . there's a product over here in America which is kind of like -- it's got French vanilla milk, and I'm like, where'd you get your tastes from? I'm running around, like I'm probably, there's probably 250 people there and I feel like I've served 120 of them myself. I'm like just full on into it. And at one point in the day, I look over and Sharon's got her apron on, doesn't have any food marks on it, she is standing between two people getting her photograph taken for the local newspaper and the only time she picked the orange juice and coffee up was for that photograph. (laughs)