>> We met her in Paris a few months ago at the launchu00a0of the FENDI store, where she and a host of other international celebrities had been roped in to grace the occasion. Accompanied by a solemn and besuited young boy whom she introduced to us as her son, and coiffed and dressed in demure designer threads, this Sharon Stone was quite different from the woman in the notorious Basic Instinct flashing scene, which had finally given people reason to use the pause buttons on their DVD remote controls!