Sharon Stone is ready to take on her first biopic: Portraying late pal Phyllis Diller. Stone told Insider while promoting her ...

"I told her I wanted to play her, and she sat down and taught me her laugh," Sharon Stone said of the comedian, who died in ...

A-List, 67, Actress Is 'Desperate' to Play Phyllis Diller in Movie originally appeared on Parade. Sharon Stone revealed that ...

Sharon Stone recently expressed her eagerness to portray Phyllis Diller in a biopic, ahead of the release of her new film, ...

Phyllis Diller RIP." She also tweeted, "last time I saw Ms. Diller she'd a stroke & when her assistant told her she could no longer drink gin, I immediately took her out 4 martinis." ...

View full size Associated Press Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, died Monday, Aug. 20, 2012, at age 95 in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/File) ...

-- @SethMacFarlane * "Phyllis Diller: you got to be here for almost a century, and you seemed genuinely happy the whole time" -- @pattonoswalt * "We lost a comedy legend today.

Phyllis Diller, the housewife turned humorist who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, punctuating her jokes with her trademark cackle, died Monday morning in Los Angeles at age 95.

Phyllis Diller, born Phyllis Ada Driver in 1917, began her life and lived a good part of it thinking she was ugly. Her family was not a hugging one and at times she was the brunt of cruel jokes ...

Aug. 21, 2012 -- Joan Rivers last saw Phyllis Diller three weeks ago. "She was running around, she was all dressed up, we swapped necklaces," Rivers told ABCNews.com. "I adored her.

Phyllis Diller kept Americans in stitches throughout her five-decade-long career in comedy, lampooning famous people, fads, family—and that is just one drawer. She kept all of her jokes meticulously ...

Stone, best known for her 90s erotic thrillers "Basic Instinct", "Sliver" and "The Specialist", has built an enviable filmography over the years by starring in movies such as "Casino", "Gloria", "The ...