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Sharon Stone didn't hesitate to name Robert De Niro "the best kisser in the business"

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• Stone and De Niro starred opposite each other in the 1995 film Casino, during which they filmed a steamy scene where De Niro "just knocked me out," Stone said

• "Oh, he kissed me right out of my shoes," the actress shared

Sharon Stoneis reminiscing on the best kisser in Hollywood.

In an April 1 appearance onSiriusXM'sAndy Cohen Live,Stone dished on the very best kiss from her acting career: a particular steamy scene with oneRobert De Niro. The duo played Ginger McKenna and Sam "Ace" Rothstein, respectively, in Martin Scorsese's 1995 crime classic,Casino.

"Oh my god. He's the best kisser in the business," Stone said, wistfully. As Cohen expressed his surprise, Stone doubled down: "Oh, he kissed me right out of my shoes."

In the scene leading up to the big lip-lock, Stone recalled her character had to go to the bathroom, and because her character is a "hustler," she gets De Niro's Ace to give her money to go. In turn, Ace pulled out 50 dollars. "And I look at him like, 'Really, I think a little more than 50 for the bathroom.'"

"And he looks at me, and he reaches in and he gives me like a hundred, and then I lean over and I kiss him. And he just really just knocked me out, right?" Stone recalled.

She continued, "And Marty [director Martin Scorsese] cut and he looks at us and he goes, 'I think we got it, but would you guys like another one?' And we were both looked at him and went, 'Yeah, I think I think maybe we need one more.'"

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Stone previously shared that early on in her career, it was her personal goal to work with De Niro one day. Speaking withBusiness Insiderin August 2025, theBasic Instinctstar shared she had auditioned numerous times with him, but it never panned out beforeCasino.

"It was my dream to work with De Niro and hold my own," she told the outlet.

In a 2023 interview withVariety, Stone detailed the challenges of working as a woman in Hollywood and experiencing misogyny from "some really big stars." Many times, the men she's worked with sought to control her performance, so as not to outshine their own, she said.

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And while she'd run into her fair share of unsavory characters during her time in Hollywood, Stone assured the outlet that De Niro and theirCasinocostarJoe Pesci(who played Nicky Santoro) were the complete opposite.

"I've worked with some of the biggest stars in the business, who will literally talk through my close-up, telling me what they think I should do," she said. "They're so misogynistic — now, that is not Robert De Niro. That is not Joe Pesci, that is not those guys."

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Jamie Lee Curtis grew emotional when she revealed that her oldest daughter Annie welcomed her first baby in December, days after their family's close friends Rob Reiner and Michele Reiner were killed

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• Curtis is married to Christopher Guest, a close collaborator of Rob Reiner's; Curtis said Rob and Michele were godparents to Annie

• Rob and Michele's son Nick was charged with two counts of first-degree murder in connection with his parents' deaths

Jamie Lee Curtiswas especially close withRobandMichele Reiner, who were godparents to her daughter Annie. While appearing on the most recent episode ofMichelle Obamaand Craig Robinson'spodcastIMO,the Oscar winner became emotional when discussing how her friends were killed on Annie's birthday.

During the interview, theFreakier Fridayactress, 67, who's married toChristopher Guest, revealed that her older daughter Annie, 39,welcomed a baby back in December, a week after the Reiner deaths.

"Their baby boy was born in December, and it was a week after Rob and Michele [died], and Rob and Michele are her godparents," Curtis said through tears. "They died on her birthday. My beautiful daughter, who loved them as we all did, managed to be able to metabolize that grief and sadness … [and then] brought their son into this world a week later."

Rob and Michele werewere found dead inside their Los Angeles homeon Dec. 14. The couple's sonNick, 32, wasarrestedthat same night andcharged with two counts of first-degree murderin connection with their deaths.

On the podcast, Curtis described the series of events for her family in December as "life on life's harshest terms and life on life's most beautiful, perfect terms."

Curtis and Guest, who have been married since 1984, sharedaughtersAnnie and Ruby. As Curtis revealed on Instagram in 2019, her familyhosted Annie's weddingto husband Jason Wolf at their home in Los Angeles. (The couple's younger daughter Ruby also got married to her partner Kynthia at Curtis and Guests' home; Curtisofficiatedthe 2022 ceremony.)

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Curtis' husband Guest famously worked with Rob on his impactful 1984 mockumentaryThis Is Spinal Tap. The pair reunited for a sequel to the cult comedy,Spinal Tap II: The End Continues, which released in September 2025, just months before the filmmaker's death.

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In the immediate aftermath of Rob and Michele's deaths in December, Curtis told PEOPLE in a statement that she and her husband were "numb and sad and shocked about the violent, tragic deaths of our dear friends."

"Our ONLY focus and care right now is for their children and immediate families and we will offer all support possible to help them," she wrote at the time.

In addition to Nick, who remains incarcerated more than three months after his parents' deaths, Rob and Michelesharedson Jake, 34, and daughter Romy, 28. Rob was also a father to daughter Tracy, whom he adopted during his first marriage to Penny Marshall.

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Louis C.K.is returning to Netflix years after he was embroiled in theMe Too movement.

The 58-year-old comedian's upcomingheadlining showat the Hollywood Bowl, a new addition to theNetflix Is a Joke Festlineup, was announced on Thursday, April 2.

The standup set will take place Tuesday, May 5, toward the beginning of the streaming giant's weeklong schedule that's jam-packed with hundreds of comedy events across Los Angeles starring the likes ofJerry Seinfeld,Larry David,Kevin HartandSteve Carell. Tickets go on sale April 6 at 10 a.m. PT.

C.K.'s standup special, "Ridiculous" – for which he will also receive directing and executive producing credits – will come out this summer.

The same day as C.K.'s set, Hart, Seinfeld, Katt Williams, David Letterman and John Mulaney, Ilana Glazer and Ramy Youssef, Nicole Byer and Jim Gaffigan are among the dozens of performers also taking the stage across LA County. Shane Gillis,who also landed in hot waterover past comments widely viewed as racist and more recent jokes deemed offensive, is also part of the lineup, hosting "a blockbuster night of comedy" at the Bowl on May 4.

Tony Hinchcliffe, who faced widespread backlash in 2024for calling Puerto Ricoa "floating island of garbage" and making otherremarks deemed as racistat a rally for then president-electDonald Trump, will do a live recording of his "Kill Tony" podcast at Inglewood's Intuit Dome on May 7 as part of Netflix is a Joke.

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C.K., whose shelf is lined with a number of Grammy and Emmy Awards, was exposed for sexually harassing behavior in a 2017New York Times reportin which five women alleged the comedian had exposed himself and masturbated in front of them. The allegations followed a few years ofreports about the comedian's inappropriate behavioraround women, which he had steadfastly denied at the time.

After the Times' article was published, C.K. issueda contrite response, acknowledging the accusations were "true" and saying, "The power I had over these women is that they admired me. And I wielded that power irresponsibly."

Within a year of the comedian vowing to "step back and take a long time to listen," he was on tour and selling out several shows. He addressed the allegations in the 2020 standup special "Sincerely Louis C.K.," and at one point explained, "Men are taught to make sure the woman is OK. The thing is, women know how to seem OK when they're not OK. So you can't just look at her face and be like, 'Her eyes are dry, we're fine. Let's just keep going.'"

In July, he went on the road with hisRidiculous comedy tour, which took him across North America, and to Europe, India, Thailand, Hong Kong and Japan.

Contributing: Marco della Cava, USA TODAY

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY:Louis CK Netflix standup special announced years after allegations