January 23, 2007	Tuesday	Muharram 03, 1428

LOS ANGELES, Jan 22: Sharon Stone and “Basic Instinct 2” were top of the flops here on Monday as organisers of Hollywood’s annual Oscars parody – the Razzies – unveiled their nominations for 2006’s “worst of the worst”.

The critically panned sequel to the 1992 psychological murder mystery received seven Razzie nods, which come one day before the official Oscars nominations are announced in Beverly Hills on Tuesday.

“Unenjoyable, unerotic, unwatchable,” was how one reviewer summed up Basic Instinct 2 last year, while another stuck the boot into screen goddess Stone opining that there “are inflatable toys that are livelier.” “Basic Instinct 2” received nominations for worst picture, actress, supporting actor, director, sequel, screenplay and screen couple.

The only consolation that Stone and the movie’s creators could take from Monday’s announcements was that they had a rival for worst film of the year in the shape of “Little Man” by Wayans brothers Keenen Ivory, Shawn and Marlon.

The slapstick comedy was derided by one reviewer as being “one-joke short of a one-joke movie”, was described by the Golden Raspberry Award Foundation as being a “blatant knock-off of a 1954 Bugs Bunny cartoon”.

“Little Man” joined “Basic Instinct 2” at the head of the roll of dis-honour with seven nominations – worst picture, actor (2), remake/rip-off, director, screenplay and screen couple.

Internet users consider Boll “the worst director alive today”, the Razzies organisers noted in a press release.

Cage will be among the nominees for worst actor of 2006, which also include last year's winner Rob Schneider for “Benchwarmers” and TV funnyman Tim Allen for a trio of “terrible” films: “Santa Clause 3”, “Shaggy Dog” and “Zoom”. In the worst actress category, Stone faces competition from two of Hollywood’s rising starlets, Jessica Simpson and Lindsay Lohan.—AFP