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, ...

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) ...

(CBS/AP) Phyllis Diller, the housewife-turned-comedienne with the cackling laugh who aimed some of her sharpest barbs at herself, died Monday morning in her Los Angeles home. She was 95.

Instead, Phyllis eloped with Sherwood Diller, a pal of her brother, and became a mother of five. “My father, unfortunately, was kind of a bum,” Perry says.

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 ...