A generation of panty-eschewing shock-starlets owe a giant debt of gratitude to Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone, whose early advances in the vagina-flashing sciences are the stuff of legend. Still, someone who's been in the game as long as Stone has knows that as effective a statement can be made using nothing more than a little modesty and timeless elegance. Case in point: the actress's choice of ensemble for the 13th Annual Make-A-Wish Ball in Miami over the weekend, which kept her fabulous-at-50 body almost completely covered, save perhaps for an alluring glimpse of bare shoulder. And for at least one 13-year-old boy with leukemia who fantasized about experiencing "a faceful of Sharon Stone cameltoe just once," it was a night in which dreams really did come true.

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