Nearly 13 years after the comedy legend's death, Sharon Stone hopes to make a biopic about her late friend Phyllis Diller.

"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 has revealed she is determined to bring the life story of her late friend and comedy icon Phyllis Diller to the big screen. Nearly 13 years after Diller’s passing, ...

Legendary actress Sharon Stone has her eyes on her dream role. But it's a sharp departure from the villains she's often ...

(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.

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) ...

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.

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 ...

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