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Sharon Stone to film Welles classic in Ireland...

Basic Instinct star Sharon Stone, who is a regular visitor to Ireland and also set to film here later this year has adopted and baby boy. After several attempts to have their own children, the 42-year-old sex symbol and her husband, Phil Bronstein, adopted a baby boy last month. They've named their new son Roan Joseph Bronstein.

Roan for those of you not Irish is the Celtic for "seal." The child's second name Joseph is after Stone's father, according to US Weekly reports.

Stone is will more then likely bring the child to Ireland with her later this year when she heads to Grangegorman area of Dublin. The actress is being lined up to play one of the lead roles in a remake of the Orson Welles classic The Magnificent Ambersons. Parts of Grangegorman are being transformed into turn-of-the-century Indianapolis for the 14-week shoot. Sets are already being built for the two-part mini-series on the site where Neil Jordan's Michael Collins was made. With further names yet to be con firmed, more Hollywood stars are expected to throng the capital when shooting begins in July.

The original 1942 film, shot by Orson Welles as a follow-up to Citizen Kane, was savagely cut by the studio before release. But film buffs will be glad to hear that the studio has released the original Welles script for the remake. The cutting of the original Welles script was a disaster.

Production manager John Phelan, a Dubliner who has worked alongside Jodie Foster and Bruce Willis, is delighted that the movie is being made here.

Orson Welles began his career at 17 in The Gate Theatre so it is appropriate that his original script is restored and a wrong is righted in the city. There will be roles too for Irish actors.

Anyway back ot the gossip. Stone and her husband, who tied the knot in 1998, found their new son thanks to an adoption lawyer, who located an unwed teen in Texas who wanted to give up the child. In the magazine, Stone says she has had several miscarriages but had planned to adopt whether or not she gave birth.

The actress, who's been displaying her maternal side recently in films like The Mighty and Gloria, was overcome with emotion the first time she cradled Roan, she tells US Weekly. "He's my wonderful, precious little Buddha. He eats like a champion. He sleeps peacefully - and he's the apple of his daddy's eye," she says. She jokes about wearing baby vomit to next year's Academy Awards. "It's my color," kids the stylish movie star.

Roan was born several weeks prematurely, on May 22, and weighed 5 pounds, 6 ounces. He was adopted when he was just a week old by Stone and Bronstein, who flew to Texas to pick up their new son in person.