Paris Hilton in 'Gatsby' Remake (Signs of the Apocalypse)

Fox News ^ | Thursday, September 09, 2004 | Roger Friedman

[Xenalyte]

Okay, who'd win in a bore-off: Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, or Theodore Dreiser?

[presidio9]

You're crazy lady.

[Hoodlum91]

You beat me to it!! No acting needed by Paris. Just through some 20's style outfits on her and she IS Daisy, a self-absorbed socialite with more money than brains.

[dead]

With that cast, they should call this version "The Grate Gatsby".

[dangus]

Ahem... I'd check out her web page before I spoke to her like that. *chuckle*

[Xenalyte]

Not that there's anything wrong with that. :)

[Petronski]

I like Gatsby, and anyway, I'm quite certain it's Dreiser.

[cyborg]

NO!!!!!!

[ClearCase_guy]

Jay G. is cagey, he lives near the egg
He's got the money, he don' haf to beg!

Paris is Daisy? That talent scout's crazy!
My man Lance, at first he said "No way!"
Then that boy, he found out what it pay.

Those Hollywood guys, they always chase a buck
Too bad they make movies that really do suck

[Xenalyte]

After considering the snoozefests that were "Sister Carrie" and "An American Tragedy," I might have to concur.

However, "Babbitt" and "Main Street" both stultified as well.

[cyborg]

I nominate this post for poem of the day.

[PianoMan]

I'll take that whole genre over Waugh/Woolf et al any day.

[Petronski]

One time while reading Slaugherhouse Five, my head fell completely off of my body.

[ClearCase_guy]

You can check out my other work on the thread "Edwards Raps Bush"

[dangus]

I hate to tell you, but I've never read Dreiser. I kinda bounced around the tracking system in public school like a ping-pong ball. My understanding is that James Joyce is the all-time most boring author in history, and that the literati like to talk about him because he is so incoherent that it makes them seem smart.

OTOH, I've also heard the literati complain that people bought "A Brief History of Time" to make themselves look smart, but that no-one could actually read it. To the contrary, I found it had a most brilliant manner of teaching the abstractions of physics to the hoi palloi. I think the literati might simply not be that smart. I mean how many critics complained they couldn't follow Mission Impossible, a movie based on a Tom-and-Jerry episode, for Pete's sake.

[Flashman_at_the_charge]

The Great Gatsby is one of the few books I never finished. About a third in I realised that I didn't really give a rat's arse about what happened to any of the characters.

[Xenalyte]

I stand corrected. James Joyce is the supreme literary navel-gazer of all time. UGH.

Re lacking Dreiser: you ain't missing much. Life is too short to read sucky books someone used to think were good.

[dangus]

...Of anything but money, they don't give a um, a

(i'm stuck.)

[Xenalyte]

I must admit to never having read Waugh or Woolf. I do have a well-publicized dislike of the Transcendentalists, though. Bunch of posers.

[Williams]

You'd be surprised the degree to which I am NOT a prude, but am I the only one who thinks that after making a video of herself having sex in a threesome (and I believe eventually negotiating a cut of the profits for its distribution), Paris Hilton has identified herself as a stupid, filthy skank? I'm really disturbed by the media touting her as a cute show biz phenom when she participated in outright hard core pornography.