[GSlob]

"Clear them out of your life as the scandalous and evil-living lot they are"
Michelangelo Buonarroti

[Popocatapetl]

[jdm]

It was a picture of the young women walking hand-in-hand, Hilton in a T-shirt that read "I'm Paris Hilton, I can do whatever I want." Next to her, Spears wore a shirt reading, "I'm Paris Hilton, I can do whatever I want."

LOL! Now *that* is funny!

[KarlInOhio]

Hilton is like some kind of Dorian Gray cockroach. While her buddies waste away and collapse and see their careers flushed down the celebrity toilet after having been in her presence, she grows stronger:

That was beautiful. I have tears in my eyes.

[TChris]

When Paris tore into Britney -- who, whatever inane decisions she has made, or been pushed into, during her decade in our pop culture consciousness, has retained an aura of pink-cheeked, creamy-bellied vulnerability -- she crossed a line.

Huh?

I think the word "vulnerable" quit applying to Britney about the time she quit appearing on The Mickey Mouse Club.

Paris and Britney are two peas in a pod, AFICT.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

"Math is HARD!" ~ Barbie ;)

[finnman69]

The best part of House of Wax was Paris Hilton getting impaled through her empty head.

[r9etb]

The unpleasant truth: Paris Hilton is a symptom, not a cause. She's famous because normal people made her famous: the crapazines at the checkout counters don't make money just by sitting there -- people have to buy them first.

This is what happens when a nation gets rid of its moral underpinnings.

[Enchante]

"For years we've been paralyzed in the tractor beam of her brainless celebrity."

No, Rebecca, you twit -- only vapid imbeciles like you have been "paralyzed in the tractor beam of her brainless celebrity" -- most of us could not care less and barely know who she is. Paris who? I thought that was the name of a large city just north of Vichy, France.....

[I see my hands]

To: Rebecca Traister

Your jealousy is showing.

[quark]

So many good lines. My favorite takeaway:

"'It' means a hairless hooch and the willingness to expose it."

Now that there's funny; I don't care who you are!

[PGalt]

LOL! Go Paris Go!

[x]

Here's another article:

Why We Love to Loathe Paris: We can't resist having a go at the decadent rich. And she fits the role of 'heirhead' royalty to a T.

[Bratch]

The other almost-supernatural aspect of Hilton's reign of harebrained horror is the way that she herself remains intact while those around her wither. Hilton is like some kind of Dorian Gray cockroach. While her buddies waste away and collapse and see their careers flushed down the celebrity toilet after having been in her presence, she grows stronger: appearing on more magazine covers, getting bigger record contracts, attracting more attention, sleeping with more of her fading friends' boyfriends. Even her Plasticine exterior seems unravaged by her excessive behaviors.

She is, frustratingly, indestructible. Hilton has been caught on tape referring to two black friends as "dumb niggers." She has been arrested for drunk driving. She has peed herself in a taxicab in Hawaii. She has vomited onstage while singing her own songs. She has laughed like a retarded hyena as boyfriends like Davis and Niarchos have embarrassed themselves and ruined their own reputations. And yet, she has never had to go on Letterman to apologize; she has never had to meet with leaders of a community to make amends; she never even had to clean the taxi that she befouled.

Hmm.

What other public figure does that description call to mind?

[Rb ver. 2.0]

****Bump to the top. One of the best reads I've seen in a long time. Eviscerating in its truthful brutality.****

[relictele]

Hilton is the perfect People/US/Parade celebrity - famous for being famous. She defies any sort of intelligent criticism since she doesn't do anything (as the author points out).

She is also the perfect mirror to hold up to society - people who take an interest in Hilton frighten and sadden me. I will refrain from stereotyping those who follow empty celeb gossip but I think we all know the sort. There are so many other things to learn and do in this world.