How bout Paris Hilton?

[rainbabies]

Anyone?

I think I may *gasp* be getting over Tom and Katie.

Paris Hilton is so ugly IMO. Why oh why is she so popular? She screams nasty, distasteful, riding the coat-tales(among other things) slut. Yet people are so facinated by her....including myself.



on another note, I have found a website that I am to admit browsing. If you're interested.... fellow gossip lovers it is:

http://www.gossiprocks.com/

there is a forum section.

I think she is terrible as well. Not to mention the retarded roll model that she has become to the teen/college age girls. Has anyone seen the Paris Hilton South Park episode. I actually laffed on this one! Hackk Gaack! :!

[mommax3]

She personifies the word "skank" in my opinion.

yeah. we need a "gossip" forum.

and I agree w/Sally re: Paris.

ETA: That's why I like Pink's song "Stupid Girls". Pink is hot & she shows her body, but she shows her brains, too (whether or not you agree w/her politics). And Pink earned her money, where Paris, Nicky, Nicole, et al just got it from their mommies and daddies.

Celebutantes like Paris are just famous for being famous. She doesn't know the value of anything earned. She and Nicole are purely rotten. I am basing this on the media buzz, and watching The Simple Life (just a few times). Can you say "Train Wreck"? Or "Slutty, Slutty, Ho Bag"? I don't think either one of them is attractive.

Just goes to show you can shop at Chanel and be in line for a billion dollar business and still be white trash.

[DCJenn]

I think she's horrible but I place the blame directly at her parent's feet. I mean really, the Marriott kids and grandkids don't act like that! Bill Gates daughter has an allowance and she has to donate X% of it each week.

Stagemanaged kids are always screwed up. I mean if my child is talentless, I'm certainly not going to get him a recording contract! (she has a cd coming out...)

Jenn

[Sheherezade]

I am tempted to do another song here, because "skank" rhymes with "bank". Coincidence? I don't think so. :>


(And man, am I lovin' the little :> guy today!)

She is so ridiculous. I definitely blame the parents. How could they not be embarrased by her?

Donald Trump's kids seem really grounded. They don't seemed spoiled and are well educated kids. Apparently, he only let them have a $200 credit card limit in college and taught them the values of hard work and money. I liked watching them on the Apprentice.

[rainbabies]

Here is what Charlotte Church has to say....she should know....that girl CAN sing! Beautiful!

Church Slams 'Awful' Hilton Track

Jun 11, 2006 - World Entertainment News Network
Welsh pop star Charlotte Church has mocked Paris Hilton's move into music, insisting her forthcoming single smacks of "nasa technology".

The classically-trained singer is unimpressed with the blonde socialite's foray into pop, branding debut track Screwed "bloody awful".

She says, "When I heard her song I thought, 'Wow, isn't it amazing what Nasa technology can do with someone's voice."

"Paris is bloody awful. Honestly I heard a bit of it on the radio and it's terrible."

"Everyone to their own but it's not like she needs the money."

I also read somewhere that her voice is SO weak that the engineers had to put her voice over itself many, many times...this way it sounded "richer".

:>

We're waiting, Angie!

[pstone]

Well now, one would be wide to tread carefully around this group eh?

Anyway, I would venture to say that people are interested because she is young, rich, and without a care in the world.

I for one can understand the draw of youth, the seduction of unlimited money and surely everyone here can just imagine not having a care in the world...ah....to have no responsibility! Save making wanted posters for your dog tinkerbell.

Note, none of this means she is not shamlessley over the line in so many ways, but who did not behave suspect at least sometimes in their youth?-or is that just me.

When the boy is screaming for the last hour, and the laundry won't stop, and the call day is approaching 32 hours, can't you imagine the stress of trying to decide what 500$ pair of sunglasses to wear?

[MissCrabette]

I'm with you Jenn. This is all her parents' fault. Have you seen her mom? Yikes! No wonder she turned out the way she did. My fiance went to highschool with one of the Marriott girls and I heard nothing but good things about her. That goes to show that you can have money and still raise your kids to be responsible adults.

[SuzySunshine]

Interestingly enough - this was in our paper today:

BOSTON — Now let us praise Paris
Hilton.
This is not a phrase I ever
expected to fall from my lips or my
laptop. The high school dropout and
celebutante is the heiress that
America loves to ridicule. Nevertheless,
I raise a glass to Paris, the
young and the spoiled, the rich and
rhymes-with-rich, after the neardeath
experience of the estate tax.
Paris may yet become the unwitting
icon who pulls us from the
brink of policy madness.
Earlier this month, the Senate
almost eliminated the inheritance
tax and the billions it raises. Now
Republican leaders have vowed to
bring the fight against this tax back
to the campaign trail.
So while we are in this brief
intermission, let us take a moment
to see how the debate plays out
against two of the most powerful,
ongoing narratives in our country:
the Self-Made American and the
Spoiled Brat.
Remember when eliminating the
estate tax first got on the conservative
dance card? The choreographers
labeled it the “death tax.”
According to this spin, the long arm
of the government reached into the
grave to snatch dollars, family farms
and small businesses.
This was only gradually and belatedly
countered by the reality that it
was really the Waltons, Marses,
Campbells and other family oligarchs
behind this policy. There is a
growing recognition that this isn’t a
tax on the dead but on their heirs
whose only heavy lifting may be carrying
their parents’ DNA.
Two Yale professors first suggested
that if the estate tax is
labeled the death tax by its opponents,
the attempt to get rid of it
should be called the “Paris Hilton
Tax Relief Act.” Since then, we’ve
had ads with Paris look-alikes and
tag lines saying: “The last thing a
rich heiress needs is a $1 trillion
raise in her allowance.”
So here we are.
The central myth of
America the Beautiful
Meritocracy is
that we can all pick
ourselves up by our
bootstraps, go from
rags to riches,
garage to
Googledom. It’s long
been noted that
Americans aren’t
jealous of the rich
because we all hope to become rich.
We may oppose estate taxes on the
very, very, very wealthy because we
dream of leaving that sort of wealth
to our own kids.
On the other hand, Americans
have long regarded heirs and
heiresses with envy and scorn. Yes,
the cream may rise to the top of the
Fortune 500 list, but money easily
curdles their kids into spoiled brats.
Chalk it up to the growing gap
between the rich and the poor, or
the class structure we’re not supposed
to talk about, but there have
been an awful lot of cultural entries
into the spoiled brat genre. We’ve
had a parade of movies and MTV
series and novels from “My Super
Sweet 16” to “Laguna Beach” to
“Keeping Up with the Steins.”
Paris may be little more than
every mogul’s worst nightmare. Parents
who do well often have kids
who do good. But millionaires also
worry that their kids feel indolently
entitled. Imagine the conversation
that middle-class parents have
about allowances — “money doesn’t
grow on trees, you know” — in
homes where money drops like
leaves from the family arboretum.
Andrew Carnegie famously said,
“I would as soon leave to my son a
curse as the almighty dollar.” He
then added, “it is not the welfare of
the children, but family pride,
which inspires these enormous legacies.”
This brings us back to the
Self-Made American and the
Spoiled Brat, to death and Paris
and the estate tax.
The Death Tax? In 2009, only
estates worth more than $3.5 million
(or $7 million for a couple) would be
taxed. That’s three out of every 1,000
estates. After exemptions and
deductions, the effective tax rate on
average is estimated to be 17 percent.
Why exactly should the money
handed down to super-rich heirs be
tax-free while the money earned by
your children be taxable income?
The Paris Hilton Tax Relief Act?
Billionaire Warren Buffett has said
that the right inheritance for children
is “enough money so that they
feel they could do anything but not
so much that they could do
nothing.’’ Paris, already a trust-fund
baby, is enterprising enough to
make money off of being an heiress.
But she’s due to inherit a chunk of
the hotel fortune worth well over a
billion. If we retain an estate tax,
she might have to scrimp by on less
than her estimated share of about
$50 million.
Ah, poor little rich icon. No wondering
she’s starring in “The Simple
Life.”
Ellen Goodman is a columnist for the
Boston Globe. Her e-mail address is ellengoodman@
globe.com.

What else is there to say about someone who lets the papparazzi photograph her crotch?

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