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3 weeks for Paris Hilton - try 3 years dear!
TOPIC: 3 weeks for Paris Hilton - try 3 years dear!
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Re:3 weeks for Paris Hilton - try 3 years dear! 17 Years, 11 Months ago
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the jokes have started 17 Years, 11 Months ago
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Not so useless - Corporate America profits handsomely from her antics 17 Years, 11 Months ago
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from bloggingstocks:
www.bloggingstocks.com/2007/06/07/paris-...omely-from-her-anti/
Professional blond Paris Hilton has got some deep-pocketed fans in corporate America, including Comcast Corp. (NASDAQ: CMCSA), Warner Music Group Corp. (NYSE: WMG) and Time Warner Inc. (NYSE: TWX), who are hoping that she can pay her debt to society pretty quickly.
Hilton, who was released from jail this morning because of a medical condition, has shrewdly cashed in on her notoriety. She deserves a gold medal for parlaying her 15 minutes of fame into a show-business career. She's responsible for many awful trends including the growth in popularity of small toy-sized dogs and celebrity sex tapes. Her economic impact is undeniable.
Though she's confined to her home for the next 40 days, expect to see quite a bit more of the ditzy heiress America loves to hate.
Comcast's E! cable network is the newest home to The Simple Life. In the latest season of the show that refuses to die, Hilton and her sometimes BFF (best friend forever), Nicole Richie, are camp counselors who, among other things, motivate a group of overweight children to live healthier. No word if binging and purging will be covered.
For reasons best known to CEO Edgar Bronfman, Warner Music is putting out Hilton's album Paris, which is on sale for $19.98. Time Warner's TMZ.com site and other entertainment sites can count on millions of people hitting their pages for the latest gossip on Hliton. By the way, TMZ is reporting that Hilton's problem is emotional, not physical.
I neglected to mention her contribution to literature. Speculation was rampant that Hilton was planning a book about her prison experience, which I guess now is out the window since she didn't actually spend much time in the slammer. Hilton, though, is pretty resourceful and will no doubt pen a sequel to Confessions of an Heiress once she recovers from her ordeal.
Remember that corporate America profits handsomely from pop culture fads, even bad ones.
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Re:Not so useless - Corporate America profits handsomely from her antics 17 Years, 10 Months ago
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Perhaps the reason people are posting poor little rich girl, serves her right, is because that is the simple truth.
The facts are that Paris Hilton was arrested and convicted of drink driving, lost her licence, but was then subsequently rumbled behind the wheel by the rozzers, and then quite rightly sentenced to a VERY short stretch in klinky.
I believe her defence was based on her 'forgetting' that her licence had been revoked. Righto.
Compare this to the poor woman recently in the news, who was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for the supposedly heinous crime of allowing her son and his 16 year old friends to drink BEER at a house party.
Considering that in the state where this woman lives, people can get married at the age of 15, drive at 16 and join the army and be sent to be killed in Iraq when they are just 17. People can vote at 18, but they have to wait until they are 21 before they can take a sip of beer...?
What kind of country is this?
I believe the decision to release PH was taken by a local Distric Attorney, probably under the weight of pressure from an expensive and powerful legal team. Thank goodness the Federal DA took a different view and rightly sent her back to prison. And let's clarify what 'prison' atually means for Paris Hilton. She's not with the general population. She's in a semi-private wing reserved for high-profile inmates, as well as crooked cops and judges etc. I understand there is a nightly rate for this - a bit like a hotel.
I have absolutely no sympathy. None whatsoever. If Paris was so desperate to avoid prison she should have left the car at home and got one of her drivers to chauffeur her around.
What kind of message does this story send out?
Quite simply, it says that if you are from a wealthy, influential family, you can buy your way out of trouble. Much in the same way as footballers in the UK seem to get away with a whole manner of crimes, some of which are truly appalling. Violent assaults (both in public and on the pitch/training ground), (alleged) gang-rapes, drink driving, tax evasion etc etc et fucking cetera.
It's high time that a different message was delivered to the world's so-called elite. YOU ARE NOT ABOVE THE LAW.
Phew! Rant over...
Now, where did I leave my copy of Last Night In Paris...?
Adios,
Pete
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