Gag me with a silver spoon! Get over yourself, darling.

Except your fifteen minutes are almost up, sweetie.

Yeah, dream on.

Unfortunately she's right.

She's just too stupid to realize that Marilyn Monroe represented raw sexual power and Princess Di represented grace under pressure. All Hilton represents is excess, the lack of character that often comes with extravagant inheritance, unfounded vanity, general shallowness, tacky reality TV, etc.

she's right

grace under pressure

???

I totally agree that she's right. Most unfortunate.

I think the 90s iconic blonde was Pamela Anderson, though, not Princess Diana.

Marilyn Monroe represented raw sexual power

Not power. Raw sexuality, perhaps. Monroe was far too vulnerable and troubled to represent power.

Paris Hilton slightly retarded fin de siecle decadence in a nutshell.

Ugh, that woman really bothers me. The best quote I heard to describe Paris Hilton was comparing her to staring at the ocean. There's nothing there but you just can't look away. I find that to be true for me. I just can't stop watching no matter how much I hate myself for it.

Paris Hilton Pose (note: loud music).

If, in fact, there can only be one at a time, when can we start talking about some other iconic blonde?

I don't care if it's Beyonce or Karyn Crisis--just throw me a goddamn bone already.

Paris comparing herself to Monroe? Um.

I did watch one of Paris' movies the other night and I must say that her perfomance in One Night in Paris didn't impress me much.

Not power. Raw sexuality, perhaps. Monroe was far too vulnerable and troubled to represent power.

She was bedding the sitting president, if that's not power...(but you're right I think, it was all offset by the vulnerable and troubled part).

Iconic blond or fart in a mitten?

ugh, Paris brings out the evil in me. I find myself wishing that something really terrible happens to her, just something that would permanently disfigure her like a really bad case of untreated syphilis or maybe a 3rd degree burn all over or one day she mistakes hydrofluoric acid for her foundation... Just something that permanently melts that damn face off so that I never have to see it again and she'll live on richer than krösus suddenly acutely aware of what a waste of space she used to be when all she can do is hang out and (try to) think since nobody wants to hang out with the freak any more.
Is that bad?

I keep thinking she is the type that usually doesn't age well. That kind of lifestyle is not conducive to keeping one's youth.

That having been said she doesn't annoy me. I sort of feel sorry for her.

So:
00s - Paris
90s - Pam Anderson
80s - Diana
70s - Farrah Fawcett?
60s - Monroe
50s - Donna Reed?
40s - ...

No, Monroe has to be fifties, she died in 62. Maybe Twiggy is the 1960s blond icon.

40s - Betty Grable.

Betty Grable..great gams (you have to say that when you hear her name).

I *heart* Paris Hilton.

Fo'reals, haters.

60s icons would be a tie between Samantha and Jeannie: (mostly) pliant blondes who could twitch or boink you up anything!

Madonna really needs to go in there somewhere. I'd put up Marlene Dietrich for '30s and Greta Garbo for '20s.

But I disagree that Paris is the blonde icon for this decade (however depressingly suitable it may seem)... And really, I don't think that word means what she thinks it means. To be iconic, someone has to have a little more exposure than American reality TV, porn videos, and gossip rags - and I don't think there's that many parts of the world that even know who she is. I didn't, for ages and ages... and the only reason she started making it onto the Greek radar is when she was involved with the other Paris.

Icons are globally famous (try to find a spot in the world where people don't know who Madonna is), and their images are so enduring, dramatic, and thrilling that they remain vivid long after their deaths - possibly even for centuries. Icons inspire art, cinema, literature and music. Their impact is so strong that all lesser celebrity mortals with qualities in common will forever be measured by their yardstick. (Bardot, for example, could have been the blond icon of the '50s, but for Marilyn.)

Paris fits none of the criteria.

OK but who's the blonde icon for this decade then? please don't tell me Britney

We're so pathetic, we don't even have an icon. (But it would definitely be Britney before it would be Paris.)

OK but who's the blonde icon for this decade then?

Hillary.

bwahahahahahaha!

Madonna really needs to go in there somewhere.

Except she's not blonde; the blonde thing was just to emulate Marilyn Monroe.