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posted by puke & cry 08 June | 15:21

Best news I've heard all day.

posted by smich 08 June | 15:23

I have a feeling that the Hiltons are spreading money around like peanut butter. I'm sorry, but acting like a diva is not a reason to get out of jail.

posted by muddgirl 08 June | 15:27

Let me be the first to say:

Neeneer neeneer neeeeeeneer!

posted by Specklet 08 June | 15:39

Just saw this too. I wish the woman would a grip and do her time with dignity. She's only furthering her humiliation.

My guess is that she's addicted to prescription pain pills or Xanax and won't be able to get her fix. She probably has a valid prescription, but they're not on her person, but doled out instead. Or, maybe she's just a whiny baby that can't cope. The pill theory may be way out in left field. I'm stereotyping.

posted by LoriFLA 08 June | 16:02

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posted by puke & cry 08 June | 16:05

Eponysterical.

posted by Specklet 08 June | 16:09

I can understand her behavior. She was born into a culture that never provided any of the knocks that the rest of us get. Her parents programmed her to be above the everyday rules of life, not to mention silly things such as laws.

This will not change her. The weight of her experiences says that she is special. She'll go to her grave feeling wronged and persecuted.

I feel certain that her lawyers will make sure that her meds keep flowing. . .

(sometimes it feels like it would be cool to be locked up with a pile of back reading, but it would probably get old.)

posted by danf 08 June | 16:12

sometimes it feels like it would be cool to be locked up with a pile of back reading

Only if you know how to read in the first place.

posted by scody 08 June | 16:27

Ooooooh snap!

posted by Specklet 08 June | 16:37

WAAAAH!! WAAAH!!

Enjoy your vacation, sweetie!

posted by jonmc 08 June | 16:38

danf: That was exactly my reaction.

Also I am sorry she's having her weepy flogging so very publicly, even if it is absolutely her own doing that her flogging is so public. On the other hand, there is no reason to be sorry she's having so much public humiliation. She's pretty well the classic case of not distinguishing positive from negative attention and only caring that people are looking at her.

posted by crush-onastick 08 June | 16:45

I don't know, I kind of feel bad for her.

I mean, I hate everything she stands for. And I *do* think that she's not above the law and that the rules that the rest of us mere mortals follow should apply to her, and so should the punishments.

But, as danf observed, she's been raised as a special snowflake. She's never gotten a bad grade, or been fired, or eaten ramen for weeks, or had to worry about whether she could pay all the bills or if she could put off getting that lump checked out for one more month. She's a product of her upbringing, and I don't know if I can blame her for what she's become. Her parents, yes. But not really her.

I think her sentence is just and she should serve it (actually, that's not true--I think DUI should be a capital offense, enacted immediately, but that's just me...) but I don't have it in me to gloat about it.

I pity her for what she'll never be.

posted by Fuzzbean 08 June | 16:49

My sentiments are similar to your, Fuzzbean. I can't help but think part of this is her being caught in a pissing contest between the judge and the sheriff, though. Anyhow,she'd have been so much better off to keep her head down, do the twenty or so days and get on with life.

OTOH, being a believer, I cannot help but wonder if God simply has an appointment with Miss Paris, and He wants to get her attention, in a place where the usual distractions are not an issue.

posted by bunnyfire 08 June | 17:00

At the risk of becoming a bore, I'll repeat myself: Why exactly do we care about this? I realize this is the bread and butter of the Perez Hiltons of the world, but seriously, I think we're a bit above it. [NOT ELITIST]

posted by deadcowdan 08 June | 17:04

Where's TPS? I find her lack of commenting on this celeb gossip thread offensive.

posted by qvantamon 08 June | 17:23

I think we're a bit above it.

Oh please. Here's the thing: many of us are perfectly capable of being highly intelligent, creative, productive people with an interest in all manner of literature, the state of the world, fine wine, nuanced discussions of politics, etc. AND partake of celebrity gossip and other twaddle. Shockingly, the two things are not mutually exclusive.

And I'll give up sweet, delicious schadenfreude for the Paris Hiltons of the world when the gub'mint pulls it from my cold, dead lips. (Or when I become a buddhist monk, whichever happens first.)

posted by scody 08 June | 17:26

deadcowdan: I think there are things to be discussed here that don't amount to just talking about a undeservedly celebrated rich girl. It's not like we're talking about her sweatshirt, uncoiffed hair or speculating on the state of her eyebrows after 28 days of no waxing or tweezing.

posted by crush-onastick 08 June | 17:29

what scody said.

posted by puke & cry 08 June | 17:29

And here's a great comment from the blue about why this is actually important.

posted by scody 08 June | 17:31

Scody, I don't know if you watch LA TV much, but it must be all Paris all the time, the past few days, huh?

posted by danf 08 June | 18:01

Oh please.

*shrugs*

Have at it, then. Just seems strange to see intelligent people getting worked up about it.

posted by deadcowdan 08 June | 18:25

Scody, thanks for posting that comment. It was quite poignant, and I probably would have missed it.
Personally, I'm more of the "Meh. Whatever." about the whole thing.

posted by redvixen 08 June | 18:47

danf, you're right: she's virtually inescapable here.

Actually, this brings up an interesting (to me) question: L.A. is basically Paris-saturated -- constant coverage on local TV and in the paper (and not even when she's getting thrown into the pokey -- they cover where she's partying, which other party girls she's in a spat with, etc.), plus billboards and posters everywhere for her TV show (and her "music" "CD" a few months ago), plus her mug on any website that's even tangentially related to TV/film.

How much of that happens nationally? She's obviously famous just for being famous outside L.A. (e.g., she's on the cover of national magazines, "The Simple Life" runs on a national network), but does every other city get barraged by Paris Hilton billboards/posters/daily news updates/etc. too?

posted by scody 08 June | 19:02

There's no such thing as bad publicity.

posted by Eideteker 08 June | 19:08

Scody--here in Chicago, if I don't turn on certain parts of the internet (like news.google/entertainment or gofugyourself), I can go weeks without seeing/hearing/reading anything about her or Lindsay Lohan or what'shisname's anorectic daughter. Since I buy the NYTimes or the WSJ print edition that often happens. Not when one of them is going to jail or crashing her car, of course, but otherwise. It is another nice thing about the midwest.

posted by crush-onastick 08 June | 19:13

Same here in the Great Pacific Northwest. I live a virtually Paris/Lindsay-free life, most of the time.

posted by bmarkey 08 June | 19:16

I was watching Sports Center with the hubby and they ran the story. I was all like, "OMG, why is SportsCenter airing the Paris story? Is she an athlete?" Husband said something about plenty of balls being in her face, so I gave him a hard smack across the face. Kidding about the smack.

NPR has been getting a lot of angry emails from listeners. NPR is running the story along the same reasons suggested in the blue, that scody mentioned up-thread.

It's sad that the woman hasn't got a clue and that her parents didn't clue her in that it's inappropriate behavior. Like fuzzbean, I feel sorry that she'll probably never have a clue. Hopefully in these 45 days her popularity will go out the window.

posted by LoriFLA 08 June | 19:29

Only 180 miles up the coast, we are mostly Paris-free. Our big celebrities here the baseball players from Cal Poly and Cuesta College who were just drafted by the Major Leagues and the Chief Admin. of the Atascadero State Mental Hospital who just took early retirement (if anyone needs some 'mental health' time off, he must). And the reunited English Beat with Dave Wakelin is playing at Downtown Brew tonight.

And what drives Paris and the "must-cover-Paris" media is not popularity, it's notoriety. Yes, even notoriety has been severely devalued.

posted by wendell 08 June | 19:38

btw, the record company that produced the paris hilton album is being sued for ripping off a ub40 song.

posted by puke & cry 08 June | 20:00

Wow, the rest of the world reads like a de-Paris-ized zone.

In other words: heaven.

Apparently residents of West Hollywood and the Hollywood Hills were awakened at 5:30 this morning by armies of media choppers (and having tried to sleep in the vicinity of a single hovering news helicopter before, I can only imagine how effin' loud that was) waiting to get the first aerial shots of Paris being taken out of her house in handcuffs.

Wendell, you're exactly spot-on: it's about notoreity, and even that ain't what it used to be.

posted by scody 08 June | 20:05

She's never gotten a bad grade

Now that one at least I find hard to believe.

The thing I like best about this is finally getting to see an expression on her face that is not that creepy smug half smile.

posted by Orange Swan 08 June | 20:06

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posted by Doohickie 08 June | 21:04

Actually, this brings up an interesting (to me) question: L.A. is basically Paris-saturated . . . How much of that happens nationally?

Now that you mention it, here in New York, if you don't read the Daily News or The Post and if you don't watch TV, you can pretty much tune her out.

Which is very surprising, considering how strong the celebrity-worship culture is here.

posted by jason's_planet 08 June | 23:52

I find it hard to muster up any amount of anger or self-righteousness about this issue. She is pretty far down the rich-and-powerful scale to see it as a vindication of justice being applied evenly to the have and have nots.

She should do her time, but why should she be mocked for it?

posted by edgeways 08 June | 23:52

Because she is put forth in the media as one of the cool kids, but there she is cryin' like a baby in the back of a squad car and sobbing, "I love you, Mom!" in the court room.

posted by Doohickie 09 June | 00:41

How many violins?

Book Soup was shut down for a day after she came to "read" from her "book".

posted by brujita 09 June | 08:51

If only they were jailing her for excessive vapidity.

posted by trondant 09 June | 10:47

If only they were jailing her for excessive vapidity.

We couldn't build prisons fast enough if that was a jail-able offense.

posted by edgeways 09 June | 12:55

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