Paris Hilton is going to jail!!!

[bouche]

If you want to talk about Paris, you have to link up the paparazzi glory shots.

[SevenSeasJim]

mmmm Hilton Clam

[MarcO]

I still say that as much as I find a heiress's attitude that she is better than other people and above the law offensive, I find the gleeful reaction of the average layperson to her plight even more appalling.

[phorbesie]

layperson...lol

don't feel badly marco, she'll be ok

"She’s been proven a porn star, an STD patient, a racist anti-Semite, a drunk driver and now an inmate. Were almost anyone else the perpetrator of such a laundry list of offenses, they would have been excommunicated from polite society months ago. And yet, Paris Hilton not only survives, she thrives. She makes profit from hopeless situations. She is a modern alchemist and she is a human cockroach. In the event of nuclear winter, when the corpses and rubble are all covered in ash, and any semblance of authority is long gone, Paris Hilton, completely clean and wearing heels, will click-clack down the barren streets of Rodeo Drive, salvaging whatever Chanel handbags she can. She will go on without us. It’s officially impossible to stop her. Submit."

Edited June 9, 2007 by Guest

[SmoothedShredder]

Who's Paris?

[phorbesie]

late night musings...

just in thinking about jail and if she is in a special unit (ie. alone) i imagine it's comparable to seclusion meditation. at least that's how i would approach it if i ever had to go.

having spent weeks in isolation and silence with no materials before, i know how much you learn about your own character, since you're just left with your thoughts for all that time. i've seen some people freak out and lose it after a few days or a week from whatever they saw or brought up in their mind.

so i can only imagine that if paris is experiencing that sort of revelation that she would freak out upon realizing that once all external trappings are removed, there isn't any character there. i think that would be pretty terrifying.

[Dr_Evil_Mouse]

I remember reading in a book by Erich Fromm - the title escapes me at present - the same point, that most North Americans would go insane if forced away from their TVs and other media to sit in silence for even a short time. We have too much to deal with, finding an identity outside of all of that not the least.

[Birdy]

I think this thread greatly underestimates Paris' intelligence. She's no half-wit.

[phorbesie]

i just looked a bit on wiki to read her history and try to find anything she's ever done that could be deemed intelligent or humanitarian or anything like an education, but couldn't.

i also read the initial article in this thread and it sure shows she's not too bright.

btw i'm not interested in the argument that 'she knows exactly what she's doing to get media coverage' cuz i don't consider that actual 'intelligence'. i'd love to read what you've got for me birdy to show how intelligent she is.

the only attention i've paid to this is this thread since i don't have TV but i've heard that it is all over the news, which once again is just f*cked. hello.....darfur? iraq? g8? jeez.

[Birdy]

The portion of her bank account that doesn't come from her father. She's had a tv show, an album, a book. She's a clothing, jewellery and perfume designer, and a film actress. According to wiki, she earned herself a cool $7 million in 2005. I don't think an idiot rakes in those figures in a year.

Unfortunately she's not a humanitarian, nor does she possess the characteristics of a nobel peace prize winner. But there's more in this world to measure levels of intelligence (whether we morally agree with them or not) and I don't think we should be quite so quick to write Paris off.

[dancingbear]

I don't think an idiot rakes in those figures in a year.

i do.

[MarcO]

Someone gives her $500,000 to attend a party and somehow *she's* the idiot?!?

[bouche]

i just looked a bit on wiki to read her history and try to find anything she's ever done that could be deemed intelligent or humanitarian or anything like an education, but couldn't.

I love how you used wikipedia to find out about someone's intelligence

I just looked you up and found nothing ;)

I had the thought that this whole ordeal is being overblown and cooked up so she can sell the story for huge bucks.

[Birdy]

WHAT AN IDIOT!

[YearsAlongTheSea]

The portion of her bank account that doesn't come from her father. She's had a tv show, an album, a book. She's a clothing, jewellery and perfume designer, and a film actress. According to wiki, she earned herself a cool $7 million in 2005. I don't think an idiot rakes in those figures in a year.

I highly doubt she does much more than put her name on those clothes, jewels and perfume. As for the book and the music, I doubt they're that great and were really her artistic brainchild.....

[hamilton]

Paris Hilton not eating or sleeping: Report

June 09, 2007

Reuters News Agency

LOS ANGELES–Paris Hilton has not eaten or slept since arriving at the medical ward of a Los Angeles jail and is being given psychoactive drugs, celebrity website TMZ.com reported Saturday, citing law enforcement sources.

The socialite and hotel heiress was ordered back to jail Friday after a judge overruled a sheriff's decision to place her under house arrest for psychological problems after she had spent three days of an expected three-week term behind bars.

The 26-year-old "has been crying a lot, praying" and is "extremely withdrawn," TMZ reported.

Hilton was visited by her psychiatrist, Dr. Charles Sophy, for more than two hours Saturday morning. She was being held in a room by herself with a glass door that is guarded at all times, the report said.

Steve Whitmore, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County sheriff, declined to comment on the report. "Anything to do with her medical stuff I can't confirm or deny," he said.

A spokesperson for Hilton could not immediately be reached for comment.

Hilton's early release by Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca sparked national outrage and accusations of preferential treatment because of her celebrity status.

On Saturday, however, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer's order to return her to custody was sparking controversy, with television pundits and others debating whether he had overstepped his bounds in overruling Baca.

Baca has defended his decision, saying that Hilton was under an early-release program established to ease jail overcrowding and that she was serving more time than other inmates in the same low-level category.

Hilton was sentenced to 45 days in jail last month for violating probation in a drunken-driving case by driving on a suspended license.

On Friday she trembled and cried quietly throughout the hearing, then broke into loud sobs when the judge ordered her back into custody.

"Mom, Mom. It's not right," she wailed as she was led out of the courtroom. Her mother, Kathy Hilton, also sobbed.

Link

[bouche]

praying and partying are only 1 letter apart.

[phorbesie]

i don't understand what you're trying to say bouche, but you think it's funny so that's cool hehe

i have no use for those internet tabloid sites, so i didn't want to look anything up on those!

rich doesn't equal smart...that's pretty weird criteria there birdy. anyway other people make all her decisions for her, she said so herself.

I highly doubt she does much more than put her name on those clothes, jewels and perfume. As for the book and the music, I doubt they're that great and were really her artistic brainchild.....

exactly.

Edited June 10, 2007 by Guest

[Birdy]

Paris is in the business of dumb. She markets herself to be a ditz, and it works... multi-millions of dollars works. You're taking a hugely biased media image (in a world where pop culture has gone mad) of this girl and letting it serve as truth. Is that really fair? In a world where stupidity sells at the highest price?

YATS, she wrote every song on her album herself except one. It may not be the record that I go out and buy, but it did debut in the top 10 on billboard.

[Kanada Kev]

Paris is in the business of dumb. She markets herself to be a ditz, and it works... multi-millions of dollars works.

I think it's more along the lines of "her people" marketing her dumb. I highly doubt that she's got the ability to "act" dumb all the time just as a front for her marketing plan.

In a world where stupidity sells at the highest price?

As long as people are buying ...

YATS, she wrote every song on her album herself except one. It may not be the record that I go out and buy, but it did debut in the top 10 on billboard.

Hahahahahah ... seriously, that was funny

In the songwriting community they call it 'Change a word, get a third'. This honestly happens -- singers come in and go, 'I'd rather say baby than darling', and they get a third of the songwriting credit.

For a good commentary on Paris' "credentials" this is a good article:

http://www.stylusmagazine.com/articles/pop_playground/sugar-shock-005-what-has-she-done.htm

Several writers deny Paris authorship in any capacity whatsoever, despite her formal songwriting credits. Sean Fennessey simply lies about her authorship role in his scathing Pitchfork track review of “Turn It Up†(songwriting credits: Jeff Bowden/Paris Hilton/Penelope Magnet/Scott Storch): “Lyrically...I won't waste your time. She didn't write it and you won’t care anyway.†The same attitude is apparent in positive reviews, too. In her Phoenix review proclaiming Paris to be a “musical genius,†Sharon Steel sarcastically refuses Paris’s co-authorship, even when faced with possible documented evidence:

During an MTV special on the making of the album that aired two weeks prior to its release, I was transfixed by a scene that shows Paris hard at work in the studio with Storch. She claims that this is how the songwriting process went: he’d mess around on his keyboard with the beats while she’d grab a pen and write whatever came to mind. Wait a minute. Didn’t she hire someone to do that for her too? The camera pans down to her paper. I try desperately to make out what she’s scrawled on the page. Just as quickly, the camera flashes back to her cleavage. I’d kill for a better look at that notebook—it’s probably just a shopping list for new sex toys.

To further bolster the paradoxical assertion that Paris bought and orchestrated her vanity project but also had no legitimate input in its realization, writers invoke a mythical pop industry “system.†Stylus reviewer Jayson Greene presents his own version of this system in his review of Paris:

As we all know, such pop confections are not constructed by accident. An army of serious-minded professionals with impeccable pop credentials…have been called in and given big checks to make sure Paris passes some sort of pop muster. They have assembled the best record that could be made from the people who don’t mind submitting their talents to the credibility-sucking black hole that is the Paris Hilton cottage industry.

There are those serious professionals again. Of course, as we all really know, most of the artists working with members of this same “army†(more of a cabal, isn’t it?) are very much involved in the songwriting process, and there are lots of accidents: they try out lyrics and riffs and they take chances, even if they do plan and shape their songs carefully. Several performers receive co-author credit (Ashlee Simpson, Lindsay Lohan, the Veronicas, Pink, Paris herself) while others have varying degrees of creative input (like Hilary Duff, who is now working with Major General Kara DioGuardi to write and produce her next album).

The myths and fantasies persist in part because most of these culture commentators don’t know quite where they stand with Paris or Paris. They may not know Paris Hilton’s place in their own perception of the culture they comment on, and they may not know where they stand in the culture, either. I’m not so sure myself (that’s part of why I can’t stop thinking or writing about it): does my relating to Paris Hilton’s album put me closer to her? Do I want to be closer to her? Most commentators aren’t asking why Paris Hilton should or shouldn’t be allowed in “their†culture or in their lives. They don’t question how her music affects their own relationship with whatever culture she represents, or how and why they’ve formed their own Paris-idea in the first place.

These issues are concealed in false ones, in questions just as shallow and phony as Banksy’s. Thoughtful discussion of Paris and anything else related to “the pop system†or any other—which includes everyone from MySpacers to heiresses—is short-circuited and important questions remain unasked. Here are a few I’ve been asking myself: Where do I stand if I stand with Paris? What am I using her for? Why do I care? I’m still trying to answer them. But Paris Hilton, said to be too dumb to understand the meaning of Banksy’s “intervention,†is, among other things, a constant reminder for us to keep thinking, not only about her but ourselves. That's hot.

and, her "album" is getting sued by UB40

Before she reported for jail, Paris Hilton found herself tied to another legal wrangle, only this time it's a copyright lawsuit. Britain's Daily Mail reported Sunday that the copyright owners of UB40's "Kingston Town" have filed a suit alleging that Hilton's "Stars Are Blind" was ripped off from the 1989 track. Hilton had no songwriting credit on the track and wasn't named in the suit. ...

Edited June 10, 2007 by Guest

[dancingbear]

marco....

lots of 'idots' make lots of money.

george bush...idiot.

oil executives...idiots.

stephen harper..idiot.

car comapny execs..idiots.

i'm not saying all these people are dumb. i just dont define smart and idiot in terms of MONETARY value.

as for paris, anyone who has that many young people looking up to her and drives drunk THREE times when I'm sure she could easily afford a cab or helicopter is not very smart. no matter how much people pay her to show up at their party. kapish?

[paisley]

same thing that keeps coming into my mind

if you have the money why not have someone else drive if you've agreed not to drive in court or else you'll go to jail... not eating not sleeping sounds a lot like the tantrum of someone who's really used to getting their own way... or perhaps withdrawl (which a few weeks of won't kill you, though you'll be grumpy)

makes no sense she didn't buy a cheap car then give a friend or one of the neighbours kids or a profession a job driving her around

[bouche]

i don't understand what you're trying to say bouche, but you think it's funny so that's cool hehe

i have no use for those internet tabloid sites, so i didn't want to look anything up on those!

If you're talking about my direct quote "praying and partying are 1 letter apart" take it literally. I noticed there was no 'T' in praying and the rest of the letters were pretty much in alignment. This happened after a couple of morning coffees that sent my mind-a-flowing.

[bouche]

Did she write this song or something?

[Kanada Kev]

pray, party, potty

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/06/10/2007-06-10_poohoo_she_isnt_life_of_the_potty_.html

Poo-hoo, she isn't life of the potty

News learns Paris didn't eat or drink out of fear guards would take pix

BY MICHELLE CARUSO

DAILY NEWS WEST COAST BUREAU

Posted Sunday, June 10th 2007, 4:00 AM

LOS ANGELES - It was apparently the one time she was camera-shy.

Paris Hilton was so terrified guards would snap a cell-phone picture of her on the toilet that she didn't eat or drink for three days, which left her facing a life-threatening collapse, a source told the Daily News. She also was not taking prescribed medication while in jail, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca said.

The stainless steel lavatory in the hotel heiress' 12-foot-by-8-foot cell was in plain view of a large window in the door, which guards could look through 24 hours a day.

"She was absolutely terrified that one of the guards or staffers would get her with the cell-phone cam and it would wind up on the Internet," a Hilton insider said yesterday.

"She didn't eat or drink a single thing for three days because she didn't want to use the toilet. She was in real danger."

Hilton also suffered from "extreme claustrophobia" and began hyperventilating and freaking out.

"She cried the entire time, and that wasn't helping the dehydration," the source said.

Jail medical officials became concerned that severe dehydration and a buildup of waste and toxins in Hilton's body could cause a complete collapse and "even kill her," the source said.

Baca suggested Hilton was on suicide watch last night, saying she would be kept under close scrutiny to ensure "there isn't anything harmful done to herself by herself, which is a great concern to me."

Baca said Friday that Hilton's "psychological problems" were worsened by the fact that she was not getting a "particular medication" she normally takes.

Judge Michael Sauer didn't buy the medical excuse, sending Hilton back to jail on Friday to serve the remainder of her 45-day sentence. She could serve just over two weeks with time off for good behavior.

She spent yesterday heavily sedated in the medical wing of L.A.'s Twin Towers jail, a source close to her told The News.

The Rev. Al Sharpton, who said he was in California this weekend for previously scheduled events, said yesterday he'll meet with the sheriff tomorrow about the larger issues surrounding Hilton's case.

Sharpton told The News he plans to ask about possible discrepancies in how prisoners of different races and economic classes are treated.

"I will present cases to him and ask why these cases didn't warrant the same consideration [as Hilton's]," Sharpton said.

Meanwhile, Hilton's friends in the Hollywood party set were losing no time trying to steal her socialite crown.

"Although her friends are saying supportive things in public, behind her back they're saying she's faking it," said the insider.

"Paris is the queen bee of her clique in Hollywood. ... Now she's not there, there is a lot of jostling for her crown. Nicole Richie is planning parties, Kimberly Stewart is planning parties, Kim Kardashian is planning parties.

"Thank God [Lindsay Lohan] is in rehab."

Hilton's lawyer had been expected to file an appeal.

But in a statement last night, Paris said she would serve her time.

mcaruso@nydailynews.com

With Adam Nichols and Ben Widdicombe in New York

PARIS' STATEMENT

Paris Hilton's statement, released through her attorney Saturday, on her decision not to appeal her jail sentence:

"Today, I told my attorneys not to appeal the judge's decision. While I greatly appreciate the Sheriff's concern for my health and welfare, I intend to serve my time at L.A. County Jail.

"Being in jail is by far the hardest thing I have ever done. During the past several days, I have had a lot of time to think and I believe that I am learning and growing from this experience.

"I have also had time to read the mail from my fans. I very much appreciate all of their good wishes and hope they will keep their letters coming.

"Thank you as well to my family who has always stood by me. I love you and miss you so much!

"I must also say that I was shocked to see all of the attention devoted to the amount of time I would spend in jail for what I had done by the media, public and city officials. I would hope going forward that the public and the media will focus on more important things like the men and women serving our country in Iraq and other places around the world."