Is it just me - or is the whole Paris Hilton prison thing a crock.
 

Just wondering if anyone else feels the same??

Perhaps I am a cynical aussie, but I never really expected Paris to do the full 40 odd days. She gets to keep her hair extensions because they are apparently 'too tightly wound'........rubbish. If it was some junkie chick those extensions woulda been out in a flash. Now i hear she has been released after just 4 days......due to 'medical reasons'........or perhaps withdrawls from the party circuit. What a load of crap.

Does anyone else think this escapade has made a mockery of the US legal system in some small way?

Chalk one up for Edwards' "Two Americas".

I love the press conference where the public affairs officer for the court was basically saying "Yeah, we're pretty pissed about it too, but the sheriff might get away with it unless someone please presses new charges."

I wonder if the same "medical reasons" will stop her going out & partying the day after she's free from "Mansion Detention"?

...sounds like bullshit, Barry.

I'm very concerned. I heard she will have to wear an ankle bracelet.

What if she tans unevenly or develops a callous?

I doubt she'll be able to accessorise with those bracelettes.

A big joke. It was a bit tough for the media though. Report on the first substantial rain in 2 yrs....or....Paris Hilton in prison. Hmmm...what a choice.

I ask you,

WHO GIVES A FUCK ABOUT SOME LITTLE FUCKING PRINCESS WHO GOT CAUGHT BEING A FUCKWIT???

Obviously some people because they report what will give them the highest ratings. The news isn't news, its gossip.

you, obviously. You can't leave a Princess alone. jealous?

Paris Hilton is hot, in a Anorexia kind of way.

Jesus, give it up already! I am not on anyone's side and I have enjoyed both your and Aliantha's posts in the past, but dragging the entire Cellar into your personal war with her is just ridiculous. Are you done yet? I'm sure this will get me called some choice names too, but thankfully, this is teh interwebz and words can't hurt me, either.

Damn, I was planning on going to CA, committing a crime, and being incarcerated with Paris. I wanted to make her my bitch.

The best laid plans of mice and men. Puh.

Nice try, but she had her own cell in the celebrity wing.

I could be a celebrity. Don't look at me like I'm not a celebrity! :p

Why would anyone want to be a celebrity? Sure, being wealthy would be just fine, but fame? fuck it.

I know. It's been a tough cross to bear, believe me.

I do it for my people.

Quitely wealthy is much easier. Screw the fame bit.

True dat. Having to wear sun glasses night and day or be blinded by the photographers. Heaven help you if you ever pick your nose or trip on something. Is it any wonder these people get a distorted view of there own importance?

Hey guys, I didn't CHOOSE this. It's an accident of birth. Believe me, I would love to be ordinary.:lol:

Hopefully she'll go back: http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/0....ap/index.html

Fame is actually very unpleasant, but you have to work at it. Most working actors just live a normal life most of the time, except for a month or so just as a movie or new show breaks. People in Hollywood leave them alone, it is just when they leave LA and get noticed when things get odd. Most know how to wear things to subtly change their appearance to most but their hard-core fans. It is not hard to do.
To be truly famous, you have to court the nutty press and usually pay someone to do it for you full-time.
Only truly insane people do that. I have been around it, in it, for a while. It was not fun for me... I cannot imagine being the one generating the nuttiness and people acting like children with lobotomies, much less choosing to have that around.
Think about it, DeNero is famous... but you don't see him in People or the really stupid mags going to the grocery store or changing diapers at the beach... why?
Because he does not want to be in them, so he does not go to the places where they hang-out, hang-out with the people who end-up in them, call the photographers to tell them where he will be (yes, even the ones who sue them, spit on them, yell a them, etc, do this... it is a game they all play).
He does not want it, so they leave him alone.
It is all an opera you are watching, the whole thing is staged. Other stars will just walk around the whole thing on the way to the supermarket and not one photographer will take their picture. It is hilarious.
Paris is not famous for no reason, she is on one of the top rated show on television and has two fashion lines, she is not stupid, it is an act... think about it.
I lived in that world... it is like booking a package deal once you get to a certain level "what kind of star do you want to be if you get there".
VERY FEW want to be famous, it is very risky and takes a LOT out of you.
Plus, there is that whole, you-have-to-be-insane factor.
No thanks.

sorry, but she is stupid and ignorant, although she may be clever and media savvy.

Did you read that deposition transcript?

honestly as shitty as it is to say, i don't blame her. If i was wealthy, and lived in a society where I could just do whatever the fuck I wanted and throw money at problems to make them go away, I would probaby take advantage of it myself.

Apparently she is going back....not quietly either.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/0....ap/index.html

Yea, crying for mommy...that's HOT!
http://www.calm-your-screaming-baby....rying-baby.jpg

RK - it's tougher in the UK. Possibly because we're so much smaller geographically, so everything is concentrated in a way it couldn't be in the US. Genuine working actors are regulary "papped" doing something as ordinary as walking down the street - and not necessarily just those that court publicity or have a new film/ show/ album to promote. If De Niro was in London he would be papped, trust me.

Our press are considered the most disrespectful in the world by many celebrities (this is what I understand from interviews anyway) - a fact that gives me a little hope when we are judged fascist - at least we have a press that are willing to bite the hand that increases circulation :)

I know this isn't what you were referring to, but thought it worth sharing. In agreement, I am aware that the majority of those in the magazines and papers week-in, week-out do court it. My friend works on the off camera side of film & TV and although I have only anecdotal evidence of that life I have heard enough to know it's courted.

Re the OT - I'm behind the times on this now - last I heard she was 90 mins late for her court appearance. Throw the damned book at her - this is reflecting very badly on world opinion of the American justice system. I've already corrected one typical-bloody-Americans comment today.

I would mace UK photogs. I've heard how they act from people of my level (unknowns working on stuff with known people).
The idea that people do not have a right to privacy is stupid, there is no other word for it.
I was working on an invention for a while that would make it VERY difficult for someone to take your photo. A hand-held light, not going to be more specific.
I need to start on that again or sell the idea to someone who wants to take it to the next level.
Paparazzi does not help or hamper circulation for films, that is a myth.

That would land you in court AND ensure you were followed any time you went out. There's a singer called Jay Kay (Jamiroquoi) who has very little patience with paps and they delight in taunting him to get photos of him raging and attacking cameras. I've heard from someone who was there at one such photo opportunity - I now appreciate the pictures do not tell the whole story.

No - don't say any more and DO do it. Non-celeb actors would eat it up and it would sell like crazy (until the paps got around it, as they inevitably would), It'd certainly be interesting to see who didn't use it...

she should have just hired a driver during her probationary period. She can afford it, and it would have been the smartthing to do.

I thought about that, Cloud. You know, she grew up doing what she wanted any time she wanted, but probably had nannies and shit who had to take her everywhere. As dumb as it is, that is why the Paris's and the Lindsey's don't hire drivers.

Dumping a bag of marbles, super-soaker perhaps?

She needs a Golden Girdle.

Paris back in jail
 

Well, she's back. They hauled her before the same sentencing judge and he's ordered her back to jail. By most accounts she did not take it well.

You know, maybe they should make her the 4th Girl Next Door and let Hef straighten her out. I mean, they're annoying, but you don't see them doing anything stupid in public. Hef protects the brand.

The paris hilton situation just shows how fucked up America is and how unjust our society is and how far we still have to go. There is nothing wrong with her bitch ass except she is scarred and she should be. i think they should treat her like any other offenders they pick up from the streets and throw in jail. You cant feel sorry for her at all and it was funny cuz on MSNBC or somtin they said that she was going to throw a party the same day she got sent back to jail. Theres just a lot wrong with the whole situation and i hope people care more about shit now.

You know, I have to wonder if the "unspecified medical condition" isn't addiction of some kind. Detox can certainly make you pretty sick. It would also explain her exaggerated response to being sent back (but then again, being a spoiled rotten brat also explains that, so take your pick...).

Yeah, i wondered if it was some cold turkey type thing......but perhaps it's just more of an 'i want my mummy' thing.

I read in the paper on sunday morning that she did not eat or drink for the whole three days as she was scared that one of the guards was going to take a picture of her on the can.........that would suck.

Well, considering some tabloid would probably pay more than any of the guards could make in two years for a picture like that, she might be right.

Envy, it is about envy.
That people care enough about this to watch traffic court in L.A. about some chick they don't know shows you... envy.
It is not about justice or people would be up in arms about their local politics and there would be threads and news coverage about all the white collar crime in the world... no... it is about being envious about Paris, nothing more.

Do you think all schadenfreude is envy, rkz?

On a separate note, just imagine for one moment the entirely different shitstorm we would be seeing if Paris were black.

it's not justenvy that makes us avidly follow the lives of celebrities. There are lighter emotions there, including hope and the mere desire to be entertained, to think about some one else's life, the good and the bad.

from here

*chokes*

Meh. The same opinion has been stated about taxes on here - if you tax the rich it means they won't strive to create wealth (which they apparently spread around), jobs or charitable foundations.

Coming from a socialist fascist state I can't say I agree.

It's a parody. Hard to tell these days, I know.

NO! IT'S NOT JUST YOU! IT'S A CROCK!

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sorry, for shouting, but I've been wanting to say that since the thread opened and just had to get it off my chest. :)

well thank fuck for that!

*gives cloud a high five and buys her a beer*

Thanks. I feel so much better now!