Nagging Questions...

[acroyear]

Who or what the hell is a "Paris Hilton"?

'cause I'm pretty sure its not a hotel...

I've been getting spams for the "Paris Hilton Video", and I've at least figured out its not a promotional tape for a French vacation spot.

Comments

[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

She's the heiress to the hotel fortune. In addition to wearing lots of expensive jewelry and slutty clothes, she and her sister are going to be in a new reality show where they wind up doing ordinary people jobs, just to show how weirded out there are by doing the demeaning things that other people do to make an honest living: artificially inseminating cows, wearing foam hot dog suits for a fast-food joint, that sort of thing.

It's bad enough that people are obscenely rich and rub in it people's faces, but now they have to be famous, on TV and get paid even more for it, while simultaneously (in effect) mocking people who have to work for a living. Sort of like the TV programmers' equivalent of the Wall Street Journal editorial page editors calling people who are poor "Lucky duckies" because they don't make enough money to pay taxes (while living week-to-week on skimpy paychecks and having to scrape to get their kids Xmas presents).

Cue Nero's fiddle.

[wilhelmina-d.livejournal.com]

Amen. You managed to put into words what I'd been feeling about this show.