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Post by reception on Aug 6, 2008 5:55:48 GMT -5
Aug 6, 6:42 AM EDT Paris Hilton issues tart rebuttal to McCain ad
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Attention, America: Paris has spoken. Paris Hilton, the blonde, doe-eyed celebrity thrust into the presidential campaign in an ad by Republican candidate John McCain, issued a tart rebuttal Tuesday, albeit in a scantily clad, tongue-in-cheek kind of way.
Last week, McCain launched an ad comparing Democratic rival Barack Obama to Hilton and Britney Spears, suggesting Obama was no more than a celebrity candidate unready to lead the nation.
Hilton initially shied away from the debate over the ad and its effectiveness. But she responded Tuesday with a spoof on the comedy Web site Funny or Die.
"Hey America, I'm Paris Hilton and I'm a celebrity, too. Only I'm not from the olden days and I'm not promising change like that other guy. I'm just hot," Hilton said, speaking as she reclined in a pool chair in a revealing bathing suit and a pair of pumps. "But then that wrinkly, white-haired guy used me in his campaign ad, which I guess means I'm running for president. So thanks for the endorsement white-haired dude."
"I want America to know that I'm, like, totally ready to lead," she said.
She then discusses energy policy, and suggests a hybrid of McCain's offshore oil drilling plan and Obama's incentives for new energy technology.
"Energy crisis solved! I'll see you at the debates," she said,
McCain campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds said Hilton appears to support his candidate's "all of the above" energy solution.
"Paris Hilton might not be as big a celebrity as Barack Obama, but she obviously has a better energy plan," Bounds said.
Hilton's mother, who with her husband donated $4,600 to McCain's campaign earlier in the year, has said McCain's ad is "a complete waste of the country's time and attention at the very moment when millions of people are losing their homes and their jobs."
McCain's ad uses footage of Obama's reception by Germans during a recent trip to Berlin to dismiss him as just another celebrity. Obama's campaign has criticized the ad; McCain has defended it as humorous.
Hilton's rebuttal includes plenty of humor at McCain's expense.
An announcer calls him "the oldest celebrity in the world, like super-old, old enough to remember when dancing was a sin and beer was served in a bucket," and asks, "but is he ready to lead?" Hilton's spoof also intersperses images of McCain and Yoda from Star Wars and the cast of television's "The Golden Girls."
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Post by vinyl on Aug 6, 2008 11:14:41 GMT -5
ROFL. I'm just hot.
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Post by MyLastView on Aug 6, 2008 12:29:28 GMT -5
THE VIDEO IS AMAZING.
I love this woman to death.
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Post by Hefty Hanna on Aug 6, 2008 12:44:03 GMT -5
LMFAO AT HER RESPONSE VIDEO!!!!!
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Post by Nevermind on Aug 6, 2008 15:42:18 GMT -5
LMAO, fucking amazing. You show him Paris!
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Post by reception on Aug 6, 2008 17:14:27 GMT -5
![](http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/startracks/080818/paris_hilton2.jpg) Paris Hilton and boyfriend Benji Madden have their ups and downs Tuesday at Tivoli Gardens amusement park in Copenhagen, Denmark.
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Post by reception on Aug 8, 2008 18:36:54 GMT -5
![](http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/startracks/080818/paris_hilton3.jpg) Paris Hilton shows off her new line of PH Europa handbags Thursday at the Copenhagen International Fashion Fair at the Bella Center in the Danish capital.
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Post by reception on Aug 12, 2008 18:27:10 GMT -5
![](http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/startracks/080825/paris_hilton2.jpg) Paris Hilton is ready to try out a new mode of transportation after leaving sporting goods store Sport Chalet in Los Angeles on Monday.
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Post by nsfb17 on Aug 12, 2008 19:11:43 GMT -5
![](http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/startracks/080818/paris_hilton2.jpg) Paris Hilton and boyfriend Benji Madden have their ups and downs Tuesday at Tivoli Gardens amusement park in Copenhagen, Denmark. She looks really cute there.
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Post by reception on Aug 14, 2008 14:36:12 GMT -5
![](http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/startracks/080825/paris_hilton3.jpg) Paris Hilton has the perfect airport escort in beau Benji Madden, who took the heiress to John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York on Wednesday to catch a flight back to Los Angeles.
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Post by jord on Aug 14, 2008 18:43:29 GMT -5
![](http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/startracks/080818/paris_hilton.jpg) Paris Hilton lets her T-shirt do the talking while arriving in Copenhagen, Denmark, on Monday with beau Benji Madden by her side. T-Shirt must be a product of Gwen. ![8-)](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/cool.png)
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Post by reception on Aug 20, 2008 16:11:41 GMT -5
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Post by reception on Aug 25, 2008 16:44:58 GMT -5
![](http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/startracks/080908/paris_hilton300.jpg) Paris Hilton keeps her cool while debuting her latest business venture – a hair extension headband called The Bandit – during a party Saturday at a private house in Malibu.
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Post by reception on Sept 11, 2008 6:18:00 GMT -5
Sep 10, 4:35 PM EDT `Paris, Not France' reveals smarter side of Hilton
TORONTO (AP) -- Paris Hilton's new reality show, the documentary "Paris, Not France," reveals a not-so-simple life in which the dumb blonde of her TV infamy is scarcely to be found.
Director Adria Petty gained rare access to Hilton and her inner circle, presenting a behind-the-scenes portrait of the privilege, preening and planning that went into creating the Hilton tabloid phenomenon.
From family videos of grade-school-aged Hilton playing with a bunny to brisk marketing meetings at which she and advisers discuss the "Paris" brand, the documentary offers a lively, sympathetic glimpse into the business of being a manufactured celebrity adored by many and despised by many more.
"I really wanted to make a film about her that was not negative but that wasn't stupid, that really explored the voyeurism inherent in her creation as a new media star," said Petty, the 33-year-old daughter of rocker Tom Petty, in an interview at the Toronto International Film Festival on Wednesday, a day after "Paris, Not France" premiered.
"But at the same time, I didn't in any way want to kind of hate on her or do anything that's already been done. When you think about how much has been done about her and how many different vantage points she's been shot from and how many different ways she's been discussed, the only options left were to actually get a little bit more intellectual about it and think a little more about: Why do we watch?"
Petty met Hilton while working as a marketing consultant at Warner Bros. Records, which released Hilton's 2006 pop album. For the film, Hilton agreed to let Petty tag along for a year, sitting in on business and promotional trips, sessions with reporters and photographers, even routine errands.
Hilton already had seen the film but attended the premiere Tuesday night, later having dinner with Petty.
"I think she was really proud of it. She likes the filmmaking and she likes seeing herself in this kind of new way I've shot her. She was stoked with it," Petty said.
The documentary features candid interviews with Hilton, her parents and sister, gossip columnists and cultural observers examining her celebrity and offering insights on the dumb-blonde facade that fronts it. Hilton notes that the airhead image was heavily due to the persona she copped on her reality show "The Simple Life," saying network executives wanted it to be a cross between "`Legally Blonde' and `Green Acres.' They wanted me to be really dumb."
"Paris, Not France" shows a much more self-possessed and well-spoken Hilton. While driving her car, Hilton delivers a long, anguished monologue, discussing her horror over the sex tape with a former boyfriend that found its way on to the Internet. She states that she did not remember filming it, then concludes with her characteristic humor: "I looked gross in that video."
Among the other nuggets revealed in "Paris, Not France":
- Hilton reads a gossip magazine, sharing a laugh about an item over Britney Spears' supposed fears that Hilton might try to steal Kevin Federline away from her.
- A TV interviewer asks Hilton what superpower she would want. Hilton replies, "To fly and be invisible and to disappear."
- Hilton states that she loves to sleep as much as she can, continuing to snooze in bed in the morning while her hair and makeup are done.
- She reveals some of her scary dreams, including one where her teeth fall out and one where her brakes fail while she's driving the steep hills of San Francisco.
- While strolling with her cell phone pressed to her ear, Hilton confesses to the camera, "I pretend to be on the phone all the time so people don't talk to me."
Petty initially found it tough to draw Hilton out. Then she discovered that for Hilton, getting behind the wheel of her car was like entering a confessional.
"It took me a long time to figure it out, because I was like, I can't get a good interview out of this chick. I don't know what to do," Petty said. "Then in the car, it was like this magic moment where here was this articulate, feeling, thinking person who could convey what was on her mind.
"I was like, why is it that it's only in the car? And then I realized, the most-photographed, famous woman in the world is shy. She doesn't feel comfortable speaking in public, where everything she says she's insulted for. So when we're in a private space like her closet with the door closed or the car, she feels comfortable. She just became herself when she got some privacy."
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Post by reception on Sept 14, 2008 14:00:59 GMT -5
![](http://img2.timeinc.net/people/i/2008/startracks/080929/paris_hilton.jpg) A floral-fresh Paris Hilton heads to The Ivy restaurant for lunch Friday.
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Post by Taylor. on Sept 15, 2008 16:27:29 GMT -5
New song called "Reinvent Yourself" leaked..
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Post by MyLastView on Sept 15, 2008 18:33:02 GMT -5
^ It's not her singing.
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Post by calluout on Sept 16, 2008 18:55:24 GMT -5
So that song isnt her? It sounds like her.
And this doco, when is it out? It sounds like another scripted media ploy by her to help change her image, and its been presented like it's real but its the same as the rest.
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Post by Music=Life on Oct 2, 2008 8:38:06 GMT -5
I love hew new song"My BFF". I'm excited for this new CD!
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Post by Active Aggressive on Oct 2, 2008 12:02:38 GMT -5
Her show is a mess. That tranny is something else.
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Post by MyLastView on Oct 2, 2008 17:50:21 GMT -5
Apparently some of the new songs she's recorded are called "Platinum Blonde", "Paris for President", and "Jailhouse Baby". ![:-X](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/lipssealed.png) I think she said it in an interview with KIIS.
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Post by ClevelandRox on Oct 21, 2008 10:08:23 GMT -5
So is she releasing a new album? Or are these songs going to be like Heidi Montag songs and just pop up out of the blue online?
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Post by poplife on Oct 21, 2008 20:59:53 GMT -5
I think Paris' new stuff will just pop up online now.. I can't imagine her releasing another album. Will Warner take another chance since her first one didn't sell all that well?
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Post by Monroe on Oct 21, 2008 21:01:16 GMT -5
I think Paris' new stuff will just pop up online now.. I can't imagine her releasing another album. Will Warner take another chance since her first one didn't sell all that well? Was it expected to. ???
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Post by itsaboutart on Oct 22, 2008 4:23:57 GMT -5
Unfortunately i think they thought people would actually buy her garbage
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Post by MyLastView on Oct 24, 2008 18:22:47 GMT -5
I'm not loving how her music career is turning into a whole slew of parodies and useless junk. I want more of the stuff like what's on Paris, not songs about her fake running for president or how she's a platinum blonde. No thanks.
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Post by vinyl on Oct 26, 2008 8:55:15 GMT -5
So it's premiering today? ![:-X](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/lipssealed.png)
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Post by Abel on Oct 26, 2008 10:52:08 GMT -5
Does anyone know who won that BFF show? ![](http://yoursmiles.org/ssmile/fun/s0244.gif)
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Post by Young Money on Oct 26, 2008 13:46:02 GMT -5
Paris said she is indeed releasing another album.
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