Paris Hilton On Fourth Of July
Written by Major Tom
Filed under: Entertainment News, News & Info
July 5, 2007
4th of July in America and Paris Hilton is in the headlines. How surreal and entirely dramatic the situation is. In this very significant day for Americans, Paris Hilton post a message in her MySpace blog and everyone suddenly listens. You’d wonder what she have to impart to the population and I thought it might just yet another controversial quip about her long-running feuds with other Hollywood teen stars. But it wasn’t. She said that everyone shouldn’t “drink and drive” and to be responsible enough to have a driver. I read further into this news and I was expecting that there’d be a catch to it, like she’s just mocking the Los Angeles traffic authorities. I later realized that she wasn’t being foolhardy this time. And this message is so worthwhile considering that vehicular accidents takes away about 1.2 million deaths worldwide annually according to World Health Organization statistics.
Ms. Paris Hilton did have a very worthwhile message to the public on Independence Day and if many had found this a little unusual, well I do not blame them. I too did found it entirely unexpected, coming from a rich man’s daughter who loves to party all the time and one who had frequent brushes with controversy for her atypical conduct.
Sexymom of the The D-Spot had most recently blogged how she adored Paris Hilton. She had expected her readers to be a little surprised and honestly I felt a little bit like that after reading that particular article by Sexymom.
Despite of it all, Sexymom could just be right for her sympathy to a very young women borne to extraordinary riches and a glittery culture where every bizarre happening could possibly happen, and even be bound to happen anyway, just like the sun going up and going down from the horizon. Ms. Hilton could have been trapped within a swirling way of life that only the unusual thrives and the simple-minded perish—like in a dog-eat-dog world. She might just be exemplifying the cruel world that she lives in and now she’s crying out to the whole world.
Maybe like the news about her “finding God” while being incarcerated for two weeks inside a Los Angeles cell, Ms. Hilton had finally found redemption and realizes that it is really not ideal to live such a self-indulgent lifestyle that in the end, there is no virtue to it and that the only way to go is to have changes—changes for the better.
This time, Ms. Hilton might just mean it and despite that I am not really into her celebrity or a fan of her of some sort, I’d be crossing my fingers for that. She could be a very effective agent for change to our youth—to propel the idea of responsibility in the youth rather than the decadent individual that she had somehow exemplified in the past.
see what influence she has? she didn’t call for it–being in the headlines, i presume, it is really the press people who just like writing about her, featuring her, never letting go of her.
if only she can be true to her words, if she would really change, as promised, won’t she be a girl to emulate by this ever materialistic world? that is why, i am nt giving up on her.
like it or not, paris is here to stay, in the headlines and on tv.
Comment by SexyMom — July 5, 2007 @ 1:31 pm
To Sexymom: That’s what I am thinking that in all these craziness that she got herself in, some kind of good might come out of it and if there is—then we just have to fully maximize and appreciate it instead.
Let us see what happens next—she could be reinventing herself…for the better.
Comment by Major Tom — July 5, 2007 @ 2:39 pm
Other than the X rated video of hers on the internet, but that was uploaded by someone without her consent, and her coviction for DUI, I don’t think Paris is any different from any modern day young socialite. It is just the Media exploiting her image. Now that with the advice of the people around her and she started listening, maybe that infuence of hers will be of benefits to the younger generation that could need some role model.
Drinking and Driving is a problem that won’t go away, even when we already put the offense under the Criminal Code and enforce it without mercy, there are still who can’t understand the consequence until the meet reality. Glad I junked my car a month ago. hehehe…now i get to work on time all the time by bus…
Comment by victor — July 5, 2007 @ 9:29 pm
You should’ve seen that Larry King interview she did after she got out. It was meant to boost her image, but ended up as a PR disaster instead. She was caught lying when she said she found God by reading the bible, but when asked what her favorite chapter was, she couldn’t even mention one. At least she could’ve said that story about Adam and Eve which everyone knows — except her.
That don’t drink and drive message by Paris Hilton is just, well… too plastic.
Comment by snglguy — July 5, 2007 @ 11:12 pm
To vic: In some way you’re right; even I couldn’t really get away with it, to drink and then drive. But I always had been a responsible drinker, just enough to steady the veins.
What’s really dangerous—as it had happened to me once so many years ago—that I was so sleepy and almost got myself harmed driving.
Comment by Major Tom — July 6, 2007 @ 9:57 am
To sngl: I should have seen that coz I’ve been watching out for that, announced a day earlier when Larry did a wonderful interview with the remaining Beatles members. But somehow was too busy to catch it on.
So she was phony then…hummmhn, seems like she is still in her improper ways. But who knows maybe, it’s a good start. She spoke of God in the first place and that’s a mile improvement. I would not have expected that.
Comment by Major Tom — July 6, 2007 @ 10:01 am
My daughter is a ‘moderated’ fan of Paris Hilton. What I mean with ‘moderated’ is that - she admires her grace and fashion sense - just that.
One time, she was so glued on TV watching Paris and Nicole Richie on their reality tv show “Simple Life”. I saw the avid admiration on my daughter’s face. I got worried so I sat beside her. I told her, Paris is okay with her fashion sense and all.
You can emulate her fashion style, if you want, but not her lifestyle.” Well, the smart girl she is - “I know, Ma. I know…” was all she answered. And I rested my case… hehehe.
Comment by rhodora — July 6, 2007 @ 12:32 pm
To Rhodora: I saw one or two episode of “Simple Life” and I thought ms. Hilton was being just OK there, not beyond what’s reasonable and in fact I was a little surprise that she could actually behave in front of the camera….However, she just got lots of bad press and there’s a risk of false emulation as of now.
Comment by Major Tom — July 6, 2007 @ 1:17 pm