I’m not above talking (for just a minute) about Paris Hilton.
I can’t help but just feel a little sorry for her. Imagine you are in jail, then told you can go home, then told, essentially, PSYYYYYYYYCHE!!!! That might be creul and unusual punishment.
And she, herself, isn’t really evil. She’s just a representative of evil. If it were Cheney, then we’d have a different story.
Still — it’s like a month in a studio apartment. Meals brought to your door. If there were access to a decent library, you could actually get a lot accomplished. Imagine how much reading you would do if you were FORCED to stay in a little room all day for a month. Doesn’t really sound that bad, does it?
Assuming that Paris ACTUALLY reads?…if I/we were stuck in a cell for a month (not together) you and I would see it as a vacation from social confines and a chance to catch up on the literary classics we were missing, perhaps pen a meditative memoir or a script or two… an escape from the balancing act and non-stop routine of day in/day out work, friends, shows and loved ones. Paris thrives and survives on social interaction and being in the public eye. She hasn’t read a book since high school I’d guess and doesn’t see it as an oppurtunity. It’s torture. She’ll have a ghost written book, movie options and years of therapy for her month of isolation. I feel bad for her, but she has the money and a personal assistant. Why not hire a driver? She did this to herself and in L.A., if you’re a law enforcement/ DA, the busting of celebrities looks really good on your resume….
You raise a good point, Ralph. . .but the other thing that makes me a feel a little bad for her is that I am SURE that she didn’t think she was doing anything wrong. I’m sure her handlers didn’t explain well enough to her the specifics of how/when she could drive. Ignorance of the law is no excuse and she’s certainly old enough to know better. . .but I’m ready to buy the story that she didn’t set out to specifically test to see if the law really applied to her.
But. . .that said. . .I am only a tiny bit sympathetic. Like everyone else in the world, I do feel a little warm inside when I see pictures of her crying. I just also feel guilty when I do.