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October 17, 2004

Sheesh! The Sex is Least Embarassing Part of Paris Hilton's New Videotapes

I can't imagine such behavoir from Paris Hilton:

October 14, 2004 -- HOLLYWOOD oil heir Brandon Davis just poured gasoline on the Paris Hilton N-word furor, claiming that Hilton regularly uses the racial slur as well as slurs against other minorities.
Davis, an old friend of Hilton who had a falling out with her this year, came forward after it was reported that Hilton used the N-word in a scene caught on videotape. Hilton later issued a statement saying, "Anyone who knows me knows that this is not me. I love everybody and am not a person who discriminates against anyone — ever."

But Davis tells this week's National Enquirer: "Not true. She was forever using the 'N-word.' I told her not to use it. It was offensive. But she just laughed. She is a racist, plus an idiot. Every black person she referred to was a 'n- - - - -.' "

Davis, the grandson of recently deceased oil billionaire and movie mogul Marvin Davis and boyfriend of "O.C." starlet Mischa Barton, continued, "She uses the word all the time, and I've known her all of her life. It's 'n- - - - - this' and 'n- - - - - that.' She's a disgrace. She is a racist!

"She puts down Jews and other minorities, too. And I'm Jewish. I found it depressing . . . I finally had enough of her attitude six months ago, and I finished with her. I don't want anything to do with her. I don't need anything from her. She is no longer my friend. She's just not a nice person."

True? False? Who knows. Who cares.

posted by Ace at 07:55 PM

Comments

Use of Paris Hilton's apparent favorite word does not make one a racist. It's just a word, for crying out loud. Contrariwise, I know several people that I'd assert are anti-black racists who'd never use the word.

What its use does indicate, unambiguously, is that the user is an insensitive lout. Rather like lighting farts in public, it causes polite folk to raise an eyebrow and head elsewhere.

Paris Hilton has done nothing that I've seen so far to indicate the intellect required for holding any complex view, racism included. She's a dipshit, in other words, and should simply be treated as such. Who really cares about whatever childish ideas she might have? This sounds like the public end of a jilted lover tale from Davis.

Like Ace says: "True? False? Who knows. Who cares."

Posted by: Patton on October 17, 2004 08:38 PM

Wow. I haven't felt this betrayed since Dave Chapelle used the N-word.

Oh, wait, right-- that's different.

I get so confused.

Cheers,
Dave

Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge on October 17, 2004 08:45 PM

Ok, so we have an airhead racist who gets attention solely due to her name and sexual prowness on lame-o video that is available first on USENET.

Yawn - send complaints to www.likeigiveafuck.com

Posted by: Karl on October 17, 2004 08:48 PM

Ace--

Different subject, just an FYI on that story making the news about Zarqawi being in contact with Bin Laden, and how he's OBL's number one fan (from beyond the grave, like Elvis worship).

Zarqawi was always a member of Al Qaeda, but now he makes it clear that he really, really is a member of our favorite international terrorist union.

So, taking the man at his word, this now means that:
1. Zarqawi is clearly a member of Al Qaeda.
2. Zarqawi and his followers operate in Iraq.
3. Defeating Zarqawi and his followers in Iraq is now part of the war against Al Qaeda.

Given how Senator Kerry has pledged, if elected, to continue the fight against Al Qaeda, does this mean John Kerry plans to win the war in Iraq? Ya know, in order to defeat Al Qaeda?

Or is the war in Iraq still a diversion?

Just asking.

Cheers,
Dave

Posted by: Dave at Garfield Ridge on October 17, 2004 08:56 PM

Use of Paris Hilton's apparent favorite word does not make one a racist.

Not only that, but is being a "racist" really such a horrible thing? Sure it's dumb and unenlightened, but being dumb and unenlightened isn't illegal.

Posted by: Deji Pachi on October 17, 2004 09:55 PM

Of course it's not illegal, but YES, VIRGINIA, being a racist is still a horrible thing.

Posted by: Sortelli on October 17, 2004 11:57 PM

It certainly gives more strength to my prediction that her future lies in a rusty mobile home strewn with empty Jack Daniels bottles.

Posted by: Andrea Harris on October 18, 2004 12:38 AM

Isn't her best friend and co-star Nicole Ritchie, daughter of Lionel Ritchie? Yes, she's adopted, but she claims her real parents were still black.

I know the whole "but some of my friends are" thing is cliche, but its possible they could have been throwing around slang and she failed to see the limits in a Teresa-like manner.

Posted by: Lollia on October 18, 2004 01:02 AM

I think it lowers this site posting this kind of gossip from ex-lovers.

Posted by: susan on October 18, 2004 01:23 AM

Karl -

What is your email account at likeigiveafuck.com?

You didn't specify a link. Here's one: www.likeigiveafuck.com

Are you pimping for datapimp?

- Rich

PS One should NEVER assume that a domain name isn't taken. OTOH, it looks like an interesting email hosting company.

Posted by: Rich on October 18, 2004 02:04 AM

Guess the Kabbalah didn't help lol

Posted by: jeff on October 18, 2004 05:45 PM

"Who knows. Who cares."

Exactly right.

Posted by: physics geek on October 19, 2004 08:29 AM

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Dumas picked four names of real musketeers out of a history book, D'Artagnan, Athos, Aramis, and Porthos. So there was an actual D'Artagnan, though he made most of the story up. (Or, you know, all of it.)*

Charles de Batz de Castelmore, known as d'Artagnan, the famous musketeer of Kings Louis XIII and Louis XIV, spent his life in the service of the French crown.
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A commenter asked which should be read first, The Hobbit of LOTR?
Easy, no question -- read The Hobbit first. It's actually the start of the story and comes first chronologically. It sets up some major characters and major pieces in play in LOTR.
Also, the Hobbit is Beginner-Friendly, which LOTR isn't. The Hobbit really is a delightful book, and a fast read. It's chatty, it's casual, it's exciting, and it's funny. In that dry cheeky British humor way. I love that the narrator is constantly making little asides and commentary, like he's just sitting next to you telling you this story as it occurs to him.
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I noticed a continuity problem. Maybe. Now, as of the time of The Hobbit, it was unknown that this magic ring was in fact a Ring of Power, and it was doubly unknown that it was the Ring of Power, the Master Ring that controlled the others.
But the narrator -- who we will learn in LOTR was none of than Bilbo himself, who wrote the book as "There and Back Again" -- says this about Gollum's ring:
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In another passage, the ring is identified as a "ring of power."
I don't know, I always thought there was a distinction between mere magic rings and the Rings of Power created by Sauron. But this suggests that Bilbo knew this was a ring of power created by Sauron.
Now I don't remember when Bilbo wrote the Hobbit. In the movie, he shows Frodo the book in Rivendell, and I guess he wrote it after he left the Shire. I guess he might have added in the part about the ring being a ring of power created by "the Master" after Gandalf appraised him of his research into the ring.
I never noticed this before. I know Tolkien re-wrote this chapter while he was writing LOTR to make the ring important from the start. And also to make Gollum more sinister and evil, and also to remove the part where Gollum actually offers Bilbo the ring as a "present" -- Bilbo had already found it on his own, but Gollum was wiling to give it away, which obviously is not something the rewritten Gollum would ever do.
But I had no memory of the ring being suggested to be The Ring so early in the tale.

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