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Tinkerbell is missing, Paris needs help
Pity poor Tinkerbell. Not the lovely sprite of Neverland but the pooch perpetually clutched by Paris Hilton.
The sad, sad news broke yesterday that Paris’ beloved high-fashion Chihuahua disappeared last Wednesday from her luxurious Hollywood Hills home and hasn’t been seen since.
Paris is offering a $5,000 reward — a pittance considering the hotel heiress is worth about a billion bucks. Heck, the pooch’s Louis Vuitton carrying case is worth more than that. So are her pink Chanel coats, sweaters and matching suede sneakers.
And we won’t even speculate about the value of the diamond collar.
Tinkerbell, of course, rose to fame (she already had a fortune) in her mistress’s evenly tanned and toned arms on “The Simple Life.” Despite her pampered existence, the pooch apparently suffered from stress and was seeing a doggie shrink in Beverly Hills. I’m not making this up. Check out a recent riveting expose of Tink.
Los Angeles police are investigating, as you might imagine. Given Tinkerbell’s super-rich status, we, along with L.A.’s finest, suspect this might not be a simple case of doggie-runaway. This could be kidnapping or, heaven forbid, murder-robbery.
To make matters worse, Tinkerbell is unlikely to have natural survival skills. After all, she’s spent her entire life in Paris’s arms. It’s hard to imagine her performing a Lassie-like escape to journey home.
Paris, 23, has not had a happy month. Her home was burglarized and jewelry stolen; she appeared in tabloids with bruises on her arms and lips; she broke up with her boyfriend; and she lost sister Nicky as a roommate when Nicky tied the knot in Las Vegas.
Without Tinkerbell to comfort her, what’s the poor heiress to do? We send our sympathies and hope Tinkerbell is returned to the lap of luxury ASAP.
What we’re missing . . .
I vaguely recall being sick of all the political ads on TV during the spring primaries. But now that we’re in the thick of a very important presidential campaign, I feel abandoned.
I’m trying not to take it personally. It’s a geographical problem. The Republicans figure President Bush has this state sewed up, so they’re not wasting valuable ad dollars here. And the Democrats agree. If John Kerry’s chances in Texas are seriously slim, why spend ad money here?
So we can only read about the barrage of commercials from both camps and occasionally see snippets on the news.
But in battleground states, such as Florida (where I recently visited and became a surprise hurricane correspondent), Bush and Kerry are all over television. They are lovingly filmed in heavenly light with inspiring words and music surrounding them. They look and sound so fabulous that Floridians will want to vote for both of them.
It would be an important public service if someone (hello, PBS?) would produce a special with all the commercials from each presidential candidate and run them in states like ours that have been politically deprived. We do need to see them, if only for amusement.
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