Austin360 blogs > TV Blog > Archives > 2007 > June > 28 > Entry
News flash! The ‘new’ Paris is boring!!
I never thought I would ever feel sorry for Larry King, but my heart ached for him last night. That must have been the longest hour of his entire professional life.
The Paris Hilton chit-chat was a royal bust Wednesday night on CNN. The ex-jail bird was wooden, monotonous and about as deep as a puddle.
What does this hard-partying rich girl hope to change about herself after three weeks of reflection in an L.A. jail? Her voice. She doesn’t like that it “goes up” when she’s upset or excited.
Paris professed a new spiritualism, saying she checked out a Bible from the commissary during her incarceration. She told King she’s been religious all her life, goes to Mass and often reads the Bible. When asked her favorite passage, she smiled, stuttered and said she couldn’t think of one.
Anyone looking for “the new Paris” we’ve heard so much about found very much the old Paris — but dressed in a modest outfit and minus the usual array of jewels. She was expressionless most of the time, parroting rehearsed phrases such as “it was scary” and “I did my time and took responsibility.”
Paris has insisted that she is not the dumb blonde we know from “Simple Life” and countless party scenes. She says it’s all an act, and now that she’s a 26-year-old ex-con, “that’s not cute any more.” So she’s changed.
But the Paris we saw on Larry King was dull and more than a little dense. She can’t really think anyone believes she has changed.
All we can hope from last night’s endless hour of droning is that Larry King is feeling relieved today that it’s over. He’s never had to ask so many inane questions (“Lindsay Lohan … what do you think about her?”) in his life. His guest tonight is Colin Powell … he must be blowing kisses at his booking agent.
Permalink | Comments (3) | Post your comment | Categories: News coverage
Comments
By GT
June 28, 2007 2:31 PM | Link to this
PLEASE tell me that no one bought that little act she put on last night on Larry King. She was never a good actress and last night proved it. She is no more changed than the man in the moon. Give her a couple of months and she will be doing "charity work" at the night clubs again.
By austinights
June 28, 2007 12:50 PM | Link to this
Paris might be boring to some, but she is definitely gold - at least to her own lifestyle. Here's a girl who is already rich from simply being a Hilton. But, she has managed to just be herself - even if everyone thinks she's an idiot - and get paid big bucks to do it. That she has Larry King and the rest of the media fighting for their precious photo-op or interview is pretty darn good media savvy. Come on people - our own government put up video cams along the border, so people could watch LIVE online and call Border Patrol when they saw illegals coming in. To Paris I have only one thing to say - hell yeah!
By Harry
June 28, 2007 12:08 PM | Link to this
A little off topic, but have you been hearing KXAN's new commercials? They're new catch phrase slogan is "Austin's News Station." Isn't that channel 24's slogan? pretty funny. two channels, same slogan. Anybody else notice this?