# Rolling Stone Article on Paris Hilton **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 26, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339 "2003-11-26T06:27:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 6:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/1 "2003-11-26T06:27:40Z")
[Vapid be thy name.](http://www.rollingstone.com/features/featuregen.asp?pid=2156) Not exactly the most indepth article, but certainly not one to change the estimation of Paris as a cheap slut (Yes, I know she’s worth a billion plus, but, well, just read it). ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 7:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/2 "2003-11-26T07:34:43Z")
Will the $30 million inheritence be the only assets she has, other than what she gets for TV and movie appearances? If so, I see her burning through that pretty quickly. My bet is once that starts happening, she’ll marry someone richer than her, divorce a year later and live comfortably off alimony for the rest of her life. ---
**Author:** ![Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@Boo\_Boo\_Foo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boo_Boo_Foo)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/3 "2003-11-26T07:53:42Z")
This is no shit my friend, but honestly, I got to about the 3/5ths mark in that interview and simply couldn’t stomach it anymore. I got to thinking about all those poor bastards in Iraq dodging RPG’s on a daily basis, all the poor souls in Turkey and Israel getting killed lately just while queuing up to buy a pizza, and then I went back to reading the article, and listening to what Paris Hilton had to say on what was important in life. You know what I thought after pondering all that? It was like reading a High School Cafeteria popularity contest that never ended - where the contestants were grownups in age only - but were condemned to live a life of total, irrevocable self-aborption. I had nothing but disdain for such idiots at high school. That Paris Hilton and her ilk are so wealthy and twit-like that they can keep carrying it on for years afterwards doesn’t change my perception of the syndrome one little bit. My mind keeps going back to the poor bastards in shitty warzones the world over who are sent there by forces beyond their control. ---
**Author:** ![Chavardz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/91b2a8/32.png) [@Chavardz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chavardz)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 8:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/4 "2003-11-26T08:20:09Z")
The poor thing, caught on video. The children, won’t someone please think of the children? She’s an adolescent in it’s fullest sense. The word comes from the latin adolecer which means lacking… she lacks a lot of things. ---
**Author:** ![Rashak\_Mani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rashak\_Mani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rashak_Mani)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 11:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/5 "2003-11-26T11:47:45Z")
It’s wierd being well known… but not being in fact anything special. She could survive as a second tier porn star thou… not bad that video. Modeling and marketing are what are left for her. ``` Otherwise I am with what Boo Boo Foo said... its sad. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/6 "2003-11-26T13:43:12Z")
I say: Mandy Moore! Smart, beautiful, tall, fine voice, decent actor. ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 2:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/7 "2003-11-26T14:23:51Z")
My first thought- beyond what a vapid, shallow, talentless, clueless moron she seems to be - was the same as Sublight. $30 million doesn’t seem like that much really. Granted, I’d take it, but I see her blowing through that it 10-15 years. Tara Reid isn’t much better. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/8 "2003-11-26T14:27:26Z")
Paris Hilton is the worst example I can think of a manufactured celebrity–and rags like Rolling Stone and People and whoever keep the ball rolling by treating her as if she’s a REAL celebrity (whatever THAT means). ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/9 "2003-11-26T14:58:10Z")
OK, I _like_ the Hilton Sisters. We need our sparkly, empty, silly celebutantes; they’re like the jimmies on the cupcake of life. They _are_ very raw material, though. I hope someone sends them to a School for Scandal, so they can become the Gabors of the New Millennium. ---
**Author:** ![Jonathan\_Chance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jonathan_chance/32/701_2.png) [@Jonathan\_Chance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jonathan_Chance)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/10 "2003-11-26T15:04:51Z")
Yet again I realize why I carry this sad, unrequited torch for you, Eve. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/11 "2003-11-26T15:31:32Z")
The Hilton Sisters will party like rock stars for a few years and then daddy will sit them down and tell them who they’re to marry. The millions must go on. ---
**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/12 "2003-11-26T15:40:40Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Eve \* > \*\*They _are_ very raw material, though. I hope someone sends them to a School for Scandal, so they can become the Gabors of the New Millennium. \*\* Zsa Zsa’s daughter would be Paris Hilton’s… aunt? Great-aunt? (As memory serves she received a TINY amount of the Hilton estate- something like $100,000 out of a billion dollar fortune.) Did Liz Taylor have any Hilton spawn? ---
**Author:** ![Wyld\_Stallyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8dc957/32.png) [@Wyld\_Stallyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wyld_Stallyn)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/13 "2003-11-26T16:46:19Z")
I’m still sticking by my prior assertion that “Socialite” is the greatest job in the world. All it is in partyin’ and scroggin’, really. And it’s even better if it’s done by spending money you did absolutely nothing to deserve. In any case (including, of course, this one), I am a huge Hilton sisters fan in a testosterone sense; and also, aren’t their lives akin to what would be considered “American Royalty”? I don’t think they behave any worse than any historical Royal scions. I mean, what went down on that video wasn’t all that morally reprehensible (compared to some of the stuff documented on 60 minutes this past sunday), it’s just unfortunate that it got out. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/14 "2003-11-26T17:42:29Z")
Didn’t really think much of her before, but I think even less of her after reading that. * * * Never kiss an animal that can lick its own butt. ---
**Author:** ![vibrotronica](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/a9a28c/32.png) [@vibrotronica](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vibrotronica)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/15 "2003-11-26T18:54:36Z")
must…destroy… ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/16 "2003-11-26T19:41:38Z")
Want Justice? Picture Paris Hilton at age 50, still trying to play the same partying socialite game when she’s too old and has had more men through her doors than the…Paris Hilton. By then she’ll probably bear a striking resemblance to Micheal Jackson, having had a lot of plastic surgery to try to stay looking young. Muahaha! ---
**Author:** ![Sofa\_King](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/58956e/32.png) [@Sofa\_King](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sofa_King)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/17 "2003-11-26T20:28:10Z")
Having wasted several years of my life (and made a couple of pornos) with a vapid blonde heiress, this chick sends chills down my spine. I’ve seen this tragedy-in-the-making first hand. I think it’s best to view Paris Hilton with a certain amount of pity, because the only three things she has are sex appeal, money, and celebrity, and there’s a damned good chance she’s not bright enough to be able to keep any of those things. Beautiful women are always targets for exploitation, but beautiful _rich_ women attract the very finest grifters on the planet–I’ve seen it personally. There is a good chance that from this moment forward this woman will be fighting simply to keep as much of what she has now as she can. I feel sorry for her, even though she’s going to hurt a lot of people on her way down. ---
**Author:** ![Tuckerfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@Tuckerfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuckerfan)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/18 "2003-11-26T23:03:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Wyld Stallyn \* > \*\*I’m still sticking by my prior assertion that “Socialite” is the greatest job in the world. All it is in partyin’ and scroggin’, really. And it’s even better if it’s done by spending money you did absolutely nothing to deserve. > > In any case (including, of course, this one), I am a huge Hilton sisters fan in a testosterone sense; and also, aren’t their lives akin to what would be considered “American Royalty”? I don’t think they behave any worse than any historical Royal scions. I mean, what went down on that video wasn’t all that morally reprehensible (compared to some of the stuff documented on 60 minutes this past sunday), it’s just unfortunate that it got out. \*\* Seeing as how this is about the **only** message board to mention PH and the video of doom and **not** be spammed with links to sites pimping her upcoming TV show, I’d say that it was no accident it got released. Whomever is her manager (and no doubt he’s skimming off as much of her earnings as he can) realized that the video would be the perfect vehicle to create buzz for her new show. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/19 "2003-11-26T23:40:11Z")
Have I missed something, or are ALL the reasons Paris Hilton is famous NEGATIVE reasons? Does she have any _fans_? people who admire her? or are we all just standing by in perplexed horror? ---
**Author:** ![Llama\_Llogophile](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@Llama\_Llogophile](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Llama_Llogophile)\ **Post date:** [November 27, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339/20 "2003-11-27T00:05:17Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Sofa King \* > \*\*Having wasted several years of my life (and made a couple of pornos) with a vapid blonde heiress, this chick sends chills down my spine. I’ve seen this tragedy-in-the-making first hand. > \*\* OK, you’ve got to expand on that. This sounds like a story I want to hear! [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stone-article-on-paris-hilton/215339.md?page=2)