Paris Hilton

Just as things were starting to look really bleak for Britney Spears (even the AP was drawing up her obit), a savior came down from on high to put the world’s fears at rest—once and for all.

“I think everything's going to be OK,” Paris Hilton said of Ms. Spears.

Ms. Hilton, who spent last weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, sent the singer some saving graces in the form of good old fashioned spin. “She's such a sweet girl when I'm alone with her; she's a completely different person than she's made out to be,” Ms. Hilton, 26, told Us whilst in the majestic climes of Utah's Rocky-Mountain high. But she didn’t stop there. It seems Ms. Hilton really cherishes her friendship with Ms. Spears, 26. “And I love her; I think she's very sweet and has a big heart. She's amazing,” she said, adding: “I just want her to be happy.”

On Friday, Jan. 18, Paris Hilton hosted a private dinner party for her film The Hottie and the Nottie at the Turning Leaf Lounge, one of many venues along Main Street that had been rented and revamped by Hollywood party planners. Across the street, a quaint sports bar called Doolan’s bore a temporary new maroon awning emblazoned with the word Stereo, after the New York nightclub.

Inside the party, where a giant wine bottle hung from the wall, Ms. Hilton was meeting a few select members of the press.  read more »

Last night I had my one night out experiencing the craziness that is Main Street in Park City. The entire slushy street was filled with people -- think Times Square at rush hour -- lining up outside of various parties. As my group approached the after-party sponsored by Hypnotiq for Be Kind Rewind, directed by Michel Gondry and starring Jack Black, a mob scene broke out on the sidewalk a few doors down. Who could it be? Hysteria grew, camera phones flashed. The answer? Ms. Paris Hilton. "I saw your tape, Paris!" one hopeful youngster cried out.  read more »

Paris Hilton once said: “All you have to do in life is go out with your friends, party hard and look twice as good [as the woman next to you.]” But according to an article in today’s Times, it’s now far more complicated. A new social era has dawned, one in which first impressions are often made in a digital context.

Facebook, anyone?

For most members of the behemoth online networking community, high time for silly, drunken or even unattractive profile pictures ends sometime around college graduation. Hitting the mean streets of adulthood can be brutal, after all, and putting your best face forward can—for better or worse—prove rewarding both socially and professionally.  read more »

Whoa! It seems the Style staff at the Times are wholly unimpressed with the way things turned out in 2007—a year they already deemed a disaster in fashion. Yesterday’s paper featured an article proclaiming 2007 the year when an overwhelming number of celebrity careers hit the skids.

To be sure, over the last 12 months we witnessed—mouth often agape, eyes yet wider—some doozeys coming out of Celebrityville. Specifically, the Times points to the following Hollywood hiccups: Britney Spears lost her mind, hair and much of her credibility; Donald Trump and Rosie O’Donnell waged war over the airwaves; Lindsay Lohan was arrested and sent to rehab; Paris Hilton went to prison; Don Imus spat racist slurs and was fired; Anna Nicole Smith died after eating lots of pills; David Hasselhoff fell from basking in Baywatch glory to drunken bathroom embarrassment; Jamie Lynn Spears, 16, got knocked up; and, of course, 2007 was the year when Alec Baldwin left his daughter that scary, violent voicemail heard ‘round the world.  read more »

What better way to lighten the Monday load than with a little celebrity lifestyle coaching from Patrick Wanis, PhD? He’s just miraculously survived an invasion of legion New Yorkers in town for Art Basel Miami. Despite all that distraction, he offered up a gargantuan platter of super-chewy goss. It’s The Top Ten Celebrity Meltdowns of 2007!

We’ve included his list, which Mr. Wanis released only to The Daily Transom, but we decided to focus first on El Numero Uno: the biggest celebrity train wreck of the year—at least in Mr. Wanis’ view. And you’ll likely never guess who it is. (Hint: It’s not Britney Spears. It’s not Lindsay Lohan. And it sure ain’t Paris Hilton.)  read more »

As it happens, Paris Hilton’s presence at Art Basel last weekend really did boggle more than a few minds. One guest at a party held on Saturday night at Casa Casuarina, the former Versace Mansion on Miami Beach’s Ocean Drive, told The Daily Transom that she was acting rather strangely at the affair.

“The interesting thing is just how insecure and socially inept she is,” the eyewitness told us after the party. “She walked around the garden most of the night pretending she was speaking to someone on her cell phone.” Apparently, Ms. Hilton, 26, barely put her bejeweled Sidekick down the entire evening, even when she was quasi-mingling with her fellow partygoers. Our source added that the hotel-chain heiress was trailed all evening by “a security guard and some weird guy in a strange Halloween-style hat.”  read more »

Barbara Walters is sick and tired of tabloid journalism. Even though the venerable co-host of The View has been criticized, especially over the last few years, for conducting “soft” interviews with people like Michael Jackson and Monica Lewinsky, she wants to put an end to it here and now. Acknowledging that her stint on 20/20 may have actually spawned the current, frenzied climate of paparazzi-driven celebrity journalism, Ms. Walters said: “We began to do more and more celebrities and we were criticized,” she continued, “And now ... every program does it." But when her annual The 10 Most Fascinating People airs tonight on ABC, the matronly journalist will reportedly look beyond messy stars like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton. “I am not going after the tabloid stuff, I don’t do it,” Ms. Walters, 78, said, before adding that she wants no part in the “week in, week out, competition for getting the next name, the next person out of rehab.” Instead of Lindsay Lohan, her viewers can expect to see Bill Clinton, Hugo Chavez, two founders of MySpace and Don Imus.

What’s that sweet odor, you ask? It’s the smell of Paris Hilton’s new fragrance, called “Can Can Paris Hilton,” which she unleashed yesterday at Macy’s in Garden City, New York. Wearing a bubblegum pink dress and a Mikimoto store worth of pearls, Ms. Hilton stood in front of a massive poster depicting a somewhat eerie likeness of the 26-year-old heiress. And apparently Ms. Hilton can’t can’t stick to the trail-mix-and-water lifestyle she touted, new-age spiritual advice books in hand, after she was released from prison last June. According to one eyewitness, Ms. Hilton “was up partying until 5AM on Monday and looked totally rested yesterday at the unveiling.”

Paris Hilton Launches Can Can [Hollyscoop]

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ERICA: I spoke with my lovely contact at Carolina Herrera the other day and apparently my dress is in. This is normally exciting news for a bride-to-be, but for me, it kicks the weight loss pressure into super duper high gear.

"OOOOH, your dress!" squealed my friend Liz. "Let's go see it." she said to me after I revealed this damning information to her on the phone.  read more »

No thanks.

• Why should Brooklyn get all the gargantuan $1 billion developments? The City Council has approved plans for Long Island City's Silvercup Studios. The name says it all: 2.7 million square feet of television and film fun, 665,000 square feet for commercial space, plus 1,000 units of housing. And a roof terrace for the grateful Queens public. (Crain's)
• Cute little Ann Curry is being sued by her neighbors on West 71st--though technically she hasn't even moved to the block yet. It usually takes us years to alienate those in our immediate proximity, though to be fair we've rarely done home construction which forces out 25-year tenants nearby. (Also we usually move into our $2.9 million townhouses in less than 32 months.) (NY Daily News)
• Why the enormous photograph of Paris Hilton in a Post commercial real estate column? Because a non-profit named after Ms. Hilton's ex-boyfriend's grandfather has bought the 22nd floor at 645 Madison. Equally bewildering: the Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation paid $105 per foot. (NY Post)
• Frank Bruni gets nostalgic for the simpler times, when Dad--or any gentleman--could provide guests a price-free menu when hosting at a restaurant. "Giving her a menu that didn't show how much the lobster cost was considered a laudable act of chivalry," Mr. Bruni explains. A hex on "women's liberation"! A hex on The Four Seasons and its liberal sensibilities! (NY Times)
• The riveting milkshake saga continues: The Friends of Dag Hammarskjold Park have failed (at least for now) in their effort to stop a milkshake vendor from setting up shop in the pretty D.H. Plaza. Those shakes are so tasty, yet so controversial. (NY Sun)
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You know the drill. Every year it starts a little bit early: the press releases, the articles, the low level buzz—mostly amid the publicists who write the press releases and the reporters who dutifully recap them. Yes, it's Time's 'Person of Year' time again, and if the consensus mongers are to be believed, this year's 'winner' might be that bitch who's been ruining our lives since the new year.

No, not Paris Hilton: 'Mother Nature.'

But do we really want Mother Nature to win? So many past 'Person of the Year' recipients take an immediate turn south as soon as they win: What if the same fate befalls Mother Nature?

We'll selectively recap the last 78 years, accentuating the negative and eliminating the positive and you can decide for yourself:  read more »

· 2004: George W. Bush (Current approval rating: 37%.) · 2003: The American Soldier (American military deaths since Bush's May 1, 2003 "Mission Accomplished" speech: 1,935.) · 1994: Pope John Paul II (Deceased. Portrayed by Jon Voight.) · 1980: Ronald Reagan (Deceased. Portrayed by James Brolin.) · 1975: American Women (Alito boasted of his '85 work against abortion; Maureen Dowd's new book won't help her pick up guys.) · 1972: Nixon and Kissinger (Former: Impeached. Resigned in disgrace. Deceased. Portrayed in an Oliver Stone movie. Latter: Gently mocked by Jon Stewart.) · 1969: The Middle Americans (Post Election U.S. Map; What's the Matter with Kansas?) · 1963: Martin Luther King, Jr. (Assassinated.) · 1961: John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Assassinated.) · 1952: Elizabeth II (Queen is target for al-Qaida, security sources confirm.) · 1941/1949: Winston Churchill (Deceased. Is Bush the Churchill of the 21st Century?) · 1939/ 1942: Joseph Stalin (Deceased. Posthumously condemned by Martin Amis.) · 1938: Adolf Hitler (Suicide.) · 1935: Haile Selassie (Deceased. Curiously beloved by fraternity members.) · 1927: Charles Lindbergh (Deceased. Son kidnapped; Philip Roth foil.) —Matt Haber

Every decade or so, a young, very smart, often photogenic woman comes along and produces a book that  read more »

Every decade or so, a young, very smart, often photogenic woman comes along and produces a book that  read more »

A very mild show at Diane von Furstenberg's studio this evening ended with a big bang when overhead lights fell from their supports, missing the model currently parading but smashing into the crowd.

At least two people, preliminary reports indicate, were injured.  read more »

No word yet on whether show attendee Paris Hilton was among the injured.

The Transom ran into Ms. von Furstenberg at St. Vincent's hospital after the show. She expressed her shock and dismay at the incident.

New York magazine, July 25, 2005 CELEBRITY PSYCHOS Celebrity and Its Discontents: A Diagnosis By Vanessa Grigoriadis Telephone rage, impromptu African sabbaticals, a trial that could only have taken place in Neverland—this season, our neurotic star culture seems to be suffering a complete mental collapse. Are only the crazy drawn to fame, or does fame make the famous crazy? Sidebar: See Our Diagnostic Celebrity Manual New York magazine, December 8, 2003 STARS GONE WILD Exploding Stars By Simon Dumenco Michael Jackson. Paris Hilton. Kobe Bryant. Martha Stewart. In a culture that worships celebrity, some of the most famous seem to be suffering a collective meltdown—accused of acts that betray their own particularly self-destructive brand of entitlement. But to what degree do we share the blame? Sidebar: Daphne Merkin imagines Michael Jackson on the couch.  read more »

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