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. . . so I missed this unfortunate gem from Richard Roeper, gunning for the Bob Greene Memorial Voice of the Silent Majority Award (here’s another entry). I think it explains a lot about the Paris Hilton phenomenon.
“You might feel sorry for them, if there weren’t so many stories about them behaving badly, so many videos of them acting as if they owned the world, so much evidence that they walked through life with a sense of entitlement until karma stepped up and smacked them silly.”
Finally, how can you not feel sorry for Paris Hilton? People will do what you praise them and pay them for (sort of like dogs), and she was veritable cottage industry of pretty, stupid, and wild before she could drink legally. Most reasonably well-off people get shipped off to college to be skeezy young adults in a lenient yet protective atmosphere. Most people her age get quietly looked down upon for what she’s done. She got paid. Thinking about the traditional sort of wastrel who pisses away his or her inheritance doing these things, you have to kind of admire that.
