The world stopped on Friday, as crazed paparazzi, dueling lawmen, lynch-mob commentators, and one over-the-top distraught heiress collided to make us all, for one shining moment, remember the glorious days of OJ. It’s no mistake that this stuff happens in L.A., which has established a news apparatus that can handle the celebrity handcuff moment. Does she [...]
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Posted in News, Paris/Britney/Lindsay on Jun 8th, 2007
4:00 PM, EST, NYC: We are not less human than Paris Hilton, hallelujah, say the mass of commentators who are exulting “this great day for America” as a crying, disturbed Paris Hilton is shipped back to jail to fulfill her sentence. The picture of Paris, handcuffed and crying in the back of the Sheriff’s car on [...]
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Posted in News, Paris/Britney/Lindsay on Jun 8th, 2007
2:35 PM EST, NYC: Cut all programming. It’s live every second, every move, with hundreds of paparazzi and media swarming the Sheriff’s car with a handcuffed prisoner in the back, being taken to face the judge. Photographers and reporters were trampled outside the Hilton’s Hollywood Hills estate, and a couple of frenzied paparazzi even ran after [...]
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Posted in News, Paris/Britney/Lindsay on Jun 8th, 2007
It was reported this morning that Paris Hilton would not leave her house for a 9 a.m. (Pacific time) court session with the judge who originally sentenced her and that she would instead testify by phone. But at 8:45 a.m., the judge rejected that arrangement and ordered the sheriff to pick Hilton up and bring her to court. [...]
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Posted in Media, News, Paris/Britney/Lindsay on Jun 7th, 2007
The reports, mostly from news-driven gossip celeb central TMZ.com, were intially grim. Paris was complaining that she was freezing cold, the lights were always on, she had no pillow, the loudspeaker was blaring ”You have one minute left,” when she was on the phone. She was crying and she couldn’t sleep. She spent two hours with [...]
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