Blissful is the world where Paris is not news

June 26, 2007 Paris Hilton finally gets to see freedom again today after paying her, uh, debt to society in a correctional facility that's come to be known as the Lynwood Hilton, stoking yet another paparazzi feeding frenzy and inspiring most of us to wonder if another one of those "Sopranos" finale black screens might be arranged. Well, it seems that following yet another weekend of rumored network bidding wars for a Hilton interview and all other stories (fire in Lake Tahoe, flooding at LAX, civil war in Palestine) taking a back seat, it left me speculating about how a conversation with just such a comatose individual might sound. Hospital Nurse: "Um, she's the heiress to the Hilton hotel fortune and she got tossed in jail for blowing off some traffic violations or something."

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