Critic's Notebook: No payoff for viewers with Paris

June 28, 2007 Paris Hilton told Larry King that she has two films lined up for the summer. The story of how Hilton came to give her first post-jail interview to King has been thoroughly reported, from her father's botched effort to sell it to NBC for $1 million to a rejection by ABC's Barbara Walters, who felt double-crossed. What needs to be said -- and what was baldly apparent on Wednesday's "Larry King Live" -- was that Hilton needed this interview far more than any network needed to give it to her.

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