Excerpt: Ms. Hilton is an attractive woman with proven talent for marketing and self-promotion, though as a reality heroine she seems a little passé — a Sony Walkman in an iPod era, a Friendster in the age of Facebook or, to put it in context, a single-process blonde in a triple-process world.
This is, after all, a reality show about a former reality-show star. There was a time, way back in the dark ages before “The Hills,” “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” and “Jersey Shore,” when Ms. Hilton was famous for more than being famous. Along with her onetime friend Nicole Richie, Ms. Hilton had a hit series on Fox called “The Simple Life,” a reality version of “Green Acres” that plucked these two socialites out of Beverly Hills and put them in rural Arkansas to do farm chores. The 2003 premiere drew about 13 million viewers, far more than the 9.6 million who watched the first episode of “Glee” on Fox or the 8.4 million who watched the premiere of the third season of “Jersey Shore,” which is MTV’s highest-rated show and occupies a huge space in popular culture. http://tv.nytimes.com/2011/06/01/arts/television/paris-hilton-in-the-world-according-to-paris.html -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
