Paris Hilton Tops Best Seller List

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Paris Book Tops Best-sellers List

Sexy socialite PARIS HILTON's debut book has gone straight to the top of the best-sellers list after it was launched in New York yesterday.

The hotel heiress goes through 23 rules covering 'How To Be An Heiress' in the book CONFESSIONS OF AN HEIRESS: A TONGUE-IN-CHIC PEEK BEHIND THE POSE.

In the book she writes, 'I take my dog TINKERBELL seriously. I take my work seriously. But I don't take myself all that seriously. Never be too easy. If you're too easy, a guy knows he has you.

'It doesn't hurt to act rich as well as hot. I've found it to be a fairly unbeatable combination. Who's a guy going to go for, a girl who's gorgeous or a girl who's gorgeous and rich?'

Hilton's SIMPLE LIFE reality TV co-star NICOLE RICHIE has followed in her footsteps by penning a book about her drink and drug problems, to help teenagers cope with adolescence.

- Elite

Sounds like the biggest load of

The scary thing is that young girls are going to take this seriously and try and be like her. God help me if my kids turn out like that. I'd kill them myself.

Protesters disrupt Paris Hilton book signing

Not everyone is amused by Paris Hilton's literary efforts.

The hotel heiress/party girl was doing a book signing for her memoirs, "Confessions of an Heiress: A Tongue-in-Chic Peek Behind the Pose," at Book Soup in West Hollywood when she was met with a group of protesters, reports MSNBC.com.

"There were about 50 people carrying placards that said things like 'Paris, Your Book is only good for hamster bedding,' " a source says. "E! the entertainment network started filming them, and they began chanting, 'Paris can't spell E!' "

Were they disgruntled unpublished authors? Was it a staged event?

"Hard to say, but they seemed serious," says the source.

The protesters didn't dampen Hilton's fans' enthusiasm, however.

"When she came out of the book store, she had her dog, Tinkerbell, in her arms and she was met with dozens and dozens of flashbulbs," the source says.

- AZ Central

What is the point of protesting against her? I agree that she's a mron and can't act, sing, write or do anything, hell I agree she probably can't even spell E!, but protesting's not going to get you anywhere. Of course she doesn't care about that sort of thing, to her the protesters are all bottom feeders who have no impact on her perfect little world. It's stupid.

Yeah, I was all set to say Paris writing a book is the dumbest thing I've ever heard, but then read about the protestors and thought "no... that is"

- i dunno bout the book thingy, but her movies can continue. shes the hottest! BTW: nice one gaboman, lol!

Hilton's advice for wannabe heiresses

‘Simple Life’ star's new book is called ‘Confessions of an Heiress’

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Paris Hilton poses for photographers as she holds a copy of her book "Confessions of an Heiress."

Celebrity socialite Paris Hilton, who shot to infamy after a raunchy sex video of her flooded the Internet, now is teaching girls how to behave and let their “inner heiress out.”

The 23-year-old Hilton dishes out her pearls of party-life wisdom in a 178-page book, “Confessions of an Heiress,” published this month by Fireside, which is more scrapbook than memoir, with pictures outnumbering paragraphs.

“It’s just a look inside my life,” says the heiress to the hotel fortune, who suggests a weekend in St. Tropez in the south of France for beating the blues.

“It’s about my friends and dating tips and do’s and don’ts of dressing. It’s kind of like a girls’ guide. It’s pretty interesting. It was hard, but it was a really fun project,” Hilton told Reuters in an interview.

Setting herself up as a jet-set role model might strike some as the height of chutzpah. But America worships a different kind of celebrity these days.

“In the old days, you were a celebrity because you were good at something,” said Robert Thompson, professor of media and popular culture at Syracuse University, about the society girl who went from gossip-page fodder to TV stardom with the Fox series “The Simple Life,” after her sexcapade.

“Now there is a whole new subset of celebrities who are being created essentially for the sake of being famous. For someone known for being a beautiful party girl, a video like that is like a promotional device. I think it did wonders for that series.”

Playing to the hilt

Now one thing is certain — Hilton is a hot property and she’s playing it to the hilt. Besides her book, the former model has launched a jewelry line, and applied to trademark her name and copyright a tiara logo. She plans to put the Paris Hilton brand on clothes, perfumes, makeup and shoes.

‘Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown. I do.’ — Paris Hilton

And that’s not all. The slender blonde is recording a pop-rock album, spreading her acting wings with a role in a remake of the horror film classic, “House of Wax,” and filming a National Lampoon movie comedy, “Pledge This!”

“It’s all about taking charge and branding yourself,” Hilton said. “I think we’re living in a moment when having a career, especially a really glamorous one, is very sexy.”

Born with a platinum spoon in her mouth, Hilton reveals tidbits about life in the supersonic lane in her “memoir” but does not ignore the less fortunate.

“People act differently toward you when you’ve got jewelry on your head,” she notes about her fondness for tiaras. “Always act like you’re wearing an invisible crown. I do.”

Common touch

Hilton hopes to pass on some of her fashion magic to common folk with her jewelry collection. It features belly chains, earrings, bracelets and anklets — accessories she uses in the skimpy “slutwear” style she favors — and is available at Amazon.com, priced from $15 to $95.

“With my line I try to use what I like and make it affordable,” she said. “So anyone can look like an heiress.”

Despite the book title’s promise, it is a bit light in the confessions department.

Among the biggest revelations is what she “desperately” hates about her body: “I have size 11 feet” she reveals, noting that stilettos make them look smaller.

Conspicuously absent is a detailed account of exactly how her sex romp video made it onto the Internet despite Hilton’s insistence it had been made strictly for personal use.

“Everyone does crazy stuff when they’re young, but if you’re an heiress, you have even more opportunities to mess up,” is about as far as she goes on the subject.

Media professor Thompson says Hilton’s success is not entirely a matter of dumb luck, noting she uses a “naivete which she plays like a finely tuned instrument,” and crediting her with being “as savvy about how celebrity works in modern culture as (pop artist Andy) Warhol.”

Like Warhol, Hilton elevates the everyday and banal to new heights, such as her tips on how to snag a “hot guy.”

“Guys do not want girls who are too nice to them, or girls they can walk all over and get too easily. Every guy wants to be with a woman who thinks like an heiress,” Hilton says.

Of course, it helps to actually be an heiress.

“It doesn’t hurt to act rich as well as hot. I’ve found it to be a fairly unbeatable combination.”

- MSNBC

Can I put in my two cents here guys? Most of the books showed pictures of her posing with several different celebrities and her sister as well. When I read this book in Barnes and Noble, I did consider it She claims that she always wanted a sister but she shuns her younger brother, Baron. I think I might find hope in Baron Hilton . He might marry a working-class girl and do good things with the Hilton hotel chain than his father or his grandfather have never done. The hotel chain is going down the crapper very fast and maybe Baron could save it, I hope. Him marrying a working class girl is not that utterly ridiculous. Yes, he was raised around wealth but to me he doesn't seem to be snobbish like his sisters and parents so its possible he might rebel against his parents wishes. HE MIGHT.


'Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo'- H.G Wells

Paris Hilton at her book launch at Virgin Records
1st December

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