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Magazine readers nationwide may have been surprised yesterday when they picked up what looked like a thin April issue of National Geographic—and found Paris Hilton cavorting with a stuffed elephant and gorilla on the cover. No, it’s not an actual copy of the iconic nature publication, but an April Fools’ parody issue distributed across the country in a collaborative effort between National Geographic magazine and The Harvard Lampoon, a semi-secret Sorrento Square social organization that used to occasionally publish a so-called humor magazine. The Lampoon provided and controlled the content...
...internet search engines are a spookily accurate digital barometer of contemporary celebrity - in 2007, Google's Top Ten Search terms included Britney Spears, Anna Nicole Smith and Paris Hilton; Gordon Brown didn't feature - Tussaud's is a clunkier analog version of the same thing. It conducts its own polling among its patrons (most visitors come from Britain, Germany, India and the U.S.) and also conducts wider market research to decide exactly which prominent people, living or dead, should be immortalized in a kind of tallow known as "Japan wax". Popularity among the patrons was what won Bollywood star Salman...
...universal themes” that garner it a wide audience, though he noted that, despite its popularity, The Simpsons is not a hit in Japan because the characters have four fingers—the sign of the Japanese mafia. But celebrities, said Reiss, love the show. Even Paris Hilton, who was called a “moron” in one episode, sent the Simpsons crew a basket of cookies the next day—“proving, of course, that Paris Hilton is a moron.” But Reiss said he has become jaded by the heavy...
...your sentences), I decided to dress like Blair Waldorf from “Gossip Girl.” I wore white tights and gigantic turban headbands with tie-neck blouses. It was amazing. I went to the Widener reading room every day. I listened to Prince. I read Perez Hilton like a normal person. My thesis advisor then told me that I had a penchant for “windy philosophizing.” After that, I sort of went into a freefall. There were extreme highs and frightening lows. I started listening to Miley Cyrus, then habitually wore...
...feel when it came out that Paris Hilton-who had helped you in the Vote or Die Campaign-did not actually vote in the 2004 election? -Taylor Warren, Greenville, S.C.I wasn't really surprised, because it takes steps. Her taking the time to be involved and put on the t-shirt was a step. That t-shirt will go down as one of the biggest political statements in history. If we don't vote this year, we are going to keep on dying. Some people have ideas like let's stay there for a hundred years, but sometimes...