Word: laurens
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Following four young women's dramas, shifting alliances and adventures in the L.A. glamour biz, The Hills (Season 4 starts Aug. 18; Seasons 1 through 3 are out on DVD) comes from a proud heritage of California teen soaps. We met the protagonist, Lauren Conrad, on MTV's high school reality soap Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County. After graduation, she was spun off to The Hills, moved to L.A., landed an internship at Teen Vogue and made new friends. There's frenemy Heidi Montag, with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Spencer Pratt, the social-climbing Laddie Macbeth...
...process, they've become tabloid stars. In one episode Lauren asks Whitney if she went out last night, and Whitney says, "No, actually, I took the night off." It's a figure of speech, but not entirely: their social lives are their jobs. (The tabs unearthed a contract in which Audrina was paid $10,000 to go to a nightclub for two hours...
Fans can follow their story in the off-season in gossip pages, blogs and celebrity magazines. (You may well know them from those even if you've never watched the show.) Thus when a rumor circulated that Lauren and a boyfriend had made a sex tape, it played in the gossip sheets, then came up in Season 3, when she accused Heidi of helping spread the dirt...
...illusion is broken only when the subjects open their mouths; their dialogue is, to be tactful, minimalist. (Lauren's conversation with an ex-boyfriend: "I told you I'd be your friend again eventually. I just couldn't do it at first." "It's just hard to get over." "I know." And--scene!) The Hills is like a music video, an art-directed distillation of emotion that would only be ruined by too many words. It's life, if you were young, lucky and beautiful and had your own cinematographer and sound-track curator. If this is fake, maybe reality...
...absurdity of such ludicrous ideas. Does the New Yorker really believe Obama is a Muslim extremist and his wife a terrorist? No, but the editors thought Americans were smart enough to interpret the utter ridiculousness as an exaggeration - one that fits well into this increasingly overdramatic presidential campaign. Lauren Tighe, SAGINAW, MICH...