Paris Hilton Talented? Really?

You would be lying to yourself if you said you had never heard of the one and only Miss Paris Hilton. You would not, on the other hand, be remiss if you were unable to say why exactly she is famous. I`m sure if you asked her, or any Paris-wannabe out there, they would say she's a singer, a runway model, a print model, and, most notably of late, an actress. The 'renaissance woman's' newest project is "The Hottie and The Nottie", a romantic comedy about a young man that tries to woo the love of his life, only to find that he begins to fall in love with her ugly, always-at-her-side best friend. If that doesn't just scream out Best Picture, I don't know what does. 

Eonline!.com's Jefferson Reid posted an article that attempts to answer the question "did Paris' high profile doom the film?" The article quotes Christine Lakin, 'the nottie', about the marketing techniques used in order to reach a large market. Lakin says that "with any project you take, you can't think about reviews and you can't think about the way a studio is going to market a film. I have no control over that. At the end of the day, people either love or hate Paris Hilton, and they will either want to go see the movie or they don’t."

Lakin also says that the film was "marketed as a vanity piece that’s not what you think it is, you think it’s going to be one big music video, and it's not at all. The thing that’s hard about it is I think [Paris] actually does a really nice job. She’s much more relaxed and real then you have ever seen her onscreen. It's very endearing. It's kinda how she is in real life behind the scenes."

So did Paris Hilton's love-her-or-hate-her-reputation cause the demise of her own film? It's quite possible. It is always a risk to bank on your star being the major selling point of a film. With actors like Brad Pitt and George Clooney, you can almost guarantee that their faces on the posters will bring in some highly-desired film-goers, but with a no-talent, good-for-nothing socialite like Paris Hilton, it's a real gamble. I guess that's what the studio gets for putting all it's eggs in one basket.