The Forgotten Liars
Video of Paris the Day After Her Sentence
Commentary by Tim Horrigan, May 8, 2007
Paris Hilton didn't go to jail immediately after her Friday May 4, 2007 court date: she had another month of freedom. She used the first day of this month of freedom to go out and have lunch with her mother Kathy Hilton. (Kathy, by the way, seems to have taken over her role as the Bad Grrl in the Hilton family: she acted out at the hearing— and during this video, she was much more animated in front of the cameras than Paris was.)
And yes, there is a YouTube video documenting this outing. It's about 6 minutes of nothing much happening, but it holds a certain fascination:
Freedom for Paris doesn't have quite the same meaning as it does for us non-celebrities. Everywhere she goes she is pursued by a pack of papparazzi. She treats them quite civilly and matter-of-factly on what must have been a very depressing day for her. At times, she even uses them as blockers when fans spot her and try to get her autograph— and the paparazzi are happy to help her out. More than once you hear them politely asking people to give her some room.
She makes a brief, almost inaudible statement to the effect that her 45-day prison sentence is unjust and unwarranted, and then she and her mom go about their business. It's pretty ordinary business. They drove down to their peaceful suburban community's quaint little business district to have lunch at a locally-owned Italian restaurant. After lunch, they did a little shopping for Gifty-Type Items at a stationery store on the next block. (The only extraordinary thing is that the community just happens to be Beverly Hills.)
The restaurant is the Prego Ristorante (not owned by the Campbell Soup Company):
The stationery store is Francis-Orr Stationery:
And before I show you the embed for the video, I will make a gratuitous plug for a competing stationery emporium, Soolip Paperie, owned by someone I know from our days as students at USC:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8mmWkZ0e2o
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