Stephen Fries Paris Hilton

Posted: 8/20/04 at 2:35pm

I'm always intrigued by those staightforward Brits who just tell it like it is:

IS PARIS FRYING? What does Stephen Fry have against Paris Hilton? Everything, apparently.

At this week's SoHo House screening of "Bright Young Things," Fry's directorial debut, the Brit actor told Lowdown:

"People who ought to know better will say, 'Oh I saw a picture of Paris Hilton the other day,' and you think, 'You're a grownup! Why should you care about this trashy, worthless human being?' "

Fry said Hilton could be a character in his movie, based on Evelyn Waugh's social satire "Vile Bodies." These days, to be like Paris, "it takes a startling vanity, an enormous lack of self-knowledge, and a huge amount of greed and desire," Fry added.

Posted: 8/20/04 at 3:09pm

interesting, i guess

Posted: 8/20/04 at 3:20pm

Perhaps only interesting to me, Captain, as one of the few who finds this explosion of ridiculous celebrity . . . well, ridiculous.