Where Has Paris Hilton Disappeared
December 6, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under Entertainment
Where Has Paris Hilton Disappeared, Once a fixture on the red carpet and a staple of the daily news cycle, Paris Hilton has recently all but disappeared from the American consciousness.
Has the socialite who became famous simply for being famous ceded her throne to a new set of up-and-coming reality stars and party fixtures, or has she gone purposely dark in order to resurrect her brand like a phoenix rising from the ashes?
Paris Hilton broke onto the New York City socialite scene in 2001, more famous for her late-night partying than for the small modeling jobs she had started taking. But her fame factor really began to take off when she starred in the Fox reality television series “The Simple Life,” with her childhood best friend Nicole Richie, in 2003.
Dspite bad movie reviews, Hilton managed to make news. She was so pervasive that in 2004 New York Daily News gossip columnist Lloyd Grove banned her from his page and in 2007 The Associated Press conducted an experiment to try not reporting on Hilton for a week. Grove was successful for two years. The AP made it through its weeklong blackout and then reported on Hilton’s arrest for driving with a suspended license nine days after the blackout began.
It is hard to believe that after years of honing her ability to exploit herself and her name, Hilton has simply let the media forget about her. Perhaps dipping below the radar is exactly what Hilton is looking to do in order to rebuild her brand.
Where Has Paris Hilton Disappeared was first posted on December 6, 2009 at 11:08 am.
World’s Largest Floating Christmas Tree Lights up in Brazil
December 6, 2009 by Trend PK
Filed under Entertainment
World’s Largest Floating Christmas Tree Lights up in Brazil, The lights are blazing from the world’s largest floating Christmas tree — a gigantic 85-metre high metal structure set on a lagoon in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil.
Despite the rain, some 100,000 people flocked around the Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon on Saturday (December 5) night to watch the fireworks show which has become one of the city’s main tourist attractions over the past decade.
This year, the tree constructed by Brazil’s largest insurance company features images of Christmas wreaths flickering from its nearly three million lights.
With the mountain-top Christ the Redeemer statue looking down on it, the tree stands as a brightly flashing symbol of peace in one of the world’s most violent cities.
The Christmas tree, first erected in 1996, is Rio de Janeiro’s third biggest tourist event after the pre-lenten Carnival and New Year’s Eve on Copacabana and other beaches. More than a million people are expected to view the structure before the lights are turned off on January 6. The Guinness Book of Records lists it as the world’s largest floating Christmas tree.
World’s Largest Floating Christmas Tree Lights up in Brazil was first posted on December 6, 2009 at 11:29 am.
