If you haven't seen the video of David Letterman showing Paris Hilton for the fool she is, here it is. It's a must see. In this day and age when celebrities do stupid things but no one calls them on it, this interview is a breath of fresh air. We live in a media culture where publicists rule the roost by making rules about what the media cannot ask, and celebrities then get to show up and talk about what they want to talk about with no fear of real questions. Media types are afraid to break the publicists' rules because they fear they will then be blacklisted and won't have access to the celebrity.
David Letterman threw that conventional wisdom to the wind and made a great show of it. The crowd is right there with him as he makes Paris sweat. Word is Paris was scheduled to appear on his show right at the time all her problems started in Los Angeles, and instead of making the trip to appear with Dave and talk about it then, she cancelled her appearance. Dave gets his point across a couple of times in the interview when he makes vague comments about how she hasn't been on the show for a long tine and he wishes she could be on the show more often and that he would love for her to stop by more often when she's in town.
This interview is David Letterman at his best, doing what no one else will do and sticking to his guns. I just wish he would have finished it -- he let her off at the end and did what was expected of him in order to keep his access to her.
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