A culture in which Paris Hilton can make a living is, by definition, problematic.Well, abandon all hope ye who are stuck in this culture, in these times. Paris will share the big screen with Paul Sorvino and Alexa Vega in Repo! The Genetic Opera. It starts shooting in Canada next month.
Now, if George Bush were looking for a good reason for preemptive war, this might be it. Quick! Somebody put a bug in Dick Cheney's ear: Nuke Canada -- next month.
The horror rock opera, based on a stage musical, is set in a plague-ravaged future where people can purchase new organs on the installment plan from a corporation called Geneco. The catch is that if the payments stop, the organs are repossessed.
Hilton will portray the fame-seeking daughter of Geneco’s owner (Sorvino).
“We saw many actresses for the role, and Paris sang it better than all of them,” producer Carl Mazzocone told the Hollywood trade paper Daily Variety in Monday editions.
The director, Darren Lynn Bousman, also praised Hilton.
“I have auditioned at least 30 actresses for this role — Paris came in and owned it,” he told Variety. “She is this role.”
Still, one would think you'd still have to have some talent even to play yourself. I guess they're rolling the dice on that one.
But this statement by the producer that “We saw many actresses for the role, and Paris sang it better than all of them,” frankly, beggars creduilty. I think the unspun version of what Mazzocone was trying to say is, "Holy crap! This is Hollywood Freakin' California, and we couldn't get 30 actresses who could outsing a hyena undergoing electroshock treatments? Well, maybe Paris can camp it up and get by . . . but she's definitely gonna have to get naked in this movie."
And so it goes in a culture where, pretty soon, the only words anybody knows will be F*** and Duh.
Maybe D'oh!
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