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April 25, 2005
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Paris Hilton, whose movie, the remake of “House of Wax,” comes out next week,
is reportedly really excited to have children with current boyfriend Greek
shipping heir, Paris Latsis. Yes, that’s right, her name is Paris and so is
his. That’s pretty creepy. Along with being heir to a shipping fortune, Latsis
also has the distinction of being the most famous male with the name Paris
since The Iliad. Sources close to Hilton are quoted as saying “She says she
wants his baby and that he’s so good-looking that she just knows they’d have
beautiful kids.” Hey, that’s all that matters, right? Hilton herself added, “I
know having a child will complete my life. I am so great with animals and I
know I will be a good parent and I know Paris will be a great father.” Sounds
like a future mother of the year candidate to me. We’re just astonished at the
knuckleheads that Greek shipping heirs seem to be associating
themselves with these days. Perhaps the answer is to get them to hook up with
each other, which may be tad less dysfunctional but a whole of a lot more
profitable.
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European bookies have Greece a 3/1 favorite to win this year’s Eurovision Song
Contest, with its closest competitor being Norway at about 5/1 odds and a host
of other countries at 10/1 and 20/1. Cyprus stands at 25/1. Greece and Cyprus
have already advanced to the final round to take place in May. By the way, the
odds that no one would pay attention to these songs if they weren’t in English
stand at 1/1.
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A cloud of dust from Africa covered most of southern Greece early last week,
reducing visibility and affecting air and sea transportation. According to
meteorologists, this is a regular phenomenon during this time of year. Also
explained as a regular phenomenon is the layer of dust on Camera Guy’s camera
between March 25th and Easter.
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Is anyone watching NBC’s new apocalyptic miniseries, Revelations, which
premiered two weeks ago on Wednesday? (Rebroadcasts are on BRAVO throughout the
week as well.) The premise of the show is Christ’s possible rebirth on Earth
and the signaling of the final battle between good and evil. In the first two
episodes, the main characters received reports that a miracle baby (which could
be Christ) was saved off the coast of the Greek island of Patmos. It has made
for good watching just for bad Greek accents and watching the producers of this
miniseries trying to recreate a Greek port on Patmos without actually going
there. But with the characters’ search for the miracle baby moving to Italy,
this show may have lost its hook for Greek-Americans.
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