Paris’ Larry King Interview
Wanted to post a few thoughts on Paris’ interview on “Larry King Live” on CNN while it’s fresh in my mind.
The bottom line is that I was very unimpressed by the whole thing. First, I heard nothing that hasn’t been reported in other news outlets over the past couple of weeks. Paris talked about how her prison experience has changed her life, about how she wants to do good works and to change her image. However, she still seems very unsure about what direction her good works will take-talking about several different things like working for breast cancer, a transitional home for women getting out of prison, and several other things, but with no definite plan.
When it comes to changing her image, again, she seems to have no definite plans. And, given some of her actions-her hair appointment a few hours after her release to have extensions put back in her hair-and her answer to Larry King about something she really wanted to change in her life (according to her, the way her voice goes up when she becomes stressed or down is a primary concern for her?!)-it doesn’t sound like she’s given a lot of serious thought to actually changing a great deal.
When Larry King lobbed an unexpected question at her, like her favorite Bible passage, she floundered, seemed to be checking her notes, and then said that she didn’t have a favorite. I have to give Larry King his due her, though. He managed to make an hour interview out of brief and uninformative answers.
I think I agreed more with Anderson Cooper following the interview. He was definitely unimpressed with Paris. I was really hoping to see something substantive from Paris. I wasn’t expecting it, but I was hoping. It does seem that Paris may have a future in politics, though. She seems to have a gift for dodging questions and giving vague answers!
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June 28th, 2007 at 7:54 am
I did not see the interview, but perhaps we need to adjust our expectations for who we are dealing with here … it is Paris, after all. A short jail stint is not going to teach her to be George Clooney. I am not a fan, but building substance takes time. In the interim, she could stop being pro-ana and using the “n” word and she would probably do a lot of good in terms of girls looking up to her.