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Question:
I've seen a few of Traci Lord's legit. tv appearances and she sure seems like a better actress (and more attractive) than the arguably brain dead Paris Hilton.
Why can't Traci or Jenna Jameson get work and yet Paris is in demand (not for anything of
any artistic value I admit)
Answer:
Paris Hilton is in demand because young women want to *be* her. her "heiress" mystique is real. she did porn for kicks, not because she needed the money.
traci lords is fierce, but she seems hard, used up. and few smart, modern young girls really want to *be* jenna jameson. Her aesthetics are too cracked-out and she remains "socially" beyond beyond the pale.
Paris Hilton represents to young girls the fantasy of looking and even *behaving* like a porn star, yet magically retaining the status of a "good girl" and the independence of a "princess".
Young people today may be trending toward the wanton and exhibitionistic, but they are simultaneously snobby and elitist.
today, for young people world wide, "status" is a kind of porn in itself.
Paris Hilton is modeling a national wish-fulfilment trip. don't forget that miss hilton follows (probably quite consciously) in the steps of celebrity heiresses like barbara hutton, who scandalized the tabloids with her marriages and active, varied sex life.
the hilton sisters are related at least by marriage to both elizabeth taylor and zsa zsa gabor. miss hilton's aunt is the beautiful kim richards, from "escape to witch mountain" and "nanny and the professor". the public responds to paris hilton atavistically.
she was born to play the mythic, untouchable sex goddess role on and off the screen.
the fact is, many of miss hilton's fans have sex tapes of their own. everyone's got a camera in their bedroom! In the 90s, madonna, la toya jackson and pamela anderson set the explicit example for miss hilton. if paris hadn't done it, somebody else would have done it.
My esoteric ex-boyfriend on the west coast had this to say recently about the Paris Hilton phenomenon, and I agree: