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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Paris Hilton says she loves hot, hot, hot Dubai
2009-06-19
[Al Arabiya Latest] Dressed in a lime green Middle Eastern style abaya, or dress, American socialite Paris Hilton entered the conference room and bid the eagerly awaiting media with a "Salam Alaikum," Arabic for hello, a day after she arrived in Dubai to film a new season of her raunchy reality show.

The hotel heiress who has only been in Dubai for only 24 hours is already besotted with the glitzy town as she told the press: "Dubai is hot, hot, hot and not just literally."

"I love the Middle Eastern culture and want to learn more about it. The women here are very beautiful and their dresses are certainly a lot more elegant than what women wear in Hollywood," Hilton told a press conference held at the Inter Continental hotel.

The socialite said she had big plans to enjoy the culture and wanted to go for a camel ride and get a henna tattoo as well as swim with the dolphins, meaning she would be headed to the luxurious Atlantis hotel, which launched last year with a massive celebrity-studded party as the financial crisis hit.
Posted by:Fred

#17  Good article. Paris should have somebody read it to her.
Posted by: tu3031   2009-06-19 22:48  

#16   from xbalanke's link "All over Dubai, crazy projects that were Under Construction are now Under Collapse. They were building an air-conditioned beach here, with cooling pipes running below the sand, so the super-rich didn't singe their toes on their way from towel to sea."

really worth a read
Posted by: Classer   2009-06-19 20:18  

#15  I didn't realize there was a pop-up edition of the art of war...
Posted by: flash91   2009-06-19 19:36  

#14  xbalanke--Thanks for that link. That was like watching a car wreck... tragic, yet so fascinating you can't turn away. Sounds like this place will be a perfect fit for someone of such fine moral character as Ms. Hilton...
Posted by: Dar   2009-06-19 17:48  

#13  Here's an eye-opening (also stomach-churning, bile-inducing, and BP-spiking) look at the real Dubai. If Paris does swim with the dolphins, she should make sure it's in a well-treated pool.
Posted by: xbalanke   2009-06-19 15:46  

#12  Normally I'd agree JohnQC, but these crappy reality shows are watched by a lot more people than they themselves would like to admit.

Imaging. Thats the game. Think: well family works there so maybe I could move there or visit often.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2009-06-19 15:08  

#11  Yawn.
Posted by: JohnQC   2009-06-19 14:39  

#10  A camel ride, is that like a donkey punch?

Joe, I have no idea..I have a family member who visited; I guess its what all the cool kids are doing. 6 star hotels, vegas-in-the-gulf without all the 'sin' and you get to sneak around for a beer like living with the parents again.

Like I GaS, but this is an excellent way to drum up tourism and say, "Hey, we'll have a skank like hilton show up and we can prove how progressive we are".

Personally I think people going to Dubai to party is glorified cow tipping.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2009-06-19 12:11  

#9  a day after she arrived in Dubai to film a new season of her raunchy reality show.

This ought to cause a few pious Arab (little) heads to explode. Riots in 3,2,l.
Posted by: ed   2009-06-19 11:14  

#8  The socialite said she had big plans to enjoy the culture and wanted to go for a camel ride

I bet she did.
Posted by: Beavis   2009-06-19 10:55  

#7  "Salam Alaikum" is a greeting from one Muslim to another, "Peace be upon thee". Not generally used to a trashy American "heiress".
Posted by: mojo   2009-06-19 10:47  

#6  Oh, good. Looks like she's over her traumatic breakup with...that guy.
And the check cleared...
Posted by: tu3031   2009-06-19 10:12  

#5  She can read ?

Nah, just looking at the pictures.

Honey, its not Sun Tzu - its "Sun Tan" you should be reading.
Posted by: Ebbaving the Scantily Clad3496   2009-06-19 07:59  

#4  Room occupancy is down. Clearly a cheaply scripted marketing ploy by the Atlantis and local chamber of commerce. Next please.
Posted by: Besoeker   2009-06-19 07:38  

#3  We are living in a combination of the movie Brazil and Weimar Germany, folks.

Or a worldwide version of Stephenson's The Big U.
Posted by: no mo uro   2009-06-19 05:53  

#2  Nice photoshop job. :-)
Posted by: gorb   2009-06-19 03:28  

#1  Yokay-y-y, I'll bite, what is it about DUBAI thats getting my various les femmez cousins, immediate andor extended, all excited to go or move or work there???
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2009-06-19 00:17  

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