Justice is Served

#1. Paris Hilton spent three days in the clink and then the sheriff department allowed her to finish her term under house arrest due to "health issues". Well, the county attorney saw through the B.S. and asked for a hearing. First, Hilton thought she could make her case over the phone, but the judge felt that she should be at the courthouse-- and even had some nice officers go pick her up (awesome). In the end, the judge felt that she could handle jail, so back she goes.

I doubt this will get Hilton's shit together, and I doubt she'll learn anything other than "the system sucks" and look to blame anyone but herself-- but it sure is nice to see. Hopefully, the media will have no access to her, and she can drop off the planet for the next few weeks.

Why, oh why, didn't she go to rehab like everyone else looking to escape their fates?

For a funny take on it, check out TV Guide's Matt Webb Mitovich's post here .


#2. Isaiah Washington's contract wasn't renewed for the next season of Grey's Anatomy. He (allegedly) used the new, improved F-word at work, which caused a flap; then the jackass uses it again-- at the Golden Globes during an interview; then he does the rehab/sensitivity training/etc etc etc circuit. All the while, producers never let on that he wouldn't be back, so he finishes out the season, and his storyline ends with him leaving his fiance at the alter and leaving town. Sure, he could have come back next season, but I guess the show went in a different direction.

Hmm. I guess you shouldn't disparage someone at work and then (indirectly) do it again without remorse in public on one of Hollywood's biggest nights, and then do the routine where you try to look like you're sorry but don't really do anything to show you've changed.

And, get this: his people are considering legal action. Good luck with that one. They've cited all the things he's done (the rehab/sensitivity training) and he even requested he do a PSA. That reminds me of the Sam Kinison routine where a rocker who got busted for drunk driving has to a PSA about it or go to jail, so the PSA goes, "Hi! Don't drink or drive, or you'll have to do a commercial like this one."

Too little, too late.

On the subject, has anyone noticed that there are now two F-words? No mainstream magazine I read used the actual word (it was "fag", okay), they called it "the f-word". Now could that be confusing? What if readers thought Washington called Knight a "fu**"? (even I won't put that word in here).

I propose the original F-word gets upgraded to "F-Bomb", and we'll let the new F-word be the lone one. I think that will help things.