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Indian director hopes to cast Paris Hilton as Mother Teresa (Really... not a joke!)
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| 4/5/6
| Mikey_1962
Posted on 04/05/2006 8:17:29 AM PDT by Mikey_1962
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, India (AFP) - An Indian movie director said he hopes to persuade Paris Hilton to play the role of Nobel laureate and prospective Catholic Saint, Mother Teresa, in an upcoming film.
"Her features resemble Mother Teresa," director T. Rajeevnath told AFP from the southwestern coastal state of Kerala.
The filmmaker said Hilton is on his shortlist after a computer-generated image showed a close facial match between the hotel heiress and the Albanian-born nun.
Mother Teresa, who died in 1997, worked among the poor in the teeming slums of Kolkata, formerly Calcutta, with the Missionaries of Charity. She was beatified by Pope John Paul in 2003, a significant step on the road to sainthood in the Catholic church.
"A meeting with Paris Hilton is scheduled for the end of April," Rajeevnath said.
The 54-year-old director is well-known in India for his Malayalam-language films, including "Janani" (Mother) -- the story of seven nuns who care for an abandoned baby, which won a national award.
Hilton's prior movie experience includes appearing in a home-made sex video made by a former boyfriend that appeared on the Internet, and parts in several Hollywood B-films.
The blond socialite, who is often the focus of US celebrity gossip columns, also starred in the US reality television show "The Simple Life".
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: director; hilton; india; motherteresa; paris; parishilton; teresa; threadnumberfive
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To: Mikey_1962
Actually, a role like this might make a huge difference in Paris's life. I hope she gets it.
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posted on
04/05/2006 8:45:12 AM PDT
by
Antoninus
(I don't vote for liberals regardless of their party affiliation.)
To: Mikey_1962
Well, they are both of European ancestry, and they are both female. So they have a lot in common.
To: Bluegrass Conservative
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posted on
04/05/2006 9:10:26 AM PDT
by
Borges
To: Mikey_1962
What a joke! It reminds me of a hilarious skit Catherine O'Hara did on the comedy show, SCTV. She played the character of "Lola Hetherton", a ditsy, self-important, "blond bombshell" entertainer who goes to India to interview Mother Teresa. Lola dresses up in Indian clothing (along with a fully plastered make-up job and coiffed platinum blond hairdo)and tries to act as if she is altruistic like Mother Teresa. Her questions to Teresa show that she is clueless. From what I have seen and read about Paris Hilton, I have no doubt that she is just as clueless!
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posted on
04/05/2006 9:14:41 AM PDT
by
Nevadan
To: Mikey_1962
"No no, Ms. Hilton - when we said to get on your knees, we meant to pray!!"
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posted on
04/05/2006 9:17:57 AM PDT
by
reagan_fanatic
(Someday we'll look back on all this and plow into a parked car)
To: Mikey_1962
if hollywood wants to do the movie, its their choice ... if you don't agree with it.. dont watch it... once again this is America.
To: TexasRedeye
Yes, but the earlier post lacked pictures - which are worth a thousand words.
To: Bluegrass Conservative
Yeah . . . . I see the resemblance . . . . er, they both have the same birthday, don't they?
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posted on
04/05/2006 10:11:18 AM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: rightwingintelligentsia
I think this has been posted here at least 12 times over the last month.
And, your point is!!?? The picture of Paris, even if she is dumb as a bucket of hair, is worth it!!
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posted on
04/05/2006 10:13:00 AM PDT
by
DustyMoment
(FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
To: Mikey_1962
how about Madonna as the blessed Madonna?
makes about as much sense.
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posted on
04/05/2006 10:17:17 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
("An armed society is a polite society" Robert A. Heinlein)
To: Mikey_1962
I think I'll wait for the Lester Maddox
Story starring Jesse Jackson.
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posted on
04/05/2006 10:20:51 AM PDT
by
N. Theknow
(Kennedys - Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat - But they know what's best.)
To: Mikey_1962
Lightning may strike the set on a clear day...
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posted on
04/05/2006 12:11:57 PM PDT
by
Sender
(As water has no constant form, there are in war no constant conditions. Be without form. -Sun Tzu)
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
04/05/2006 2:30:39 PM PDT
by
Ultra Sonic 007
(Hitler and Stalin have nothing on Abortion)
To: mnehrling
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posted on
04/05/2006 2:38:37 PM PDT
by
Burkean
To: Ultra Sonic 007; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; SandyInSeattle; Darksheare; ...
Someone's mixing up "saint" and "skank."
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posted on
04/05/2006 9:42:21 PM PDT
by
Slings and Arrows
(When Al Franken had his bris, they threw away the baby and saved the foreskin.)
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