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    Diziet_Sma: Zero Tolerance for Paris Hilton can only be a good thing. more »
    Diziet_Sma: I find it irritating that the author is holding up Audrey Hepburn as a model of 'self-respect', considering the poor woman battled with anorexia for m... more »
    champagne: Never over Audrey. Ever. more »
    Phalene: Weren't most of Audrey Hepburn's characters prostitutes or child like women who needed a man to complete them? Hell, Gigi is about a girl being groome... more »
    ellaesther: I'm just going to throw out there that "emulation" is not a bad thing, in and of itself. It means recognizing the admirable in someone else, and attem... more »
    FangirlD: From Amazon.com: "In a society driven by celebutante news and myspace profiles, women of class, style and charm are hard to come by. The Audrey and Ka... more »
    tscheese: Tscheese's Guide to Being A Pretty Okay Human 1) Consider the comfort and safety of those around you. Wearing twelve gallons of perfume on mass transi... more »
    augie1: This isn't going "Hepburn," but minimicing Holly Golightly. And frankly I dont think "brains, beauty and self-respect" when I think of that character.... more »
    ellaesther: I am sooo tired of (Fill In the Blank)-Bashing -- be it Paris, or Lindsey, or Megan Fox, or whomsoever. Being respectable ("classy") doesn't mean losi... more »
    Easybreezy: I think all it takes is keeping your panties on? more »
    tscheese: Look, if taking lessons from Paris Hilton will enable me to have immense gobs of cash and an army of stylists and nutritionists and like a zillion fla... more »
    marshmallory: Or, you know, be yourself? It might be cliche´, but I'd rather be me than a Hepburn or a Hilton. more »
    DutchessOfDork: I would like to be a Katharine Hepburn. FUCK YES more »
    alextotheb: I find the label "classy" somewhat problematic. Can anyone contribute a Marxist deconstruction of this term? I CAN'T ARTICULATE WHY THIS BUGS ME SO!!!1 more »
    Aesop's Foibles. YES.: I dunno. I think I'd rather take lessons from Countess Luann Fakey McFakerton DeLesseps. Her modern take on how to be a great big phony appeals to me ... more »
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    No Tolerance For Paris Hilton

    In her book, How To Be a Hepburn in a Hilton World, Jordan Christy urges us to embrace "real women with brains, beauty and self-respect" instead of Paris, Lindsay and their ilk. [Hachette Book Group, Page Six]