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Posted at 10:42 AM ET, 05/20/2008

Paris and Paula Want You Sober

By Liz Kelly

Paula Abdul at Sober Day 2008. (Image courtesy 5WPR) (AP)

Like everyone else with a byline and an e-mail address at a major media organization, I am constantly pummeled with annoying press releases. Any delight I get out of them is solely a product of being able to delete them quickly and without mercy. There's just something satisfying about seeing the product of some forlorn junior level PR rep's morning disappear into the ether. But, as the Post Rockers have showcased so well, some releases transcend the common blah-blah-blah-edness to achieve a certain level of interest -- whether by dint of flowery phrasing, breathlessness or unlikeliness.

For instance, this one that arrived in my box yesterday afternoon:

At the Sober Day USA 2008 event, held at a private residence in Beverly Hills, stars including Paula Abdul, Paris Hilton, the Kardashian sisters, Chris Tucker, Tom Arnold and Larry King all dropped the alcohol and took a "Hint" -- water that is.

Let go on record here: I think Sober Day 2008 is a fine idea. I myself have already logged several sober days in the past few months. They especially tend to follow Mojito Days. But imagine my surprise when I clicked into the e-mail to find Paula Abdul -- yes, this woman -- flacking the benefits of clean living.

And Paris Hilton? Come on, admit it -- you're just playing with our minds now, you crazy PR people. What's next? Jamie Lynn Spears on abstinence or Tara Reid on the perks of diet and exercise?

On second thought, I may just read these things from now on.

By Liz Kelly  | May 20, 2008; 10:42 AM ET
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Comments

Paris and Paula want me sober?

Well, I want Paris and Paula in a naked cage match to the death.

But it's like Mick and Keef say: You can't always get what you want. (But thanks for the link to that pic of Tara's shoes.)

Posted by: byoolin | May 20, 2008 10:53 AM | Report abuse

Tonight One Night Only: Paula Abdul fronting Minor Threat

Posted by: Quintilus Varus | May 20, 2008 10:57 AM | Report abuse

Fine shoes, indeed.

Posted by: LLL | May 20, 2008 11:07 AM | Report abuse

I believe that Paula and Paris were sober for one day. It's the other 364 days of the year I am not so sure about.

Posted by: ep | May 20, 2008 11:19 AM | Report abuse

Too bad LiLo wasn't there, if only to give rublindsey another reason to post.

Posted by: byoolin | May 20, 2008 11:20 AM | Report abuse

But wouldn't Paris and Paula be so much easier to take if I weren't sober?

Posted by: jes | May 20, 2008 11:22 AM | Report abuse

The Sober Day 2008 Chairman Emeritus must be Nick Nolte.

Posted by: yellojkt | May 20, 2008 11:22 AM | Report abuse

damn you, byoolin, you stole my joke.

Posted by: jake e. poo | May 20, 2008 11:25 AM | Report abuse

Did anyone think to invite Gary Busey??

Posted by: Osteph | May 20, 2008 11:30 AM | Report abuse

Keynote speaker: Keith Richards.

Posted by: musicgeek | May 20, 2008 11:40 AM | Report abuse

I only steal from the best, jake.

Posted by: byoolin understates the truth somewhat. | May 20, 2008 11:45 AM | Report abuse

Wow Quint -- is that an "Out of Step" reference?!

Posted by: Liz Kelly | May 20, 2008 11:53 AM | Report abuse

Oh the jokes are too easy aren't they? Kinda like shootin' fish in a barrel.

Chauffer service provided by Rip Torn.

Posted by: Bored @ work | May 20, 2008 12:02 PM | Report abuse

Did we learn NOTHING from the days when Elvis volunteered to help Nixon fight drugs? Clearly, I am in the wrong line of work -- I need to go into PR.

Then again, when else would you see "Paula Abdul, Paris Hilton, the Kardashian sisters, Chris Tucker, Tom Arnold and Larry King"

Larry King?! Did he get lost on his way to the restroom and wind up here?

LARRY: "Tom, I loved your work on Roseanne."
TOM: "Thanks. We acted on the show together well, too. You know, I've done a lot since then, like True Lies with Arnold Schwar--"
LARRY: "Can you help me find the can? Where the h3ll am I anyway?"

Posted by: td | May 20, 2008 12:16 PM | Report abuse

I don't think booze is Paula's problem. It's the bottles and bottles of prescription drugs she's swallowing.

Posted by: Anonymous | May 20, 2008 12:31 PM | Report abuse

leave linsey alone. you guys are just jelous of her beauty and her talent.

Posted by: luvlindsey | May 20, 2008 12:53 PM | Report abuse

I'm impressed, luvlindsey. You were able to construct two coherent sentences. Well done.

Posted by: still | May 20, 2008 12:58 PM | Report abuse

Nobody here is picking on Linsey you fool, we're picking on Lindsay.

Posted by: omni | May 20, 2008 1:03 PM | Report abuse

I this is the face of sobriety....

http://www.hollywood.com/photo/Event_Gallery_Brent_Shapiro_Foundation_Presents_Sober_Day_2008_Carol_Connors_and_Deanna_Lund/5238352/5238460

.....then I wanna stay drunk.

Posted by: Bored @ work | May 20, 2008 1:08 PM | Report abuse

Pass me my drink, Bored because I'm with you. Is it me, or in that photo does Deanna Lund (who?) kinda look like Victoria Beckham in 20-30 years?

Posted by: td | May 20, 2008 1:12 PM | Report abuse

Thanks, Bored. Now I wanna get drunk.

Posted by: byoolin | May 20, 2008 1:13 PM | Report abuse

Although, in her defence, Deanna Lund *is* 71 years old and apparently trying to look like she did when she was on "Land Of The Giants" back in '68.

Posted by: byoolin | May 20, 2008 1:16 PM | Report abuse

LAND OF THE GIANTS?!?!

Byoolin, did you know that or did you look it up? I am in complete awe. . . .

Posted by: td, using more punctuation than normal | May 20, 2008 1:18 PM | Report abuse

Does anyone else assume, as I do, that luvlindsey is a regular reader posing as a TTT just to get a reaction? It was somewhat amusing at first, but the joke's worn really thin. Can we just pretend he/she doesn't exist? You know, like LiLo's career...

Posted by: Wikijen | May 20, 2008 1:23 PM | Report abuse

I suspect that Paula and Paris want us sober so that they and LiLo can have all the booze to themselves.

Posted by: Sasquatch | May 20, 2008 1:28 PM | Report abuse

Paris and Paula BOTH want me? Dang, I must be doing something right!

The mind quails when forced to imagine how much alcohol it would take before I could find either of them, or indeed the other illustrious attendees of Sober Day, even remotely attractive.

Posted by: jaybbub | May 20, 2008 1:34 PM | Report abuse

We always used to make Joe Larent play Fitzhugh.

I knew I knew who Deanna was, but was blanking on why, so I did look it up. But then I remembered.

There are old episodes of LOTG on either Hulu or Fancast, you know... they look EXTREMELY cheesy.

Posted by: byoolin in the Land Of The Giants | May 20, 2008 1:38 PM | Report abuse

The mind quails when forced to imagine how much alcohol it would take before I could find either of them, or indeed the other illustrious attendees of Sober Day, even remotely attractive.

Posted by: jaybbub | May 20, 2008 1:34 PM

*************

Fortunately, jaybbub, we have Shakespeare to guide us:

Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes;
it provokes the desire, but it takes
away the performance: therefore, much drink
may be said to be an equivocator with lechery:
it makes him, and it mars him; it sets
him on, and it takes him off; it persuades him,
and disheartens him; makes him stand to, and
not stand to; in conclusion, equivocates him
in a sleep, and, giving him the lie, leaves him.

Posted by: byoolin | May 20, 2008 1:51 PM | Report abuse

I'm swooning. Byoolin quoted Shakespeare to me. ME! Little ol' jayb! My God I love Celebritology.

As you might imagine, the words that just jumped out at me were "much drink".

:)

Posted by: jaybbub | May 20, 2008 1:58 PM | Report abuse

I act more normal drunk than Paula does sober.

Posted by: possum | May 20, 2008 2:00 PM | Report abuse

leave linsey alone. you guys are just jelous of her beauty and her talent.

Posted by: luvlindsey | May 20, 2008 12:53 PM

I'm impressed, luvlindsey. You were able to construct two coherent sentences. Well done.

Posted by: still | May 20, 2008 12:58 PM

Nobody here is picking on Linsey you fool, we're picking on Lindsay.

Posted by: omni | May 20, 2008 1:03 PM

************************

OK, guys--you do realize luvlindsey is just yanking your chain, right? Quite well. Every day.

Posted by: alex | May 20, 2008 2:08 PM | Report abuse

jaybbub, I confess it was a tossup for a while whether I would quote Shakespeare or Bruce Robinson's "Withnail & I":

We want the finest wines availible to humanity. We want them here and we want them now.

Posted by: byoolin | May 20, 2008 2:14 PM | Report abuse

"Available," I mean.

Posted by: byoolin | May 20, 2008 2:15 PM | Report abuse

Okay folks, which work of Shakespeare contains that well-known passage quoted by Byoolin?

Then there is Henny Youngman's take:

"When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading."

Posted by: Sasquatch | May 20, 2008 3:18 PM | Report abuse

Wow, over an hour passed between comments. Did everyone's bosses just walk in the room?

Posted by: michael | May 20, 2008 3:30 PM | Report abuse

Michael asks:
"Wow, over an hour passed between comments. Did everyone's bosses just walk in the room?"

--------------------------------------------

Michael, didn't you get the message? It's Happy Hour! We're all drinking mojitos at Liz' house.

Posted by: Sasquatch, getting ready to order another round | May 20, 2008 3:52 PM | Report abuse

Alex notes

"OK, guys--you do realize luvlindsey is just yanking your chain, right? Quite well. Every day."
-------------------------------------------
I'd rather that luvlundsey stroke another part of me quite well every day.

Posted by: Sasquatch, still sober | May 20, 2008 3:54 PM | Report abuse

You're all DRINKING??? And after Paula and Paris asked you so kindly not too. How dare you!

I'm jealous.

Posted by: Osteph | May 20, 2008 3:54 PM | Report abuse

I share Osteph's outrage and shall drink at home until blindness or feeling of goodwill overtake me.

Posted by: byoolin is also a great promoter of five - (three!) - three things. | May 20, 2008 4:01 PM | Report abuse

'Squatch, you know there's a possibility that 'luvlindsey' is a, you know, guy?

Posted by: byoolin suggests you look up NAMBLA in the Yellow Pages under "Preverts." | May 20, 2008 4:03 PM | Report abuse

He was a wise man who invented beer. --Plato

Sir, if you were my husband, I would poison your drink. --Lady Astor to Winston Churchill
Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it. --His reply

Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy. --Benjamin Franklin

If you ever reach total enlightenment while drinking beer, I bet it makes beer shoot out your nose. --Deep Thought, Jack Handy

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind.--Humphrey Bogart

Posted by: more good quotes...... | May 20, 2008 4:05 PM | Report abuse

No fair drinking!!! Those of us in a different time zone still have to at least look like we are working.

Posted by: michael | May 20, 2008 4:15 PM | Report abuse

Byoolin asks:

"'Squatch, you know there's a possibility that 'luvlindsey' is a, you know, guy?"

-----------------------------------------
Yeah. Thought about that. I figure that if that's the case, I'd out him and make him kiss my three-day unwashed tuchus.

Posted by: Sasquatch | May 20, 2008 4:17 PM | Report abuse

"I figure that if that's the case, I'd out him and make him kiss my three-day unwashed tuchus.

Posted by: Sasquatch | May 20, 2008 4:17 PM"

So THAT's why they call you Sasquatch!

Posted by: Osteph | May 20, 2008 4:22 PM | Report abuse

"To be considered a true friend and fellow boozer is to me pure honor and glory." - Francois Rabelais, introduction to Garantua and Pantagruel

Posted by: musicgeek | May 20, 2008 4:34 PM | Report abuse

Ugh. Gargantua, that is. Pass the mead.

Posted by: musicgeek | May 20, 2008 4:35 PM | Report abuse

Actually, although Sasquatch claims to be still sober, he was hitting on luvlundsey, rather than luvlindsey.

Luvlundsey might be interested. . .

Posted by: alex | May 20, 2008 4:44 PM | Report abuse

Things just haven't been the same since D.B. Cooper left the neighborhood......

Posted by: Sasquatch | May 20, 2008 4:51 PM | Report abuse

Awww, give Paula a break. She's clearly just high on life.

Posted by: Sappho | May 20, 2008 4:52 PM | Report abuse

You know if you get drunk early enough in the day you can get your hangover out of the way before you go to bed...

Posted by: jes | May 20, 2008 4:55 PM | Report abuse

Sorry it's so lonely out there, Sasquatch. Maybe your other BFF Derek Jeter will stop by for a vist.

Posted by: alex | May 20, 2008 6:57 PM | Report abuse

Ah MacBeth! I just fell a little bit more in love with byoolin

Posted by: Lady McB | May 21, 2008 8:55 AM | Report abuse

Can't you jealous ass people leave Paula alone can't you all find someone e;se to pick on.

Pick on Paris, Lindsey and other skanky girls but leave Paula Alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: funfun1145 | May 22, 2008 12:34 AM | Report abuse

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Apparently those clones is very actively shown on your website . This is just a warning, because original person is not happy about those images and video, rumors and etc., in that way it would be really nice if you try slow down that ''actress'' career development on your website, original Scarlett's parents will really appreciated that. Please do that, do not wait until FBI agent give you a call with questions. Please remember that original family did not authorize any activity with stolen biological materials, no matter what form it was created, it all need to be return back to original family control to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
Original Scarlett is not engage!
Her close friend Serg J.-G.
P.S.
H.R. 534, the Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2003, was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives on February 5, 2003. After discussion, it was passed on February 27 by a vote of 241-155. It now moves on to the Senate for consideration. This bill makes it unlawful for any person or entity to perform or participate in human cloning, or to ship or receive embryos produced by human cloning. The penalties are imprisonment of up to 10 years and fines of $1 million or more.
These now join other nations as diverse as Norway, Australia, and Germany, which had already added cloning for any purpose to their criminal code. And in Germany where it carries a penalty of five years imprisonment they know a thing or two about unethical science.

Posted by: Serg J.-G. | May 25, 2008 2:20 PM | Report abuse

Yall need to leave Paula Abdul alone.
She does not drink or do drugs!
I think yall are jealous of her wonderful talent of singing and acting.
She is also very beautiful!

Posted by: Paula Abdul fan forever! | May 26, 2008 1:23 AM | Report abuse

Oh, Thanks! Really funny. Big ups!

Posted by: BigBan | August 17, 2008 8:52 AM | Report abuse

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