Paris Hilton

as mother theresa?????

Published on April 5, 2006 By Charissa Kaschel In Entertainment

I couldn't believe my eyes when i read the following article. Paris Hilton as a biopic for Mother Theresa? it just seems...... wrong. Mother Theresa who is an upstanding roll model for everyone including young woman today, played by one of the trashiest socialites today. It would be as much in poor taste as casting Brittany Spears or Christian Aguilera. Why couldn't he have chosen someone either who has yet to enter the entertainment scene and given them a big break, or cast someone who is a bit more reputable than Paris Hilton. Maybe I'm completely missing something, but it just seems in very poor taste.

http://movies.yahoo.com/mv/news/fs/20060404/114417608000.html

Comments

Brandon Blair

on Apr 05, 2006

hey you,
that is wack that she wouls even be considered in the same thought as mother theresa, I think paris is lets say not all there and its weird what our society comes up with but thats my comments i totally agree with you though

bakerstreet

on Apr 05, 2006

"Mother Theresa who is an upstanding roll model for everyone including young woman today, played by one of the trashiest socialites today."

Eh, you might wanna look into Mother Theresa a bit more. She and Paris Hilton are on two opposite ends of the moral spectrum, granted, but Mother Theresa was no saint, even if they make her one. There are a lot of myths about the woman that can be easily defeated if you read about what she actually did in her life.

You'd be hard put to find catholics that would want to live in the world she'd make, especially women. Don't look at what people say she did, look at what she actually did. I'd most certainly have no problem with Paris Hilton playing her, I'm not a fan of either of them.

Ionolast

on Apr 05, 2006

Mother Theresa was no saint,

She was never in two places at the same time, what she?

amandapearl2

on Apr 05, 2006

I don't have issues with Paris playing Mother Theresa so much as I have an issues with Paris Hilton acting. That girl can barely speak English.

Charissa Kaschel

on Apr 05, 2006

I realize she was no saint, but she must have done some good things since they're wanting to make a film about her. Even so, I have issue with someone so trashy playing the part of someone who has done enough good things even if she was no saint.

" I don't have issues with Paris playing Mother Theresa so much as I have an issues with Paris Hilton acting. That girl can barely speak English."

haha I didn't think of that. perhaps that's the whole point so we won't have to understand her

Dr Guy

on Apr 05, 2006

but Mother Theresa was no saint, even if they make her one. There are a lot of myths about the woman that can be easily defeated if you read about what she actually did in her life.

To sell a book, people will do anything. And there will never be a saint again. The trash that you read is just that. Trash. She was a hard task master, but the allegations are beyond reason, or reality. It is a shame that we now live in a trash society that only lionizes drug addicts and waste of human flesh. While trashing the ones that devoted their life to helping others.

Move over Sodom and Gomorah. We are here.

bakerstreet

on Apr 05, 2006

" I realize she was no saint, but she must have done some good things since they're wanting to make a film about her. "

Not necessarily, maybe they want to tell the true story about her.

as for your venom, doc, no one has to make anything up. You can just look at what she said and what she did. She was a scary antique from a time when the catholic church was full of people who scourged themselves and told the poor that life was supposed to suck, and that their suffering was a gift from God. She wasn't interested in helping people out of poverty, her lesson to them was that their suffering and poverty was a sacrament.

Like I said, you don't have to read Hitchins book to know the reality of Mother Theresa. In her words:

"I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people."

Charissa Kaschel

on Apr 05, 2006

"She was a scary antique from a time when the catholic church was full of people who scourged themselves and told the poor that life was supposed to suck, and that their suffering was a gift from God. She wasn't interested in helping people out of poverty, her lesson to them was that their suffering and poverty was a sacrament."

I guess i don't see how her helping people accept their lot in life when they are in a place where they probably won't improve makes her hellish. If anything, I think that's one of our biggest problems today. We aren't willing to accept where we are in life, and while yes we should yearn to better ourselves, most of the nations that she worked in, bettering yourself meant maybe getting a meal each day if that. most of which she helped to provide. She may not be a saint, but she did do much to help those around her, however she was human and because she is human, she had faults. And one might find more fault do their belief system and how her beliefs might not measure up to theirs, but that doesn't mean she didn't help a lot of people.

Dr Guy

on Apr 05, 2006

as for your venom, doc,

Ah, now the truth is venom. Thank you for showing me the way.

bakerstreet

on Apr 05, 2006

No, you misunderstand. Her order accepted hundreds of millions of dollars in donations, and it was her choice NOT to help people out of poverty. The people who were under her care were purposely kept in poverty, and told that their suffering bettered the world. She ran a cult, frankly.

Again, take the time to read about her. Read about the conditions in her hospital (which she referred to as the "house of the dying"), when she was treated in hospitals in Europe. Read about what it meant to be a member of her order, and how she felt about poverty. You can't make those things match up with what the average person thinks she did.

She raised untold millions of dollars for the Catholic church, and then denied the vast majority of it to the poor. only 7% of the 2.6 million she raised in Britain in a single year went to her charity, and the rest went to the vatican coffers. She was a vatican fundraiser who gave people the impression the money was going to the poor. In reality, she felt their poverty was good and necessary. I would suggest anyone who wants more than 'image' take the time to read about her.

"Oh, now the truth is venom. Thank you for showing me the way."

You don't serve truth by believing lies when the truth is right out in the open. You don't have to guess about Mother Theresa, you only have to choose between the fictional character and the real person.

Charissa Kaschel

on Apr 05, 2006

well I didn't really write this article to debate Mother Theresa's credibility. The only thing I was debating was the fact that one of the trashiest women in the US in the entertainment business is going to portray someone who whether the American Public is misguided about or not still did serve millions of people. And perhaps, we are misguided about MIss Hilton also, but she has definately been more public about her "trashiness" than I definately need to know about. I know that men are very fond of miss hilton do to her loveliness and I will not contest that she is pretty. I suppose it's a good way to get guys to see the movie. Now, that may seem like a low blow and it probably is, so we just won't go there. BUT please do keep in mind that whether or not she was a saint was not the issue. perhaps,. my issue is more how one can get away with being so publically raunchy and trashy and have it be acceptable because one is wealthy. Perhaps I ought to write a new article.

Charissa

bakerstreet

on Apr 05, 2006

No, I'm not disputing Paris Hilton's trashiness, not in the least. Paris's previous movie *cough* proved that. I'm just saying that, being the father of a daughter myself, I'd consider them both about even as role models.

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