Just as things were starting to look really bleak for Britney Spears (even the AP was drawing up her obit), a savior came down from on high to put the world’s fears at rest—once and for all.

“I think everything's going to be OK,” Paris Hilton said of Ms. Spears.

Ms. Hilton, who spent last weekend at the Sundance Film Festival, sent the singer some saving graces in the form of good old fashioned spin. “She's such a sweet girl when I'm alone with her; she's a completely different person than she's made out to be,” Ms. Hilton, 26, told Us whilst in the majestic climes of Utah's Rocky-Mountain high. But she didn’t stop there. It seems Ms. Hilton really cherishes her friendship with Ms. Spears, 26. “And I love her; I think she's very sweet and has a big heart. She's amazing,” she said, adding: “I just want her to be happy.”

On Friday, Jan. 18, Paris Hilton hosted a private dinner party for her film The Hottie and the Nottie at the Turning Leaf Lounge, one of many venues along Main Street that had been rented and revamped by Hollywood party planners. Across the street, a quaint sports bar called Doolan’s bore a temporary new maroon awning emblazoned with the word Stereo, after the New York nightclub.

Inside the party, where a giant wine bottle hung from the wall, Ms. Hilton was meeting a few select members of the press.  read more »

Last night I had my one night out experiencing the craziness that is Main Street in Park City. The entire slushy street was filled with people -- think Times Square at rush hour -- lining up outside of various parties. As my group approached the after-party sponsored by Hypnotiq for Be Kind Rewind, directed by Michel Gondry and starring Jack Black, a mob scene broke out on the sidewalk a few doors down. Who could it be? Hysteria grew, camera phones flashed. The answer? Ms. Paris Hilton. "I saw your tape, Paris!" one hopeful youngster cried out.  read more »

Paris Hilton once said: “All you have to do in life is go out with your friends, party hard and look twice as good [as the woman next to you.]” But according to an article in today’s Times, it’s now far more complicated. A new social era has dawned, one in which first impressions are often made in a digital context.

Facebook, anyone?

For most members of the behemoth online networking community, high time for silly, drunken or even unattractive profile pictures ends sometime around college graduation. Hitting the mean streets of adulthood can be brutal, after all, and putting your best face forward can—for better or worse—prove rewarding both socially and professionally.  read more »

Whoa! It seems the Style staff at the Times are wholly unimpressed with the way things turned out in 2007—a year they already deemed a disaster in fashion. Yesterday’s paper featured an article proclaiming 2007 the year when an overwhelming number of celebrity careers hit the skids.

To be sure, over the last 12 months we witnessed—mouth often agape, eyes yet wider—some doozeys coming out of Celebrityville. Specifically, the Times points to the following Hollywood hiccups: Britney Spears lost her mind, hair and much of her credibility; Donald Trump and Rosie O’Donnell waged war over the airwaves; Lindsay Lohan was arrested and sent to rehab; Paris Hilton went to prison; Don Imus spat racist slurs and was fired; Anna Nicole Smith died after eating lots of pills; David Hasselhoff fell from basking in Baywatch glory to drunken bathroom embarrassment; Jamie Lynn Spears, 16, got knocked up; and, of course, 2007 was the year when Alec Baldwin left his daughter that scary, violent voicemail heard ‘round the world.  read more »

What better way to lighten the Monday load than with a little celebrity lifestyle coaching from Patrick Wanis, PhD? He’s just miraculously survived an invasion of legion New Yorkers in town for Art Basel Miami. Despite all that distraction, he offered up a gargantuan platter of super-chewy goss. It’s The Top Ten Celebrity Meltdowns of 2007!

We’ve included his list, which Mr. Wanis released only to The Daily Transom, but we decided to focus first on El Numero Uno: the biggest celebrity train wreck of the year—at least in Mr. Wanis’ view. And you’ll likely never guess who it is. (Hint: It’s not Britney Spears. It’s not Lindsay Lohan. And it sure ain’t Paris Hilton.)  read more »

As it happens, Paris Hilton’s presence at Art Basel last weekend really did boggle more than a few minds. One guest at a party held on Saturday night at Casa Casuarina, the former Versace Mansion on Miami Beach’s Ocean Drive, told The Daily Transom that she was acting rather strangely at the affair.

“The interesting thing is just how insecure and socially inept she is,” the eyewitness told us after the party. “She walked around the garden most of the night pretending she was speaking to someone on her cell phone.” Apparently, Ms. Hilton, 26, barely put her bejeweled Sidekick down the entire evening, even when she was quasi-mingling with her fellow partygoers. Our source added that the hotel-chain heiress was trailed all evening by “a security guard and some weird guy in a strange Halloween-style hat.”