NBC hasn't blown anybody away with I Want to Be a Hilton, but the show has been making strides since its first week, when it looked like Kathy Hilton had barely been in front of a television camera. Although the challenges were good, it seemed like Kathy had taken pointers from Paris when it came to her on-camera presence. Luckily for us, the cast of the show has given us plenty of reasons to watch (at least until it conflicts with Big Brother for all of you single tuner Tivo/ non-DVR types). Team Park has won both challenges, partly because they are better, but largely because they are a good team, or at least not as bad as Team Madison. But since Madison features a Vegas showgirl and former beauty pageant winner, it is that guaranteed vortex of self-absorption that keeps us coming back.
So far, the main problem for Madison has been between Yvette, and, well, everybody, but Yvette really doesn't like Latricia the most. She sees Latricia as uncultured and not worthy of even being considered among the rest of the contestants. Latricia sees Yvette and thinks the same thing, but mainly because Yvette is a know-it-all and Latricia can see through Yvette's faux-cultured ways.
First we had everybody learning the basics of etiquette, and last week we had people try on their philanthropic/Hamptons party hats. This week, we learned that the challenge was going to be centered around the world of fine art, and both teams met inside a museum to watch a cellist, a dancer, a singer, and an actor. There was a real sense that things were getting down to business, or at least that is what Brenden would have us believe. He said that things were really getting serious now that there were only 12 people left. Uh, Brenden? You started with 14, and now you have 12. You still have to remove 11 more people to win, and your team hasn't lost. To say that the game has had some sudden shift in focus sounds kind of dumb.
After their little refresher, everybody met in Central Park where Kathy gave them directions. The art challenge was going to be a scavenger hunt. They would be given ten clues and would have three hours to come back with as many clues as they could find. She handed each team their clues, a couple of cell phones, and a couple of maps, and told them to get started.
With all of the clues spread out over such a large part of New York and with the limited time they had, both teams debated whether they should stay together or split up. Park has been doing very well in the challenges, but they are already starting to get annoyed with the people on their teams who are trying to speak up and be leaders, namely Vanessa and Brenden. If they win again, I predict that in the next couple of weeks, they will talk about losing a challenge so they can get somebody off of their team. Anyway, Brenden was being kind of a pussy about splitting up, wondering if it was worth the risk. Rashad, realizing that they had two cell phones along with a couple of maps, didn't wait for the debate and took Jaret with him to start on the first clues.
The clues that everybody received were very Sherlock Holmes-esque type things, with riddles promising a very punny outcome when people figured out what was going on. The clues weren't all that hard, with one requiring somebody to learn how to play chopsticks, which I think you can learn how to play by accident, as long as you a) have access to a piano or keyboard and b)watched Big at least once in your life. Another was to have your picture taken from a bookstore balcony while reading Edgar Allen Poe. As Park was completing that task, the hardest part was finding the book store. Although they were at the right intersection, they were having trouble picking the bookstore, because the clue said it "sounds like a pasta," which they took literally to mean rhymes with something like spaghetti, when it just meant it was Italian. They soon found it (there was really only two to choose from), and realized their dream to find the bookstore Waldentoni would have to wait.
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Comments (16)
I think Kathy was crying because she was afraid Bette Midler was gonna sue.....LOL.
Gotta say last nights show was the best so far.What a train wreck for Yvette and Ann.I'm starting to love Latricia.The look on her face when Yvette claimed to be "on the same level as Kathy" was priceless.(well....maybe on level with Paris,but what happens in vegas stays in vegas until the video is leaked)
After hearing Latricia say she thought Ann was breaking into song looking for a record deal,the twit went and did it again not 2 min. later.Kinda proved the point.
1 of 16 | Posted by Brian | Posted on July 6, 2005 3:31 AM
So I felt like this series was only okay. Passable entertainment. But wow. Tonight's episode was awesome. That was some funny, funny shit. I couldn't even believe it. Hahaha. Brilliant.
2 of 16 | Posted by B-Side | Posted on July 6, 2005 3:49 AM
omg. Ann breaking out into song at the end was absolutely priceless. It was borderline uncomfortable though, and I had to explain to a friend who was visiting WHY I actually watch this stuff. As if it wasn't obvious!!!
3 of 16 | Posted by mellie | Posted on July 6, 2005 6:19 AM
This show has been so funny. I hated that she got rid of 2 people at once. Will there be enough conflict next week to make it interesting?
4 of 16 | Posted by runswithscissors | Posted on July 6, 2005 7:14 AM
Darn. someone came over just before yvette was eliminated. I was hoping to see more of her decieving ways and almost nonexistant skirts.
But to give her credit, Latrica and Jabe were the underdogs in the task at hand. While not the fastest walkers, they got their clues figured out and got the items, AND got home in time.
Yvette was clearly wasting time with her ADD-fueled ballerina practice that the producers decided to fast-forward through.
Yvette has an Amarosa + Maria(apprentice 2) quality to her that I couldn't avoid. Now she's gone. darnit!
Is it me, or is Jackaay really trying hard to dress up nicely, but would ultimately prefer overalls and sneakers? Her outfit seemed out of character.
At least she's giving it a go.
I thought the Park team was the team of screwups, a la Net Worth(less). I guess I'm wrong, since their scorecard is now comparable to Magna's latter tasks.
This all reminded me of the Apprentice 1 task where they ran around town haggling for lowest prices on goods.
5 of 16 | Posted by British | Posted on July 6, 2005 7:29 AM
i thought jackaay was pretty much worthless since all she seems to do is follow someone else's lead and not be as obnoxious as the rest of her team, but she kind of won me over with her comment about wanting to show that a girl from the traailer paark can make it, so i'm kinda rooting for her now. i like jabe too, i was cracking up when he was talking about how the purpose of a cell phone was to communicate new info, he wasn't just calling to see how she was doing. for team park, rashad is the only one who has shown any sense so far, but it's kinda like this year's survivor when it was hard to have opinions about the team that didn't screw up all of the time.
does anyone know where i can find a clip of jackaay on elimidate? might be humorous.
6 of 16 | Posted by ldini79 | Posted on July 6, 2005 8:16 AM
Last night's episode was truly priceless! I must admit to concern about it not being as much of a trainwrech without those two - yet I'm still glad they're gone. The only way I would've been okay w/them staying is if their team had won. I don't want to see any of the other three go yet.
And WTF was up with Yvette walking around NY in a tutu???? That's almost as bas as Ann's breaking out into song. Also, I can't help but wonder when watching these shows, do the liars think people are simply going to sit back and let them lie??? Hello....video cameras!!! sheesh.
I hope next week is as entertaining. This show is FAR better than I anticipated. I can't stand Paris - wouldn't give her show two seconds worth of watching. But so far I do like this one.
7 of 16 | Posted by Christy | Posted on July 6, 2005 11:20 AM
I fast forwarded to the end to see who got voted off and I couldn't believe what a maniac Ann was breaking out in song in the middle of Yvette talking and she just kept going as if it was an underscore. I think Jabe, Latricia and Jakaay were brilliant to vote off Ann, because otherwise it would have been Yvette to go and one of them would be against Ann, or possibly against each other. Very smart...
8 of 16 | Posted by smithie | Posted on July 6, 2005 11:45 AM
Did anyone notice the camera zoom-in when Yvette whispered to Ann to bump Jackaay off?
AFter seeing that, I was expeting some sort of twist, like Anne voting Yvette(instead of the agreed-upon Jackaay), and/or Yvette voting Anne off(instead of the agreed-upon Jackaaaaay).
Every time I see Jackaaaay I think of 227.
9 of 16 | Posted by British | Posted on July 6, 2005 12:54 PM
ann, SHUT UP! i cannot believe that she has burst into song this many times at the most inappropriate moments. i wanted to reach through the screen and STRANGLE her.
10 of 16 | Posted by Stefanie | Posted on July 6, 2005 2:44 PM
I prefer a dish of Borderoni myself. Maybe will see Ann and Yvette at Times Square singing and dancing for nickels and 1/2 of six inch sub coupons for Subway.
11 of 16 | Posted by Sandy | Posted on July 6, 2005 4:37 PM
Jackaay was more interesting as the crazy chick on Elimidate. Madison may get it together now that those two are gone, but I doubt it.
12 of 16 | Posted by 3blue | Posted on July 6, 2005 9:07 PM
Is it just me or does Kathy Hilton look at Jabe like she wants to do him, right there on the elimination couch? She looks very turned on when she looks at him.
Glad to see the 2 freaks gone. That asian bitch's singing would drive me crazy. How come no one ever told her to just shut the hell up?
Yvette was a lying evil worthless skank. I also think her accent was fake. I predict she'll be in PentHouse magazine, spread eagle, soon...
13 of 16 | Posted by KatiesHole | Posted on July 7, 2005 4:05 AM
I have a double take idea: Jabe and Chad Micheal Murry. Come on! Am I the only one that has noticed?
14 of 16 | Posted by tv freak | Posted on July 7, 2005 10:23 AM
yeah, but Jabe is hot and Chad Michael Murray is an ugly lion cub!
15 of 16 | Posted by Jess | Posted on July 7, 2005 11:40 AM
RE: Yvette; does anyone else remember seeing her on one of those shows on WE network, "Single in Las Vegas"? I remember one episode where she participated in a contest to see who could be the sexiest while riding a mechanical bull; she was just trying so hard, and lost! She also seemed overly desperate to meet and snag a guy, insisting talking to men who did not look very interested in her...
16 of 16 | Posted by Bea | Posted on July 7, 2005 6:33 PM