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Yet another sign that we are living in the equivalent of a ten car pileup on the interstate.

Paris Hilton.
Airs on Friday, November 4 at 10:00pm ET

Profile of the beautiful hotel heiress who became so famous so fast that a new term - "celebutante" - had to be coined to describe her. We look at how Paris danced, partied, and dated her way to fame while sitting atop a financial empire that boasts clothing and perfume lines. Includes the story

of the widely distributed video tape showing Paris making love to ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon and highlights from her hit reality TV series, The Simple Life.

Fortunately, there's still a scribe or two keeping notes.

"This place is eating itself alive," he said in an interview a few days before the Dayton show. "I like applying the entropic principle from science to this country, this civilization. I think it is slowly disintegrating."

"For me, it isn't the fact of the disintegration so much as the act of it, watching it, seeing it," he added. "It is a freak show. And in this country you get a front-row seat. And some of us have notebooks."