A new tell-all tries to explain the Hilton myth.  Arts,
entertainment, and more. Nov. 17 2006 6:28 PM  Where Do Hiltons
Come From?  A new tell-all tries to explain.   House of Hilton.
We are going to have to accept Paris Hilton as a subject worthy
of contemplation, so let's start at the bottom with a new book
titled House of Hilton (Crown). It says here on the dust jacket
that the book's best-selling author, Jerry Oppenheimer, "has
been writing definitive biographies of American icons for twenty
years," and only the blessedly ignorant can doubt the truth of
the statement. You might say that the eight books Oppenheimer
has written or co-written are trashy, vapid, scurrilous,
comprehensively nasty hatchet jobs—and you can rest assured that
people already have—but they do shape the bizarre fantasies of
tabloid culture into definitive monuments.  House of Hilton—its
full and foaming subtitle reads From Conrad to Paris: A Drama of
Wealth, Power, and Privilege—takes its place next to
Oppenheimer's Front Row: Anna