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The Daily Gyro
Updated Daily on Greek Time

April 25, 2005

  • Paris Hilton, whose movie, the remake of “House of Wax,” comes out next week, is reportedly really excited to have children with current boyfriend Greek shipping heir, Paris Latsis. Yes, that’s right, her name is Paris and so is his. That’s pretty creepy. Along with being heir to a shipping fortune, Latsis also has the distinction of being the most famous male with the name Paris since The Iliad. Sources close to Hilton are quoted as saying “She says she wants his baby and that he’s so good-looking that she just knows they’d have beautiful kids.” Hey, that’s all that matters, right? Hilton herself added, “I know having a child will complete my life. I am so great with animals and I know I will be a good parent and I know Paris will be a great father.” Sounds like a future mother of the year candidate to me. We’re just astonished at the knuckleheads that Greek shipping heirs seem to be associating themselves with these days. Perhaps the answer is to get them to hook up with each other, which may be tad less dysfunctional but a whole of a lot more profitable.

 

  • European bookies have Greece a 3/1 favorite to win this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, with its closest competitor being Norway at about 5/1 odds and a host of other countries at 10/1 and 20/1. Cyprus stands at 25/1. Greece and Cyprus have already advanced to the final round to take place in May. By the way, the odds that no one would pay attention to these songs if they weren’t in English stand at 1/1.

 

  • A cloud of dust from Africa covered most of southern Greece early last week, reducing visibility and affecting air and sea transportation. According to meteorologists, this is a regular phenomenon during this time of year. Also explained as a regular phenomenon is the layer of dust on Camera Guy’s camera between March 25th and Easter.

 

  • Is anyone watching NBC’s new apocalyptic miniseries, Revelations, which premiered two weeks ago on Wednesday? (Rebroadcasts are on BRAVO throughout the week as well.) The premise of the show is Christ’s possible rebirth on Earth and the signaling of the final battle between good and evil. In the first two episodes, the main characters received reports that a miracle baby (which could be Christ) was saved off the coast of the Greek island of Patmos. It has made for good watching just for bad Greek accents and watching the producers of this miniseries trying to recreate a Greek port on Patmos without actually going there. But with the characters’ search for the miracle baby moving to Italy, this show may have lost its hook for Greek-Americans.

 



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