Time Magazine Cover: July 19, 1963 (from the Time archives)
B. Cooper and I have great minds that think alike. I had this prepared to post on Saturday morning. This cover, which we saw in the episode, looks a lot more like the Connie we see than the formal portrait does.
I don’t know what to say about Paris Hilton. I know her mother was a starlet of some kind. I think it’s safe to say that in many cases, the apple can fall very, very, very far from the tree.
He didn’t leave much to his heirs upon his death. He intended the Foundation and the Catholic Church to get the majority of his fortune, which angered his son Barron. Barron wanted more, and sued to get it.
Barron is the grandfather of the famous-for-nothing Hiltons we know and don’t much like, in this generation. There’s your bad apple.
Chelcie Ross has always been a talented actor. If there is justice playing Conrad "Call me Connie" Hilton will kick the Ross career into over-drive. Indeed he does look like Connie and MM enhanced that look.
It is marvelous to compare the undated formal portrait of Hilton with the July 1963 TIME cover. Elsewhere online there is the 1949 TIME cover following Hilton buying the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. What I notice is how little Conrad Hilton appeared to change in those cover drawings. In 1948 and 1949 I did meet the real Conrad Hilton a few times. He then looked very much like the 1949 TIME cover, but having seen him in April 1963 at the Beverly Hilton my impression then and now is that the 1963 cover was an "idealized" representation. That works fine for Chelcie Ross, who is more slender than Mr. Hilton was by 1963.
Also, I did a spit-take when the woman on the phone introduced herself to Don as "Miss Wakeman." For many years Olivia Wakeman was Conrad Hilton's personal secretary. Without resorting to Joan tactics, she fiercely protected Hilton's time. In 1954, when I was promoted to a position with a secretary, I made sure I was assigned my own "Olivia Wakeman"!
Yeah, they cast Connie so freaking well.
An interesting thing about Connie: he was Norwegian and Catholic. There goes my bitchfest. Also, if wikipedia is to be believed:
According to [Zsa Zsa] Gabor's book, One Lifetime Is Not Enough, her pregnancy resulted from her being raped by Conrad Hilton.
#2 While they were married, that is.
Wow, MM Connie looks so much like the real deal!
Too bad Paris Hilton was spawned from Conrad. He'd be mortified.
I don’t know what to say about Paris Hilton. I know her mother was a starlet of some kind. I think it’s safe to say that in many cases, the apple can fall very, very, very far from the tree.
The best thing Conrad Hilton ever did was this:
http://www.hiltonfoundation.org/main.asp?id=38&side=1
He didn’t leave much to his heirs upon his death. He intended the Foundation and the Catholic Church to get the majority of his fortune, which angered his son Barron. Barron wanted more, and sued to get it.
Barron is the grandfather of the famous-for-nothing Hiltons we know and don’t much like, in this generation. There’s your bad apple.
Yes, but the family sued and got a lot more money from the estate. The Foundation and Church got far less than he wanted them to.
Wow, Chelcie Ross nailed it!
Chelcie Ross has always been a talented actor. If there is justice playing Conrad "Call me Connie" Hilton will kick the Ross career into over-drive. Indeed he does look like Connie and MM enhanced that look.
It is marvelous to compare the undated formal portrait of Hilton with the July 1963 TIME cover. Elsewhere online there is the 1949 TIME cover following Hilton buying the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. What I notice is how little Conrad Hilton appeared to change in those cover drawings. In 1948 and 1949 I did meet the real Conrad Hilton a few times. He then looked very much like the 1949 TIME cover, but having seen him in April 1963 at the Beverly Hilton my impression then and now is that the 1963 cover was an "idealized" representation. That works fine for Chelcie Ross, who is more slender than Mr. Hilton was by 1963.
Also, I did a spit-take when the woman on the phone introduced herself to Don as "Miss Wakeman." For many years Olivia Wakeman was Conrad Hilton's personal secretary. Without resorting to Joan tactics, she fiercely protected Hilton's time. In 1954, when I was promoted to a position with a secretary, I made sure I was assigned my own "Olivia Wakeman"!