{"id":885,"date":"2006-04-04T21:46:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-05T01:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=885"},"modified":"2006-04-04T21:46:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-05T01:46:00","slug":"to-paris-with-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/?p=885","title":{"rendered":"To Paris with Love"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Globe &#038; Mail comes what can only be described as a delayed April Fool&#8217;s Day Joke:<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Indian director wants Paris Hilton as Mother Teresa<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><span style=\"font-family:times new roman;\">Thiruvananthapuram, India &#8212; An Indian movie director said yesterday he hopes to persuade Paris Hilton to play the role of Nobel laureate and prospective Catholic Saint, Mother Teresa, in an upcoming film.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Her features resemble Mother Teresa,&#8221; director T. Rajeevnath told AFP from the southwestern coastal state of Kerala. The filmmaker said Hilton is on his short list after a computer-generated image showed a close facial match between the hotel heiress and the Albanian-born nun.<\/p>\n<p>Mother Teresa, who died in 1997, worked among the poor in the teeming slums of Calcutta, with the Missionaries of Charity. She was beatified by Pope John Paul in 2003.<br \/>&#8220;A meeting with Paris Hilton is scheduled for the end of April,&#8221; Rajeevnath said.<\/p>\n<p>Hilton&#8217;s previous movie experience includes appearing in a home-made sex video made by a former boyfriend that appeared on the Internet, and parts in several B-movies. The blond socialite also starred in the U.S. reality-television show The Simple Life. AFP<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That has got to be one of the most bizarre uses of &#8220;previous movie experience&#8221; ever&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today&#8217;s Globe &#038; Mail comes what can only be described as a delayed April Fool&#8217;s Day Joke: Indian director wants Paris Hilton as Mother Teresa Thiruvananthapuram, India &#8212; An Indian movie director said yesterday he hopes to persuade Paris Hilton to play the role of Nobel laureate and prospective Catholic Saint, Mother Teresa, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.calgarygrit.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}