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What They Saw in Her

No sooner had we posted Paris Hilton's frantic money-making plans for the year than this new item came across our desk. In the futuristic musical thriller Repo! The Genetic Opera, cofinanced by the makers of Saw, Hilton will perform numbers ranging from rock to opera. Opera! The setting for the genre mashup is 2056, when a plague has nearly destroyed the human race and survival is dependent on getting an expensive organ transplant. Hilton plays a daughter of the villainous organ transplant magnate, played by Paul Sorvino, who, by the way, can sing like you wouldn't believe. Anyway, is the irony intended? Darren Lynn Bousman, who directed all of the Saw movies, has spent years working on this movie version of an opera created with screenwriter-composers Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich. "This movie has become my life," he said. "I have auditioned at least 30 actresses for this role – Paris came in and owned it. She is this role." "We saw many actresses for the role," added coproducer Carl Mazzocone, "and Paris sang it better than all of them." Whoa. (Variety; t/y Lydia)

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