Paris Hilton a Valentine’s Day Hottie
Gregg Goldstein

NEW YORK—The Paris Hilton vehicle “The Hottie and the Nottie” will hit theatres just in time for Valentine’s Day.
Indie distributor Regent Releasing has picked up all North American rights to Tom Putnam’s romantic comedy and set a February 8 release in ten major markets around the country.
The heiress and former inmate plays Cristabel Abbott, who’s been eyed since the first grade by an obsessed Nate Cooper (Joel David Moore). To win her affections, Nate is forced to find a boyfriend for her less-than-beautiful friend June Phigg (Christine Lakin).
Hilton previously starred in the 2005 horror remake “House of Wax,” although audiences reportedly cheered when her character was killed.
Meanwhile, a charitable organization on Friday denied that a planned trip to Rwanda it had organized for hotel heiress Paris Hilton, and which has been postponed, would have been filmed as part of a reality television show.
Earlier this month, Hilton told Newsweek magazine that she was going to Rwanda to change her life and make a mark on the world following a stint in jail stemming from a drunken driving incident.
In the story, Newsweek quoted Scott Lazerson, the founder of charity Playing for Good that planned the trip, that the trip was to be filmed in hopes of selling it as part of a reality show called “The Philanthropist.”
A spokesman for Playing for Good said Lazerson was no longer associated with the Spanish-based charity, the group never planned to tape Hilton’s trip in order to sell a reality TV show and nor was Hilton linked to any such reality TV show.
The charity said on Thursday the trip was being postponed due to what it called a “restructuring” in its organization.