Paris to play Zsa Zsa

Paris Hilton’s practicing her slapping. Face slapping, that is. The wealthy heiress, says Sky News, is set to star as the ultimate starlet Zsa Zsa Gabor in a telemovie. The link? (besides the fact that have analogous reps) Gabor was married to Paris Hilton's great-grandfather Conrad Hilton. Not unlike the young nympho that’ll be playing her, Zsa Zsa Gabor was more famous as a whimsical celebrity sex symbol than an actress. The actress, whose acting credits include “Moulin Rouge” (1951) and “Touch of Evil” (1959), garnered headlines when, in 1989, she slapped a Beverly Hills policeman who pulled her over for a traffic violation. The telemovie will no doubt track Gabor’s early days – back when she was Miss Hungary in 1936, and played the villainess Minerva in the final episode of the 1960s TV series “Batman” – to saying her vows with Conrad Hilton, and giving that copper the surprise of his life. Yet another remake has squeezed out sausage-like from the always-oiled retool machine. “Piranha”, the classic 1978 B-effort about a bunch of college kids that are attacked be a fleshing eating fish in a lake, is getting the once-over by French film company Wild Bunch. Chuck Russell, of “The Mask” fame, is writing. The film, budgeted at under $24 million, will shoot in the states next March of April.[Moviehole]