So 73-year-old Larry King is asking 26-year-old Paris Hilton if it was "gross" to be strip-searched in jail, to which the socialite replies, "Yeah, if it's in front of somebody you don't know."

I've seen the video, Paris Whitney. I know exactly what you mean.

After Paris' father reportedly shopped an interview to the networks for a cool million and they rejected after some mild pressure, Hilton talked with the world's easiest question-asker on Wednesday night to what I'm sure will be poor reviews.

Paris seemed aloof. She's not genuine. She hasn't learned her lesson. We'll hear it all over the next 24 hours, and I'm hear to preach the gospel: Cut this woman a break already!

What stood out to me about the hour Paris spent with Larry, a clause I'm pained to write in recognition of the fact that I just wasted an hour of my life, was what a good soul the heiress seems to be.

No, I don't think she's an intellectual. No, I don't think she will go on to save the world. No, I don't think I can identify a specific talent she has, even having watched the aforementioned movie ... but, no, I don't think she's a bad person, even if the only reason she's famous is because her family is rich and photographers started following her around at some point after her 16th birthday.

I think she's likely a genuinely nice person, probably in fact a nicer, better person than half the folks in Hollywood. The sense I get is that there is an innocence about her, a dipsy, giggly girliness if you will, that has kept her all these years off hard substances and out of real trouble.

Sure, she went to jail for 23 days, but it was more than five times the time most people spend in the pokey for the same thing. Furthermore, the DUS she got on top of her DUI was relative to a DUI in which she blew only a .08.

That's one, stiff drink at her weight. Not wise, but not the worst DUI offense in the world. In fact, it's the lightest one could have.

Nevertheless, Paris says she's learned a lesson and wants to start contributing something to society. She read notes to Larry, notes she had written in jail, and they were writings that, in my opinion, were purposeful time filler.

At one point, Larry asked Paris if she had any other notes she wanted to read, and the time-kill in his voice, to me, was about to hit the extreme.

Want to read any more notes? Want a sandwich? Do you like puppies?

Seriously, Larry asked her at one point if she wanted to get married, and I swear it sounded like he was proposing. However, in Larry's defense, he did ask some of the mundane questions I wanted to know about in the beginning of their hour together.

What was your cell like? What did you eat? Where did you go to the bathroom?

But, after 20 minutes, it was clear this duo was going to be ad-libbing their way into Thursday's social and entertainment headlines.

"Does Lindsey Lohan have problems?" Larry asked.

"You think?" Paris asked, followed by other words that made me think she didn't mean to utter those two words together. It was still quite the serendipitous answer.

Having lived in Dallas for a decade, I socialized with people not of Paris' wealth but of her kind of ditzy mentality. These were not stupid women by any means; some of them owned companies. However, they had a big don't-get-it cloud above them, following them around, with regard to what's important in life.

My buddy Danny and I used to joke that this type of person was "starring in their own movie."

To a certain extent, Paris Hilton has spent her entire adulthood thus far starring in her own feature film. However, although I'm slightly dumber for having watched the Larry King-Paris Hilton interview, I came away with what I believe is an absolute fact.

Paris Hilton, stunningly enough, is a good soul.