Oh how I miss Tara Reid!!

Once upon a time there was this nice little lush named Tara Reid.

She was an actress (allegedly) but she was best known for being a slight and slightly dim blonde who had the habit of enjoying a cocktail at the odd red carpet event. For a short time, E! Entertainment channel paid her to take her act on the road, billed it as a travel show, and called it Taradise.

The show, E! hoped would encourage world travel among 20 and 30 somethings, showed
beautiful scenery and exotic locales. Tara seemed to enjoy jetting off to report on the haps in Athens, Mykonos, Pamplona, Monaco, St. Tropez, Cyprus, Sardinia, Paris and London. Tara also seemed to enjoy the cocktails. LOTS OF COCKTAILS. By the end of each episode, she was visually tipsy and there were more than a few instances where her commentary was so slurred, a written transcript and the Rosetta Stone could not have helped decipher it. That would have worked if E! had marketed it more as a reality show where watching Tara was like viewing a train wreck videoed from multiple international locations. Instead, Taradise was viewed as a travel show without substance(although some will say not without substances) and after airing ten episodes of a boozy Tara, E! pulled the plug on this floating open bar, where a passport required.

The funny thing is in light of Lohan's professionalism being questioned in light of partying habits, Anna Nicole's paternity battles, Brittany sans knickers, Paris and Nicole and their DUI run ins, Lohan flashing her bikini wax, Anna Nicole's death, and Brittany shaving her head, I really miss that acutely, alcoholic, accidental boob flashing jet setter. How I miss her wide eyed (pie-eyed) innocence. She wasn't really sinful, she'd simply had a skin full.

And as another weekly issue of US and OK! hit the stands replete with all the gorey details of the weekend escapades of Hip Hollywood, I miss Tara more and more.