Wellllllllll, this has never happened before: some Paris Hilton news that actually interests us.

Hilton, she of the sex tapes and the drunken club appearances and the jail time (and the Dubai hotelier fawning), has signed on to star in a "companion piece" to Todd Solondz' 1998 masterwork, Happiness. Quite a leap for an actress accustomed to horror operas and grainy stag flicks.

Solondz is a true artist, and (along with his premiere Welcome to the Dollhouse), Happiness, which stars Philip Seymour Hoffman and Dylan Baker, is one of the best dark comedies of the past decade. Watching it, you almost forget that it's awash in the semen of both grown men and young boys. (It would be crude and easy of us to suggest that fact is what helped sell Hilton on the sequel, so we'll not.)

What a delight it will be to see how Solondz goes about using Hilton's, uh, talents?

After the jump, some of our favorite Happiness moments. (NSFW!!!!)

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