If ever there was a perfect time for Paris Hilton to overhaul her image, this is it. With Britney Spears busy losing custody of her kids and Lindsay Lohan trying to salvage what's left of her career, there's little to stop the remaining member of the trio once delightfully dubbed the Three Bimbos of the Apocalypse from fulfilling her post-pokey promise to "raise awareness for so many great causes."

So, what will it be? A big charity push, perhaps in conjunction with, oh, let's say a series of morale boosting visits to injured troops (after all, she already has the outfit).

Nah, 'cause that would be hard and stuff.

For Paris, charity apparently begins at home, or least at a home away from home, namely New York hot spot Marquee, where she showed her benevolence this week by gracing club-goers with her prowess on the stripper pole.

In video obtained by TMZ.com, the attention-seeking starlet can be seen wriggling up and down the unhygienic steel post as a crush of onlookers hold up cameras and cell phones to capture her every bump and grind.

And while we didn't think it possible to feel sympathy for an inanimate rod, we believe if it could have expressed emotion, it would have channeled Lucy from "Peanuts" by crying out, "I have Paris germs! Get some hot water! Get some disinfectant! Get some iodine!"

As is standard operating procedure for a Hilton club appearance, the DJ played her quickly forgotten ditty "Stars Are Blind," which she warbled along to while continuing to show off her exotic dancer skill set.

"She couldn't seem to get enough of the pole," a spy snipes to the London Sun. "Perhaps it brought back fine memories of her time behind bars."

Hilton, who was in the Big Apple to shill for her new perfume Can-Can, eventually ditched Marquee and headed for Bungalow 8 before capping off the night at a pal's digs, finally returning to her hotel around 7 a.m., according to TMZ.

Despite her dedication to deigning the little people with her presence, it's not quite the philanthropic leaf-turning she talked about with Larry King after her release from jail.

"I realized that there's a lot more important things in my life. And there's a lot more things to do. And I'm frankly sick of it," she said of her party girl lifestyle. "You know, I've been going out for a long time now. And yes, it's fun, but it's not going to be the mainstay of my life anymore."

As she pointed out, "I'm 26 years old. I'm an adult, and I am -- I have to just grow up and to be a more responsible -- a role model ... there's just so much more to me than what people think."

(Indeed. Like, we had no idea Hilton could lip-synch and polish a pole with her posterior at the same time.)

In Paris' defense, she will soon be making a major personal sacrifice by ceding the spotlight to Nicole Richie on Sunday while serving as a co-host for her sometime BFF's baby shower.

In Touch believes it has procured the actual save-the-date e-mail for the celebration, which is being arranged by go-to celebrity party planner Mindy Weiss.

According to the invite, Richie's mom Brenda and sister Sophia will host "with love," along with "loving friends" Paris and Masha Gordon.

Joel Madden and Nicole Richie arrive at Sydney Airport on Oct. 10.

Meanwhile, has Nicole, whose once concave belly is refreshingly swollen with the fruit of Joel Madden's loins, quietly undergone the very altruistic attitude makeover Paris has so publicly touted?

So says Us Weekly, which reports shower guests have been asked to donate baby gifts -- cribs, strollers, blankets, stuffed animals, etc. -- to the newly established Richie Madden Children's Foundation, which the expectant parents set up to assist needy moms.

As one of the foundation's first acts, it will reportedly donate 100 Mom-to-Be kits to the Los Angeles Free clinic.

While Nicole's pals may not have the pleasure of seeing her unwrap boutique-bought tot items, they can at least take comfort in seeing her put some food down her gullet.

The menu for the shower is said to include some of her fave foods, with which she's presumably become reacquainted while awaiting the stork, including coconut shrimp, lobster, lemon-pepper chicken, fruit, cake and sushi (raw-fish free, we hope).

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