The Hills Have Dull Eyes

Brody Jenner denies in Seventeen that he's a serial skirt chaser.  “I’m not a Casanova,” he states, “I just happen to have a lot of friends who are girls.”  While we imagine most of the magazine’s adolescent readership might equate Casanova with actor Heath Ledger, who portrayed the Italian lothario in a recent film bomb, the notorious nymphomaniac (Casanova, not Ledger), we’d like to point out, was a man of other interests and talents.  In fact the Venetian-born Casanova--an adventurer and author--is now regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18^th century.  But perhaps there is reason to compare the two men:  Like Casanova, who consorted with European royalty and was well known to thinkers and artists such as Voltaire, Goethe, and Mozart, Jenner, who has made his celebrity bones through the reality television show "The Hills," has also surrounded himself with powerful minds, such as co-stars Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag, and Spencer Pratt.