Apparently, “The Hangover” – a movie about binge drinking, blacking out, and wreaking havoc on your and others’ lives – represents the new American Dream.

From Monday’s New York Times:

Casting Yourself in a Wild, Forgotten Night

Nut graf:

[I]n a Web promotion reminiscent of the movie, Hotels.com is encouraging people to cast themselves in their own hotel misadventures by substituting their faces and the faces of friends for those of actors in provocative videos.

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A site by Hotels.com encourages people to substitute their faces and the faces of friends for those of actors in videos that nod to “The Hangover.” Some include celebrities like Vanilla Ice.

Celebrities like Vanilla Ice? Seriously?

Plug the rapper/home improvement television personality into the Googletron, and you get this.

Party like it’s 1990, you Hangover wannabes.