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Feb 9
2007
06:23 PM ET
Anna Nicole Smith mattered, but why?
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It was a sad life and a sad death.
Thanks Mandi for posting this. I was really wondering what the behind the scenes considerations were at the mag, because this was a person with no talent, except a talent for notoriety. But she had entertainment value.
I was astonished to see her covered on Nightline. What? And absolutely yes to the comments about the focus on this instead of Iraq.
And I shudder to think about Dannielynn’s future. Is she in the care of that hanger-on lawyer dude? Does he have legal rights as her guardian?
Certainly, no one in Anna Nicole’s family would be a suitable guardian, and god knows how long the paternity nonsense will drag out. What a tragedy.
I liked Anna Nicole when she was a spokesmodel for Guess jeans, which if I recall was the height of her career. It was nice change to have see a plus-size model get that kind of attention.
I don’t get the person below who thinks her life was someone had less meaning because she was a Playboy model and stripper. What if someone decided your life was worthless because you’re acting like a snob? There’s also no evidence that she was a bad mother. Her son actually seemed to be fairly well adjusted. I don’t think it’s even been made clear that he wasn’t actually murdered.
Sorry, I believe that all lives are important, but other than that . . .
Her movie will now be re-vamped as a remake for the murder mystery “CLUE”
Solve the mystery of the glamourous and tragic Anna Nicole Smith’s Death
Players -
Howard K Stern (AKA Mr. Green)
Motive: Helped her fight for her millions from her octagenarian husband and now feels entitled to it all. He managed to bump off the son and if he succeeds in being legal guardian to her daugher, he also has the power of all the funds.
Odds: 3:2
Kimmy (AKA Professor Plum)
Motive: The sapphic devoted personal assistant of grape colored hair was tortured by the love that would never be reciprocated (except that night when Anna was really drunk…. well more than usual).
Odds: 15:1
Bobby Trendy (AKA Miss. Scarlett)
Motive: Looking at his mirror mirror on the wall, he was unable to accept that there was anyone more tragically fabulous than he. The wicked queen was also unable to get another decorating job after Anna Nicole’s house as he grossly overestimated the popularity of polyester satin hot pink walls among the rich and famous.
Odds: 20:1
Larry Birkhead (AKA Colonel Mustard)
Motive: If proven to be the father of Anna Nicole’s daughter, he also has access to her estate, but after seeing the baby girl in the news, he really just wants to raise her right, (no matter what it takes). As everyone else in line for the money is dead though, Larry better watch his back
Odds: 4:1
Sugar Pie (AKA Mrs. White)
Motive: Not enough biscuits, had to wear ridiculous accessories, tired of being tongue-kissed in public by Anna Nicole. Would rather hump furniture and Howard K Stern’s leg.
Odds: 250:1
The People vs. Trimspa and Anna Nicole: (AKA Mrs. Ho)
Motive: If that fat, junkie ‘ho can lose all that weight and look great, and they can’t, some kind of shady process MUST be involved. Therefore Trimspa is guilty of false advertising, and these hungry people won’t stand for it. They will take her out and when the autopsy comes back, they can finally find out what she was REALLY on (so they can rush out and buy it).
Odds: 75:1
Happy Friday!
Mariana
i really don’t know why i feel badly. maybe because it seems like she was one of those people who was two steps forward two steps back. maybe its because people seemed to take so much glee in beating her down and she was just a human being. she didn’t do anything other than live her life, with mistakes to be sure, but who hasn’t made mistakes?
I get your point. But I liked Anna Nicole. Her story is stranger than fiction and full of sadness and tragedy. It is compelling even if there is no made-for-TV lesson at the end. She made the scene early on with a real job as a professional model (not just a Playboy model). She became an early version of Paris Hilton without the trust fund — famous for being famous — made only more substantial, sympathetic and maybe sad because she was also a mother. She made tabloids because of her zany life; made entertainment news because she starred in a reality TV show and was a model; she made national news because of her tragic end. That’s quite an impact on pop culture to be acknowledged whether you were a fan or not. Don’t be so hard on her.
Am I the only one who thinks this post was a little tasteless? Anna was America’s “crazy cousin,” and, whether we believe it was moral or not, her claim to fame was an American dream. “Marry rich. Have fun. Be beautiful. Keep them talking.” These are the things that young girls today aim for. Now, I’m not condoning that by any means, I’m just stating that it’s not hard at all to see why so many feel at loss over her death. Not to mention all of the tough times she had come upon before her untimely death. Whether she had talent or not, she was the embodiment of celebrity. And you honestly don’t get why America would mourn that, PopWatchers?
Anna Nicole lived a classic rags to riches story with enough train wrecks along the way to make it an epic tale!
It’s like Larry King said on a CNN special report yesterday, you wouldn’t believe her story if it was fictional.
First off, it is easy to put prescrption drugs in a blender with a liquid beverage thus creating an overdose. This is Anna Nicole Smith everyone, can you say “Ask Mikey, he’ll try anything”?
There are a million possible answers to what happened. Maybe she was THAT selfish to have taken her own life instead of being a mother to her baby girl? Perhaps Trimspa or someone hired by her ex hubby’s family was paid to in the words of AC/DC, do a “Dirty Deed”? She and Trimspa were being sued by a customer who clamied false advertising. Perhaps she knew that the paternity test would have proven that Stern was not the father?
There are a number of possibilities here. I don’t think that she was a celebrity by any means, and to compare her to Marilyn? Monroe was a better actress than Smith, and was not that stupid. I feel horrible for her mom and her daughter.
seriouisly, who cares…..people die all the time and they go unnoticed, people who are more deserving of the attention than this now dead media-whore. she had no talents, she acted like white trash and when she was alive everyone laughed at her, now that she’s dead everyone wants to be all sad and prop her up on a pedestal?!? So what, people die, move on, and by the way, the person below that said she will be this generation’s Marilyn Monroe?!? What the hell are you smoking?
Yeah, we can smell the hypocrisy here all right. If this online version of EW claims to be “snark-free” regarding this death, you would not ever have printed the photos you have – within what? 1 or 2 hours – after she died. A celebrity for whatever reason in the shallow world of American celebrity stalking – but a human being nonetheless. Just because you happen the have one of the worst pictures of a human being ever taken in your files, does that mean you need to print it when she can no longer defend herself against it? Shame on you.
Are we really at a loss as to why there’s so much attention about her passing? Let’s see…sex, drugs, deaths, & money. It practically writes itself
In truth, no one really cared about Anna Nicole Smith. She passed a few idle moments of the day for men (and some women) who enjoyed seeing her either naked, half naked, drunk, fat, or all of the above. Now that she’s dead we can forgive her of her sins, make a mini series about her “tragic life”, publish a book, re-run her naked pics in Playboy as a “tribute” and generally squeeze out the very last dime from the dim Texan before we move on to the next victim of celebrititus.
She is/was a constant reminder that this is who we are or who we could have been if we also had (have) such an unhappy existence. Greed and personal misery are the two factors that drive many Americans unkind hearts, and I wish people weren’t so mean to others or themselves. Although I did not really care for Anna Nicole or her antics captured on film, I have complete compassion and empathy for any fellow human that is that far from their spirit in life. Sadly, she never discovered her true self, and was led around by others chasing some false and selfish dream of their own. When people are so uneducated and/or so abused by other humans they rarely get/find the chance to pull themselves up from the negativity they experienced throughout their lives. All that are involved—be at peace—be human. Be the change we want to see in the world~Ghandi
as tragic as it is, i remember hearing about it and saying, oh, she died… and then continuing on with the conversation I was having about Microsoft Vista. it was odd, let her family mourn her, i think at the very least she should go out with some dignity. However, i just don’t see the media giving anyone a dignified death when it can be exploited to sell magazines and to get ratings.