- Not main page local news, no. But I’m aware of it through CNN and the like.
- I have a … fairly intimate knowledge of Playmates of the '90s, so that would be a “Oh Yes!” from South Africa.
As a next-country neighbour we have had the same influence. I do remember that when the enourmous H&M posters of Anna Nicolein skimpy underwear hang everywhere, there was quite an uproar: on one side the ultrafeminists were complaining and on the other male motorists were crashing in the cities. Fun times 
You’re in Norway? Didn’t you guys pass a glorious piece of legislation called “Lex Smith” that regulated how - hum - attractive billboards could be if they were to be visible to motorists?
1.- Me not look at Newspapers in German, sorry. The Spanish ones I follow online may have had a note somewhere. I imagine Hola and especially Sorpresa! (with only one !) will have articles.
2.- Blonde texan chick with big tits that married some rich old guy after being in Playboy and then had the expectable judicial circus with the old guy’s (step)son. Apparently she had a reality show, about the same quality level as that one with Hulk Hogan only hers hasn’t been on Spanish cable or I’ve been lucky to miss it. Most of what I know about her is from E! (seen in Costa Rica), from stuff E! syndicates to VH1-euro, or from the Dope.
I was first told of her death by someone passing a much-read (slightly crumpled) email to me while I was collecting up some research stuff. “Look! Guess who’s died!”
The name sounded kinda familiar, but it really rang no bells for me. Apparently the radio stations made note of it. I think.
I don’t think I caught the news that night, but there hasn’t been a great big bally-hoo over this here, from what I gather. Took the Internet to help me find out a bit of who she was – and I still don’t really care.
Did we? I don’t know, I’m not a lawyer, but the same uproar was also evident when Pamela Anderson and Cindy Crawford were large posters. And, H&M still do put up them large posters of almost naked models in flimsy underwear.
To save you the trouble: It’s been talked about in the gossip sections of most daily newspapers, but did not warrant any headlines. Everybody I’ve mentioned it to seemed to have heard of her, anyway, if only in passing (no pun intended). However, I was suprised to read about it in the Spiegel (one of Germany’s more “investigative” magazines - it’s in the “panorama” section, which is how they spell “gossip” 
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Her death made the morning news/gossip shows and headlined on a few of the weekly gossip rags. Resident dancing monkey on a leash (aka Dave Spector) was on TV the other morning detailing the inheritance tangle. It hasn’t merited evening news or ‘real’ newspaper space.
If she weren’t a former Playboy model with big tits, the coverage would probably be much less.
No wonder Norway does so well on quality of life indexes.
Front page news in Melbourne. She was very famous here for some ridiculous Tv appearances on Ozzie award shows
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I am American so I am peripherally aware of who she was, but I was more than a little surprised that the BBC Radio World Service was reporting her death. I couldn’t imagine why they were reporting on her at all let alone a fairly in-depth look at the custody issues.
It made me a little sad inside.
All the usual suspects (i.e. the red lettered tabloids) in the UK were pronouncing her death as full front page news.
And yes, she’d been on enough TV gossip type shows to be known over here.
I thought you did, but now I can’t find a single reference to it. I may have dreamt it.
We do have something called the Marketing Practice Act which is used everytime the ultrafeminists bring charges on H&M, but this act is from 1972. But there was included in this act in 1997/98 a detailed wording on commercials that could be offending (exploiting the sex, or something like that). So I guess, both miss Smith and Crawford did have something to do with a enforcement of the Act, but I don’t know if H&M ever did get censored.
further to Einmon’s information on German coverage: coverage has got a slight new lease of life due to Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt’s paternity claim - Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt (né Robert Lichtenberg) has been a minor topic of gossip coverage in his own right as he notoriously purchased (by way of adoption) a German noble name, Americans for the impressing of.
I heard about her death on another (Australian) message board. My first reaction was, “that name sounds familiar”. I then checked the local newspaper site, and sure enough, there was a story about it and I found out about her. Turns out the familiarity of the name was just through osmosis, and I’d actually had no idea who she was at all.
To me, she’s another Paris Hilton. I’ve heard of Paris Hilton.
Then again, I’m not into celebrities at all, and many of my countrymen might or might not have heard of her, for all I know.
I’m surprised that there haven’t been more replies frankly acknowledging ANS’ posing in Playboy and being a “Playmate fo the Year”. I had thought that sort of thing would leave an indelible mark with many of its readers.
And ditto for the “Naked Gun” sequel. You can’t tell me that all those male eyeballs were riveted on Fred Ward instead… :dubious:
Just spotted at the supermarket: New Weekly magazine has put Anna Nicole on the cover and promises an 8 page tribute inside.
Here’s a nice critical essay on her emblematic significance, as it were, as a symbol of a sort of only-in-America opportunity. It’s a WSJ editorial and not an MLA paper, so it’s readable and cogent.
No, Paris Hilton is an heiress Smith earned her money .