The commercials for this show convinced me that I didn’t want to see the show. Besides, it was on after my bedtime.
I can’t think of anything that could have compelled me to watch it.
Usually, I watch every reality show to come down the pike, but this one, I turned off after ten minutes. It just seemed so painful and MEAN to watch this woman self-destruct like that. I’m trying to differentiate between her and Ozzy in this sense, and it just seems like Ozzy has more people around him that love him and want to care for him. Anna’s got her son, and (maybe) her freaky assistant, but everyone else affiliated with her just seems so skeezy.
I think that if she hadn’t appeared so calm and sane when she was sitting in the swing, it wouldn’t be so painful to watch. I never thought I’d say this, but I feel guilty watching this show. Have we really degenerated so much as a society that we giggle and laugh at some woman’s obvious pain and addiction? (That wasn’t towards any Dopers–just more of a general statement.)
Mind you, I NEVER thought I’d say this about reality tv.
My thoughts exactly. The way she treated her dying husband was unbelivably cruel. She couldn’t even be bothered to sit by his bedside as he died.
As for her show–it was almost painful to watch. I feel no sympathy for her though. I feel sorry for her son. He’s going to need YEARS of therapy to recover from that.
Ugh.
Originally, she did–she claimed to deserve over half a billion dollars. However, in probate court (where she was a complete fruitcake), she was denied it.
A California judge later determined she was deserving of some of the money and awarded her $88.5 million (that was March of this year). The son is appealing that money, so it isn’t in her hands just yet. She referred to that in her show, saying something to the effect that she “didn’t have the money yet.”
You want to talk about train wreck (which, BTW, is the word the repeatedly came to mind in watching this show)–the E! True Hollywood Story on her was fascinating, and yet awful. To put it kindly, she was not painted in a flattering light. Her “relationship” with the elderly billionaire was heartbreaking…she never actually lived with him, she sped off to a photo shoot on their wedding night, and once when he visited her and she was in bed, he asked to be put in the bed with her. She said, “Now, now, you know you’re not allowed to do that–you pee the bed!” She also wasn’t around, and hadn’t been around for over a month, when he was hospitalized and died. What an awful, awful human being.
The video of her testimony was fascinating. She was…uh…significantly messed up. She would bring a framed picture of her “husband” with her on the stand, and would periodically talk to it, blow kisses to it, etc. Bizarre. I truly hope that f*cked up slut ultimately doesn’t get one dime of his money.
The show: Rather disappointing. She was constantly playing up for the camera, and that drove me batty. The Osbournes are so much more interesting because they just live their live, usually (and seemingly) unaware of the cameras. Anna was grotesquely captivated by their presence.
Yuck.
Her son needs to run away. Now.
A more detailed review for those who missed all or some of it.
There were basically 4 parts to show:
- House hunting trip 1.
- Going to a Guess Jeans 20th Aniv. party.
- House hunting trip 2 and prel. moving in.
- Interspersed with interview footage of her reviewing the previous events.
The first part was the worst. She was obviously in no reasonable mental state. When she entered the broker’s office she went nuts over some little piece of candy. Like a sugar addicted 2 year old. Unable to hold a steady mental thread at all. All just “I want it now” attitude. Her appearance was awful. Weird hairdo, fake looking cleavage spilling out, etc. Her mental state in the next two were only a little better.
But her appearance and mental state in the interview pieces were somewhat different. Still slow talking but substantially more coherenent. Someone that zigzags between states like this is either on something or has MPD or other serious mental problem. All of which should rule her out to being the star of a reality TV show if ethics were an issue in Hollywood. Her appearance in the interview segments was also much better. Nicer hair, less makeup, etc. (But there was something going on under her nose …)
She is larger than her Playmate days, but smaller than her peak weight. Her choice of clothes given her figure is ridiculous. Esp. the dress for the Guess party. It highlighted her caboose, which she noticed. Couldn’t someone have picked out a better dress?
Also starring in this psych ward on wheels were her son, an assistant Kim (standard short purple hair, comfortable shoes, etc.), various flacks, a pathetic excuse for a dog “Sugar pie”, real estate agents, etc.
Most interesting revelation: She says she hasn’t had sex in 2 years.
Least interesting revelation: Deciding on a house basically comes down to the size of the tub.
This woman needs help. Putting her on TV is not in her best interests.
My housemate, who happens to think that The Long Riders is the greatest Western ever filmed, appears to have found the show quite entertaining.
Was the same show broadcast twice in a row? I swear that after I wandered off to watch my hard-drive defragment, I could hear him watching it again.
There’s only been one episode aired, but I believe it was sandwiched by repeats of her THS.
Hopefully the show will get canned quick, because she certainly doesn’t need the attention.
Yes. E! ran the premiere at 10:00, and again at 10:30, presumably so those who forgot it was on and tuned in halfway through – or who just stumbled across it – could catch what they missed.
For me, the big revelation in the show was during the Guess event, when Anna Nicole turned to the camera and did the seductive vamp routine straight into the lens. Suddenly, all of my doubts about how such a colossally stupid and self-absorbed person could achieve such phenomenal success were dismissed. She’s perfected the art of talking like a porn star, and she can turn it on like flipping a switch. “Come on, I know you want it, I dare you.” I mean, yeah, it’s totally obvious how she got where she is, but I’d never actually seen her demonstrate the skill in such a specific manner.
I was very interested to see the show (as I said in several past threads on the subject), mostly because she seems like such a perversely contradictory and fascinating character. But I don’t know if I’ll be tuning in to the second episode; it was undeniably painful to see this shockingly shallow and spoiled person spiraling down the drain of self-destructive selfishness. And worse, unlike “The Osbournes,” there were only occasional flashes of identifiable humanity with which I could empathize. Whereas it’s easy to put yourself in Ozzy’s addled shoes and sympathize with his attempts, however misguided, to steer his rowdy family along a reasonable path, I found absolutely no point of identification with Anna Nicole. She’s like a horrible parody of herself, Xanaxed almost to the point of oblivion.
So I may or may not tune in next Sunday. Beyond that, prediction would be a crapshoot.
(Besides, my wife and I have finally broken our Buffy cherry: We’re halfway through the Season Two DVD and have belatedly grasped the greatness that is slaying in Sunnydale. So we’ve got better things to do with our TV time.)
Besides… Ozzy Osbourne has a definable talent.
along with morgainelf, i turned in to the osbournes after anna nicole. what a refreshingly normal family!
i rarely have control of the cable and i shan’t be watching anna nicole again. i found nothing funny, just tragic.
i can only imagine her lawyer fees. her lawyer seems to be with her constantly.
Didn’t watch it, but now I want to see what the hell is going on.
How old is her son? Is he the son of her husband, or someone else?
I suppose all that crap about marrying the guy because she loved him and NOT because he was loaded was just that-crap.
This was so horrible. I made it until she was talking to her son on the phone then I had to turn it off. (I gave it 2 thumbs down on the TiVo so I wouldn’t accidently see it again, heh.) I felt horrible for her when they showed her that house that she fell in love with then said “you don’t have enough money for it, sorry.” That was terrible! Why the hell would you do something like that!?!? To make her cry and look like an idiot on television, that’s why. EVIL!
Last week she interviewed with Howard Stern, and at the end of the show wentinto the bathroom to make out with his cameraman or someone. They fell in love, started dating. It’s become the latest obsession of Stern-both on the radio and on E!
I’ve heard enough of her…I couldnt bear to watch the show. Besides that, everyone at work said it sucked.
Quoth the voguevixen,
Yes, perhaps, but it’s an effective form of evil. Tonight I came home to discover my aforementioned friend enthralled by a show involving some poor girl eating a plate of worms.
He’s my pal and all–hell, I’d take a bullet for him. But the truth of the matter is that this dude is an aficionado of really bad television, a fearless quidnunc of the vile and the vapid. I suspect that he’s the target audience, and he’s lapping it up like so many live nightcrawlers.
Ahem. Lest anyone mistake me for a nebbish, I’d like to thank www.thesaurus.com for the above post.
I think Anna Nicole Smith has a nice pair of quidnuncs! 
Her son Daniel is 16 years old. Anna Nicole (birth name Vickie Lynn) had him when she was 19 years old and married to Billy Wade Smith; their marriage ended soon afterward.
Background information:[ul][li]Brief bios of Anna Nicole, from the folks at E! themselves and also Hollywood.com.[/li][li]CNN’s review of the show.[/li][li]Entertainment Weekly sheds a bit more light about her and her lawyer, with the surreal (given the situation) name of Howard Stern.[/li]Background and timeline of her relationship with J. Howard Marshall, from her court papers.[/ul]
There were interview segments during the show in which she spoke normally. . . and wore no makeup at all, or so it seemed. She actually looked and behaved much better during those segments than she did during the house-hunting segments. That made me wonder whether the whole house-hunting bit was just a put-on!
Yes. Curious programming.