Anna Nicole Smith reportedly collapsed, possibly dead

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Marilyn conveyed a special poignancy, a kind of pathos for her character’s cluelessness tempered by a spirited curiosity, a knowing childllike quality, if that makes any sense. It was real, and she conveyed it well. Not a major talent, but a lot more than just shaking her titties.

And comparing this Stern character to Arthur Miller by noting that Miller was “a lot better” doesn’t begin to capture the gulf between them as human beings. Jesus Christ was a lot better than Joseph Stalin, too–the real question is why would you even compare the two?

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Next time you watch Some Like It Hot, try following it up with Skyscraper.

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You’re kind of asking the wrong guy, as I’m not a huge Marilyn Monroe fan – though I think she had some acting talent, which is more than I could say for Anna Nicole.

I mean, there’s absolutely no way ANS could’ve turned in a performance a billionth as good as MM’s in Some Like It Hot. She may have been playing a type, but at least she was playing instead of typing.

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I thought of this immediately too, I’m [moderately] embarassed to say. And he’s the only one who’s been with both Daniel and AN… Coincidence?

Probably completely, but still… interesting.

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It took me a long time to pin down, but I finally realized that while most sex symbols succeed in sounding like, even though they just met you, they want to have sex with you, Marilyn Monroe was able to sound like, even though she just met you, she wanted to have sex with you…

again.

Which is infinitely more appealing, when you think about it.

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You guys aren’t the only ones.

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Her 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn Hope, was not with them, sources say, but is being cared for in the Bahamas by the mother of Shane Gibson, a high-ranking Bahamian official who is a close friend of Smith’s.

Anna

This is where I read it, I saw her on ET lastnight and a few nights before, I’ll believe it when I see it on the news.

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Splash News says they have a video of her getting CPR and they plan on putting it up later today.

Scandal.

I’m putting my money on Stern. He just seems like a scandalous, scandalous man. Of course, she wasn’t exactly an angel herself.

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I don’t know where the Howard Stern hate is coming from.

Having watched more of her reality show than I ever would have if I weren’t married to someone who was briefly obsessed with it (i.e., any of it), I thought he came across as someone who actually cared about her, while being extremely world-weary at taking on the task of protecting her from herself.

When word came that they had gotten married, I wasn’t a bit surprised, because although her show was ostensibly about her trying to find a new man, there seemed to be a genuine affection between them, and we suspected they were actually lovers.

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He doesn’t even have to have done anything grotesquely sleazy, much less illegal, to have copped the money through good planning, does he? I mean, if he had this bright idea : "Mega-wealthy unmarried pregnant client needs a husband to keep her ex-bf’s hands off her $$$$, and there’s

  1. a pretty fair chance that the baby will miscarry, given ANS’s lifestyle issues

and
2) a pretty fair chance that ANS might not live that long, given her lifestyle

and 3) her son is also likely not to live that long, given his lifestyle

This looks like a pretty good gravy train to ride. If I hit the trifecta, I’ll have all her money to myself, and worst case scenario, I’ll still get pretty well paid for dealing with all this media garage for a few years." what’s that but a career choice?

The fact that so much happened so fast just draws attention, but if ANS and her son had died two years apart, three years from now, we’d just be saying “Yah, that lucky creep she married gets to split the $$$ with the baby,” but no one would be accusing him of a nefarious murder plot.

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Not hate, just strong suspicion. Two young people have died. Each in the presence of Howard K. Stern. Each standing between Stern and full access to the money. It’s a thing that makes you go “Hmmm.”

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That is actually a very astute observation and an accutae one of Monroe’s sex appeal.

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I knew she had died before they announced it.
Shepard Smith saying he was getting a feed in his earphone and the report was “not good” and then a press conference right away.
Why do they keep saying she was 39 when her birthdate was apparently 11/27/68. She wouldn’t have been 39 til November.

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I didn’t get the impression they were lovers, but that he was madly in love with her. He put his whole career and life on hold, to spend as much time with her as possible, and to be her protector. I think he’s one of the few “good guys” in her life.

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When I was taking Trimspa, it just made me have giant poops.

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(Not to speak of ill of the dead and all respectful disclaimers in place, but) I can’t imagine any guy with even average intelligence being in love with Anna Nicole. If she was anything remotely like her screen persona (and judging by the fact she wasn’t playing a character you’d think she must have been) she was stupid, shallow, drug addled, stupid {so much that it bears repeating}, damned near illiterate, incapable of talking about anything that didn’t have to do with her immediate surroundings, a golddigger and embarassing in public. Even Stern will not say he’s absolutely 100% beyond doubt positive he’s the father of her baby as in addition to all the rest she slept around; supposedly there was yet a third possibility for paternity (this according to Birkhead). True she was occasionally extremely attractive. I can understand somebody being in lust with her, but damn… what you’d have to put up with when she woke up wouldn’t make it worth it.

Stern was her lawyer and yet… moved in with her. That’s a bit odd in and of itself. Odd story: boy meets girl, boy agrees to represent girl, boy moves in with girl, boy stars on show with girl and girl’s son and girl’s pathetic personal assistant who’s clearly in love with girl, boy exposes his digital blurring with girl on episode of said show, boy moves around the country and then to the Bahamas with girl, boy states on talk show [years after the reality show] “oh, forgot to mention, me and Anna Nicole have been lovers for a while now and I’m the baby’s father… I’m almost sure I am… I’m completely positive that I probably am…”, boy “marries” girl just after the most traumatic day in girl’s life [and in really good timing to take advantage of the whole “can’t be compelled to testify against a spouse” thing]…

‘Boy’ is at least intelligent enough to pass the California bar and girl probably couldn’t remember the name of the president without getting naked and looking down. {“President George Walkman Pussy!”} Girl is, however, a cash goat if not a cash cow- the reality series, advertisements, Trim Spa, etc.- not bad for a girl with no education in and of itself- and girl also happens to have a much-better-than-lottery-odds shot at a 9 figure settlement from a dead husband’s estate.

Then there’s the odd timing all around: the one positive thing I believe about Anna Nicole is I honestly think she loved her son very much. The death of a beloved 20 year old would leave any parent in total shock and grief, especially when timed with the major bodily changes and possible post partum of giving birth. How many women would really think about “marriage” at such a time? Or be up to a lucrative photo shoot?

Something’s just kinda not right about the whole thing. I certainly don’t think Howard’s evil and stupid enough to be dropping those around him, but I also don’t think he was in it for the long haul just cause he loved watching her try to make works with her Cheerios (“oooooooooooooooo! If I only had a T I could make it say ‘too’, like the number!”). He strikes me more as a world class opportunist feeding off the constantly expanding and contracting teats and stupidity and vulnerability of a worldclass airhead golddigger.

But I could be wrong. I don’t know either of them except through TV. (But in case I’m not, Bobby Trendy and the lesbian assistant whose name eludes me may want to go into hiding before he strikes again.)

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I saw the news at a restaurant tonight, and couldn’t help giggling at the tagline CNN ran: ‘DEVELOPING STORY’ – hey, her whole life was a story about ‘developing’.

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The bizarre deaths don’t end at Anna and her son. The stepson of her billionaire husband, who was the one giving her a hard time about inheriting any money, died on June 20. At age 67.

The whole thing is just bizarre.

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Anna Nicole’s mother (who barely had a relationship with her- they went years without seeing each other) is having a field day holding court. She’s pretty much accused Howard flat out of this.

Of course if she’s right… Mexia, TX may be a much smaller place if she doesn’t keep her mouth shut…

And Perez Hilton is being his usual restrained self. The Stern conspiracies and far worse than anything here are flying.

One thing gleaned from that site (indirectly) though: Birkhead (knight of the one page website) has asked the court to order a DNA sample from AN’s corpse before disposal. Some are calling this despicable, though personally I’d think that before disposal would be the best time to take a DNA sample from a body.

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Fee for photo shoot: $50.

Fee for photos: $500.

Getting established nationwide as a sex symbol: Priceless.

(And for the record, it was the second issue. The first had only the bunny logo.)