Rules are simple: each Doper gives his/her pick for Dannie Lynn’s paternity and when the results will be announced. (There’s no shortage of possible ANS Death pools: cause-of-death, when-if-Howard-Stern-will-be-charged-with-contributing, who-will-write-first-tell-all-book, etc., but paternity will probably be the first answered.)
A shame we can’t do a $1 buy-in per entry to make it most interesting and with the award going to whoever guesses daddy and date the closest.
For those who don’t have cable (where reruns of Good Times and Mother Angelica are about the only shows without ANS segments- I half expect Josh Bernstein to wind up in the Bahamas and oversee the excavation of ANS’s septic tank on Digging for the Truth) the current “big picks” are of course
Howard K. Stern (Anna’s former attorney and common-law husband)
Best thing going for his claim: He was inseparable from her so he certainly had plenty of opportunity
Worst thing going: Why’s he so damned adamant about not taking a DNA test?
Larry Birkhead (photographer and brief fling ANS supposedly hated by the end)
Best thing: Seems a bit less publicity hungry or determined to financially gain than the other candidates; only one who seems to truly want only the baby
Worst thing: according to ANS’s inner circle, the dates aren’t right
Prince Frederic von Anhalt (Zsa-Zsa’s nouveau nobleman husband, a man you gotta love if only for this quote :
)
Best thing: the sheer dark-horse oddity of it
Worst thing: he’s about 70 years old and nobody seems to have ever heard of his 10 year affair with ANS until his death
J. Howard Marshall (ANS’s late husband and baby’s alleged frozen pop)
Best thing: well, it’s possible, and it was the same plot as an ER episode ANS might have seen and it would be a media disaster to deny the baby an inheritance from his billionaire dad
Worst thing: He’s an 89 year old man who’s been dead more than a decade
Or you can pick your own.
My pick: G. Ben Thompson, the man who owned ANS’s house
PS= For all the hooplah and media orgies surrounding this absolutely pointless Iraq-and-State/of/the/Union-and-other-real/issue-bumping celebrity death, you have to admit that this one truly does have it all. You couldn’t write this- mysterious death, up-for-grabs-baby, death-under-similar-circumstances-son, methodone-and-SlimFast-in-the-fridge, Geraldo-accusing-murder-and-immorality-
Gotta admit, this one’s a helluva lot more sparkly and fun than O.J., Scott Petersen or a crazy astronaut scorned you never heard of.
I KNEW Don Ameche was queer! I knew it! The way he looked at Wilford Brimley in the bathing suit scenes of Cocoon alone… I sure didn’t know he played basketball or still held press conferences though.
Can I put money on “Someone other than the four guys who are claiming paternity”? I don’t know who it’ll be, I just think it is someone other than any of them.
That’s my vote as well. Someone other than the ones who are claiming it now. Either an unknown or the Bahamian Minister of Immigration who was caught on camera lying in bed with ANS. :eek: Did men just plain lose their minds around the girl or something?