Random thoughts about Anna Nicole Smith

[question everything]

First, I am glad that it moved Astronaut Nowak from the front pages.

As I left the market yesterday I noticed that People Magazine already had Nowak on its cover. Now they wish they waited a day, I suppose.

While Nowak was a role model for young people to excel in math and science, a role model for investing in science and technology, a hero - Smith was a role model for... young women to be blond with big boobs and to try to impress rich and powerful men. The poor woman obviously tried to make the best of what life dealt her but the macabre voyeurism is sickening.

CNN (mostly) compares Smith to Marilyn Monroe. Yes, Monroe was blond and a centerfold, but she was an actress with some good films. Billy Wilder's "Some Like it Hot" is still a funny movie, and she appeared next to Jack Lemon, Tony Curtis and Joe E. Brown. And she had another funny role, do not remember which movie, where she was a very short sighted vain woman who, of course, would not wear eye glasses (this was before contact lenses) which created funny situations.

No, Smith should be compared to Paris Hilton. In both cases, blond women with nothing much to contribute except "convincing" gossip magazines and TV shows that they should be followed and covered and reported about... nothing.

Of course, Paris Hilton has her own millions and, unless she gets implants, I don't think she will be a Playboy centerfold..

I feel sorry for the poor baby. No matter the outcome, she will grow up a confused and troubled adult constantly surrounded by analysts. Her only rescue could be if Smith has family members back in Texas who can raise this baby as a normal child, hidden from everyone until she reaches 21.. but I doubt this, not with all the circus.

[glarius]

1. Have you heard the latest...ZsaZsa Gabor's husband claims paternity of the baby?

It is getting more and more circus-like. I too feel sorry for the poor innocent baby and her future.

[Debi]

2. The other Marilyn Monroe movie you were trying to remember is

How to Marry a Millionaire...Hmmm.

[sallyseven]

3. She was born in Texas.

What more can I say. I feel sorry that this circus is so disgusting. I saw the Autopsy Dr. and I think he thinks that everyone is nuts. The questions were obnoxious and they tried to put words in his mouth. Rest in peace Nicole.

[kimmerspixelated]

8. If that is a hit on Texans,

I take issue with that as a native from Tejas. Look, there are idiots in EVERY state, not just Texas!!!!

[question everything]

11. Yes, I watched that "news conference."

All I could think was: vultures. The doctor said what he wanted to say and they were trying to find conspiracy everywhere. Obviously, telling the world that she dies of complications of the flu won't sell copies.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Hey. Be respectful.

She's this generation's Princess Di.

[question everything]

12. Had she consoled a kid with AIDS?

Did she use her "celebrity" status to work against land mines?

If she is this generation Princess Di then we are doomed, indeed.

[NYCGirl]

5. Her career reminds me a bit more of Mamie Van Doren. Except that Mamie is

still around!

http://www.mamievandoren.com/

[AnneD]

6. I liken her more to

Jayne Mansfield. I think her young daughter survived too.

[NYCGirl]

7. All of Jayne's kids survived — she had five in all, and she had more of a career.

than Smith, IMO.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0543790/

Although Monroe, Mansfield, Van Doren, and Smith all were Playmates at one time.

[AnneD]

9. I was thinking that one

a daughter was in the car with her. And yes she had more of a career.

[NYCGirl]

10. Yes, Mariska was in the car with two brothers. I'm a fan of Jaynie's, which is

probably why I remember this stuff!

:hi:

[AlCzervik]

13. Mariska looks a lot like her mom.

[Critters2]

20. Jayne Mansfield's daughter is the actress Mariska Hargitay.

[idgiehkt]

23. I've always heard that Mansfield had a genius level IQ, though

I think it's safe to say Smith didn't.

[edbermac]

14. CNN says they need more tests to determine cause of death.

And they ran this picture. Don't you think this would be a major cause?

[bicentennial_baby]

15. Your thoughts are greatly appreciated...

Oh wait, no they're not...

[MonkeyFunk]

16. Paris Hilton was born rich

and has led a pampered life.

Anna Nicole Smith was born poor, had no advantages other than beauty, and managed to become world-famous. AND... she took some rich bastard all the way to the Supreme Court and beat him.

[pitohui]

17. yeah i'm with monkeyfunk

smith's only "out" was to parlay her looks into something big, she dared greatly, and she got farther than almost anyone else could have considering she started a mile behind the starting gate with both feet chopped off by bad family background, bad genetics (addictions, eating disorders), and the hostility and hatred of a classist society

in a just world, how could a surviving spouse have been denied her right to her husband's estate in the first place -- our society only thinks this fair because we hate the poor and think a poor woman should never be allowed to get above her "station" -- she was not a real wife and it's not a real marriage because she's "not our kind, darling"

me -- i'm sorry she was so unhappy, that she struggled so much with ED and addiction, and that it ultimately killed her

she did more than most of us would have done with her handicaps and i'm glad she at least got up the nose of a few rich fucks

how many of us can honestly say we have done as much?

[Critters2]

21. What is a "bad family"? nt

[Left Is Write]

19. Yes...I'm not seeing the comparison to Paris Hilton.

I don't think they are anything alike.

[Ivan Sputnik]

18. Monroe? No

You're right. No comparison, really, except for some superficial physical similarities. And that's not a slam against Anna Nicole (whom I thought was kind of goofy but likable). There was and always will be only one MM.

[cwydro]

22. kick