Anna Nicole Smith has died- Page 11

[pab]

Posted: 2/13/07 at 7:32pm

"I feel really bad for the poor baby with three men claiming to be her father. She's still in the Bahamas right?"

Yes, she is in The Bahamas but the baby daddy count is now up to five.

[jeniferrenepatricia]

Posted: 2/15/07 at 3:14am

Yawn...yawn...yawn. Who cares? She didn't have any talent, she hopped from one guy to another, and she was famous for her breats. A new version of Zsa Zsa Gabor, but at least Zsa Zsa keeps all her money.

[DG]

Posted: 2/15/07 at 3:18am

Zsa Zsa is still alive, your most sensitive highness.

[pemberlee]

Posted: 2/15/07 at 6:38am

And Gabor's husband is one of the maybe-baby's daddy, non?

[Kringas]

Posted: 2/15/07 at 11:21am

Neil Steinberg wrote an interesting piece on Anna Nicole for his column yesterday.

When news of Anna Nicole Smith's death raced through the newsroom Thursday, I did a quick moral inventory and determined that I did not care in the slightest. I never found her sexy -- too zaftig -- didn't know any movies she had been in and I forgot that she was ever a Playboy model.
I was so indifferent that I didn't even think it worth the effort to express my indifference. She was, after all, a human being, and while we don't typically care about any of the thousands of humans dying every second, it sounds bad to say so.

Besides, I had just endured trage of those stricken at Jerry Ford's death; I could imagine what Anna Nicole Smith's flock of faithful might be like: howling women, spilling out of their bustiers, oily men with her face tattooed on their biceps, lighting candles in front of the Sun-Times, asking how -- how, how! -- could I slur their goddess, how could I imply that the loss of this young woman, this new mother, was not a tragedy on par with the death of Cleopatra?

That was Thursday.

Since then I, like you, have clung to a palm tree while wave after wave of Anna Nicole Smith commentary and analysis has crashed over me. This was not a sad woman selling herself in the back alleys of fame, but a symbol. A totem! She was all of us! She was the statue of liberty.

You think I exaggerate?

"Anna Nicole Smith embodied America," an editor of the Wall Street Journal wrote on that once-respected newspaper's opinion page Tuesday. "She embodied its bounty as well as its overabundance."

The hell she did. I would suggest that you, whoever you are, Mr. or Mrs. Average Reader -- Fazool Fazwanni reading this at the Rainbow Cafe, on a lunch break during your 14 hours of cab-driving, or Mrs. Irene Harris, housewife of Lisle, Ill., glancing through the paper because you can't face cleaning the kitchen -- embody America far, far more than the obscene freak show that was Ms. Smith.

Not everybody watched. Not everybody cared. And if her death has meaning, if it is a symbol, it means that not everything has meaning, not everything is significant, and not every particle of culture has to be allowed to dwell in your heart. With so much information pouring over us, we have to screen things out, to shield ourselves with selective indifference. I'd say that utterly ignoring Anna Nicole Smith, in life and death, is a clue that you're paying attention to the right things.
Chicago Sun-Times

[Jane2]

Posted: 2/15/07 at 11:45am

"and actually quite attractive."

I think I'm in the small minority, but I thought she was gorgeous.

Yeah, put down the produce!

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:00pm

Kringas, you seem to be as obsessed as you think those you keep coming back to this thread to criticize are.

[DG]

Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:22pm

This story is very much alive, and has become for many an indictment and cause for investigation into the way mass media responds. The article Kringas posted was from YESTERDAY'S news - it's not like he dug something out of the archives to keep harping on a point.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:25pm

No, but for someone who thinks it's not news, he keeps coming back to make sure we know he thinks that.

[DG]

Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:29pm

Kringas is posting about the news story as it has developed - which, as I stated above, has morphed into commentary on the reporting itself. Of course he's interested in that angle, as that was his position to begin with. And this thread is the appropriate place to keep having that discussion.

HE'S posting on the issue at hand, not commenting on other poster's views or actions - as it should be.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:31pm

HE'S posting on the issue at hand, not commenting on other poster's views or actions - as it should be.

Yes, as it should be - indeed.

[best12bars]

Posted: 2/15/07 at 12:42pm

Did she die AGAIN?

Every day it's "announced" in the news as if it were something for us to react to all over again.

It's like the movie "Groundhog Day."

Updated On: 2/15/07 at 12:42 PM

[pemberlee]

Posted: 2/15/07 at 1:03pm

Yeah, but Groundhog Day with no Bill Murray, which is sad.

Now her mom and boyfriend are fighting over the body. It reminds me of Antigone. Yes, I just compared the death of ANS to a Greek tragedy.

[Kringas]

Posted: 2/15/07 at 1:39pm

As DG pointed out Rath, this has been ongoing. Are you not the one who commented on something I said four days prior?

The thread was still on the main page when I posted it.

I'm not sure what the big deal is. Unlike some, I don't go around claiming I'm done with a thread (or the board, for that matter) and then continue to rear my ugly head.

[Rathnait62]

Posted: 2/15/07 at 1:40pm

Oooh SNAP!

[Kringas]

Posted: 2/15/07 at 1:45pm

Well, you sure told me, Rathnait62!

[jeniferrenepatricia]

Posted: 2/16/07 at 5:12am

I just read an article that Bubbles, the chimp, and Michael Jackson are both claiming to be the father of her baby. Michael is buying an oxygen case and mask for the baby as we speak....

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 5/9/07 at 10:25pm

Seems so long ago...

[Raviolisun]

Posted: 5/9/07 at 11:11pm

And I would like to keep it that way.

[BigFatBlonde]

Posted: 5/9/07 at 11:23pm

ok.