Everything is Anna Nicole Smith today.
Since the shock of her death yesterday, at the age of 39, every TV news story, every news paper, every phone and water cooler conversation is about the life and death of the goddess of tabloid fame. She was far bigger than just any celebrity.
It seems everyone knows her life story, Small town girl, high school dropout, teen bride and mother, Stripper turned model, turned gold digger. She was the girl we loved to laugh at.
We laugh at what makes us uncomfortable.
When Anna Nicole Smith married her sixty some years older oil-rich billionaire, she crossed a line, by attempting to move into too high a place in our society. We laughed at her for pretending the marriage was anything more than an arrangement for cash. For some reason I don't quite understand we didn't laugh as much at the old fart she married? She was an object of our scorn when she didn't profit from the marriage as she, and the rest of us, imagined she would.
Anna Nicole kept on keeping on. On TV, she had her own show for two years, and selling diet pills for which she, and the diet pill company was being sued in a class action. Her life was all grist for the gossip mill.
I always felt bad for the girl, she sold herself shamelessly, and did nothing to maintain her dignity. BUT, the woman did what she had to do, with what she had. She made her mark on this society, and even in death her name will be coming up on the news and in the papers for months and perhaps years from now.
I can't help but wonder if she will ever rest in peace?
Since the shock of her death yesterday, at the age of 39, every TV news story, every news paper, every phone and water cooler conversation is about the life and death of the goddess of tabloid fame. She was far bigger than just any celebrity.
It seems everyone knows her life story, Small town girl, high school dropout, teen bride and mother, Stripper turned model, turned gold digger. She was the girl we loved to laugh at.
We laugh at what makes us uncomfortable.
When Anna Nicole Smith married her sixty some years older oil-rich billionaire, she crossed a line, by attempting to move into too high a place in our society. We laughed at her for pretending the marriage was anything more than an arrangement for cash. For some reason I don't quite understand we didn't laugh as much at the old fart she married? She was an object of our scorn when she didn't profit from the marriage as she, and the rest of us, imagined she would.
Anna Nicole kept on keeping on. On TV, she had her own show for two years, and selling diet pills for which she, and the diet pill company was being sued in a class action. Her life was all grist for the gossip mill.
I always felt bad for the girl, she sold herself shamelessly, and did nothing to maintain her dignity. BUT, the woman did what she had to do, with what she had. She made her mark on this society, and even in death her name will be coming up on the news and in the papers for months and perhaps years from now.
I can't help but wonder if she will ever rest in peace?
posted by Gem_with_faraway_eyes | 9:49 AM
6 Comments:
Sadly, the freaks won't ever let her rest in peace. says a lot about the human race, doesn't it.
Sadly, just some of the human race.
I still have hope that not everyone has become so greedy and crass as the folk surounding Ms. Smith.
But then too, these are the people she chose to have around her at one time or another.
I fear this woman's battles will go on and on, played out in her death as they did in her life. Perhaps it's fitting. Her life was a tabloid feature.... Why should it change now, just because she's dead?
Battles? What battles? Smith was a drug addict huckster. She intentionally put herself in the tabloid limelight because that's how she made her money. I guess it doesn't take very much to fool you.
You know Gem, Ms. Smith was about as greedy and crass herself as anybody can get. She was smart though. Even in death, she'll still be able to make money to take care of her baby. Good post.
What's with someone's obsession with making your name clickable,Gem ? More childish games ? Lord knows what it might go to, with the tacky,brain challenged wolf pack still clinging to your every word. It's refreshing to not see Anna attacked.
Yes, I said before, as long as they are picking at me, they are leaving some other poor fool alone.
I donno about the clickable name thing. I didn't even notice it. I wasn't going to publish any comments, and then second guessed myself.
I guess anyone who clicks on that does so at their own expense. I'M NOT GOING TO SEE WHAT IT IS!
If it's something rude, it again says more about the poster than it does about Moi! Just a bit more childish crap.
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