Anna Nicole Smith dead

[Buehrle>Wood]

I loved watching Access Hollywood earlier. They approached her death entering the break as some celebrity gossip feature. "Next, the TRAGIC death of Anna Nicole Smith;" which sounded more like "OMG, this is great news!"

LOL, I saw it and was thinking the same thing. Even the segement was handled exactly like all their other gossip segments.

[Kyyle23]

I loved watching Access Hollywood earlier. They approached her death entering the break as some celebrity gossip feature. "Next, the TRAGIC death of Anna Nicole Smith;" which sounded more like "OMG, this is great news!"

 

Mary Hart sounded positively ecstatic about it today.

[BobDylan]

I can see where you're getting at too. The bottom line is if someone kills themselves or even wants to kill themself, then something or someone messed up along the line. I personally have no sympathy for anyone to kills themselves because that's their own choice. I just feel for the loved ones of that person.

 

I feel bad for the loved ones too. But I feel sympathy for the suicidal too. They're obviously going through some emotional pain that is unbearable. I don't think it's as much of a "choice" that you make it out to be.

[DrunkBomber]

She would have cried for any of us that died and showed us a great deal of remorse, sadness, etc. She was famous for her boobs and nailing an old billionaire. Her contribution to society will not be missed, there will be a thousand people today that will die in anonymity who contributed more as a parent, teacher, community leader, etc. than her. I'm not saying that to disparage her, but to point out the celebrity worship this country is on. People jumping in to defend her and her life. Why? Because she was famous for being famous.

I agree, as sad as it is for her family and baby, there are worse things happening to better people everyday. We simply are forced fed the details of her life and death because she was gold digging a billionaire and was in Playboy? Who cares.

[knightni]

She could have had heart issues due to the physical weight loss and trimspa pills, anti-depressants, etc.

Edited February 9, 2007 by knightni

[BHAMBARONS]

We will have to see what the autopsy shows. I will say that this case is either a homicide or accidental death. I would tend to go against suicide at this point. Again just the investigator in me.

[DBAHO]

Hmmm;

 

FILM footage of the final moments of Anna Nicole Smith's life has been sold for more than US$500,000 ($640,000) after a media bidding war, according to reports from the US.

 

FOX News has reported that Splash News and Picture Agency, a paparazzi outlet, sold the rights to the tape to an as-yet-unknown bidder.

 

A FOX News producer who watched the tape said the footage showed paramedics trying to administer CPR on the former Playboy Playmate's body.

 

The existence of the tape and the bidding war for it adds yet another bizarre twist to the sudden death of the 39-year-old star.

 

It has also emerged that one of the two men who claims to be the father of Smith's four-month-old daughter has asked for a DNA swab to be taken from the dead star's body to help prove his paternity claim.

 

With Smith's body not yet cold following her sudden death in Florida, the request was described by her lawyer to People magazine as "the lowest form of behaviour I have ever heard of".

 

Smith's death, the cause of which is not yet known, brought to a tragic end her chaotic life in which she rose from being a Texas stripper to one of Hollywood's richest and most notorious celebrities.

 

She collapsed her hotel room in Florida and was taken to a local hospital where she died.

 

Smith had been ordered to have her baby girl undergo a paternity test as part of a lawsuit by an ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead.

 

Mr Birkhead sued Smith in October, demanding she have the paternity test because he believed he was the father of the girl. Smith had said her lawyer, Howard K. Stern, was the father of the baby.

 

Mr Birkhead's request for DNA swabs from Smith's body came at lightning speed.

 

His lawyer, Debra Opri told FOX News: "Anna Nicole Smith is dead at the age of 39 because of a lifestyle. I do not want that child anywhere near Howard K. Stern, and that's all I'm going to say about it."

 

Smith reported needing medical help at her Florida hotel room by a private nurse, police said. An autopsy on the body will be conducted on Friday. Mr Birkhead wants to take DNA samples before the body is handed over to Smith's family.

[whitesoxfan101]

This really isn't a surprise at all. Sad, but not a surprise, this is a classic American tale. Sex, drugs, boobies, fame with no talent, young and tragic death. That's all I got, except oddly enough, she is from the same small town (Mexia, Texas) as a friend of mine. Go figure the odds on that one.

[Steff]

Was this person clinically depressed? If so, did you get to experience the mental pain and anguish they had 'to deal' with each day through a chemically inbalanced brain? It seems hard to make a blanket statement such as yours without having the disease yourself.

 

Their state has nothing to do with what the family had to deal with AFTER their "death", but no. They were not depressed as you elude to. And how is my comment a "blanket statement"? I have seen the effects of suicide first hand and what I posted is directly based on that incident.

 

That I understand. But isn't there some amount of selfishness in calling the deceased selfish after the facts? "He killed himself and it's my fault. Now I have to grieve the rest of my life over this." That's not selfish?

 

And if there is, and it's a reaction AFTER THE FACT, how does that contribute to them killing themselves as you seem to be trying to tie together..

 

ie... "well a start would be to not call the person selfish, eh?"

 

 

I feel bad for the loved ones too. But I feel sympathy for the suicidal too. They're obviously going through some emotional pain that is unbearable. I don't think it's as much of a "choice" that you make it out to be.

 

Live, die, live die...

 

That's not a choice? What would you call it then?

 

 

..."People jumping in to defend her and her life."

You mean on TV? Because I'm not sure anyone here is doing it.

I think it's precisely because I don't worship celebrities that I take a wait and see attitude about these things. Just as I would if the story was about a regular Joe. It's just a matter of being fair and respectful.

 

 

Nice post LMB.

[Texsox]

..."People jumping in to defend her and her life."

You mean on TV? Because I'm not sure anyone here is doing it.

 

I think there are some people who identify with her for parlaying her looks and sexuality into a nice lifestyle, then into a winning lottery ticket.

[Steff]

I think there are some people who identify with her for parlaying her looks and sexuality into a nice lifestyle, then into a winning lottery ticket.

 

 

Kinda like those baseball players who have talent and use it to get a huge contract...

 

Which IIRC correctly some here were fully supportive of just a few weeks ago. <_>

[Texsox]

Kinda like those baseball players who have talent and use it to get a huge contract...

 

Which IIRC correctly some here were fully supportive of just a few weeks ago. <_>

 

Exactly. And the ones who are playing for $25 a night and those that are playing for millions are both called professional ball players or whatever.

[NorthSideSox72]

Hmmm;

And this sad part of the story I place directly into the laps of the people who soak up all this garbage every day. That tape doesn't sell for 500k or anything else if not for the celebrity rubberneckers. Its the people who spend all day reading websites and magazines like that who pay that money, not the media companies.

 

I'm sorry but I just don't get the obsession people have with the personal lives of the galactically overpaid.

[Texsox]

And this sad part of the story I place directly into the laps of the people who soak up all this garbage every day. That tape doesn't sell for 500k or anything else if not for the celebrity rubberneckers. Its the people who spend all day reading websites and magazines like that who pay that money, not the media companies.

 

I'm sorry but I just don't get the obsession people have with the personal lives of the galactically overpaid.

 

Some of the same people that provide the income for those celebs when they are living.

 

Biographies are among the most popular books of all time. The difference is over the past 50 years we have created disposable biographies in the form of magazines, tv, web sites, etc. Instead of the Biography of Ben Frankllin years after his death, we get Ben in Love's Nest, is Penny saved this woman??

[Harry Chappas]

Anna Nicloe's death made me go huh for asecond and then that was it.

 

I do not understand celebrity worship and why her life is known to many. Other than being a nice look a few years back, I know her as the woman that is trying to bilk a family out of over $400M which for what I know (which is not much I must admit) tends for me to not really appreciate her. Paris Hilton is the same way. I really can not understand what the deal is and it is frustrating to me to see people worship these people that bring nothing to the table.

 

You can say the same thing about sports. There are plenty of people that could care less that spring training is starting next week but I do. It all has to do with the venue you choose for entertainment. I see no point in Paris Hilton's celebrity status and really have to question those that follow this crap and feel it is a good indication as to the society we live in that people with no talent and not even great looks can be popular. Kind of like the movie Trading Places, given the propersupport anyone can succeed.

 

Sports on the other hand takes talent. Talent that I do not have and am willing to pay to see. That may be stupid to some but it is what I enjoy. SOme people like reality tv and E!, I do not and therefore shrug at Nicole's death and go on.

 

Except to type this...........................oh god I am falling apart.

[Texsox]

And the sideshow continues. A Judge ordered the body preserved. http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/09/s...dies/index.html

[The Critic]

That's a LOT of entertainment value, my friend.

She was okay-looking before the weight gain, but not one of my favorites.

[Kid Gleason]

Hubba-hubba. Though I am a HUGE fan of the old "classic" style look, of which she was a throw back in the beginning.

[whitesoxfan101]

So, according to the AP, Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband says that HE very well could be the father since he's had an affair with her for over a decade. This could be the weirdest story I've ever heard.

[Balance]

This is such a non-story. It's absolutely shameful how the MSM is running Anna Nicole Smith stories instead of, you know, actual news.

 

But that's not where the money is, right?

[NorthSideSox72]

This is such a non-story. It's absolutely shameful how the MSM is running Anna Nicole Smith stories instead of, you know, actual news.

 

But that's not where the money is, right?

Thus, my previous point... the media plays what sells, like, you know, every other business on earth. Therefore to me, the blame falls squarely on the people dumb enough to buy into this garbage.

 

If no one buys all the gossip rags and no one watches the celeb stupid TV shows, then none of this makes it to the surface.

[Steff]

So, according to the AP, Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband says that HE very well could be the father since he's had an affair with her for over a decade. This could be the weirdest story I've ever heard.

 

 

 

Three Men and a Baby...

[redandwhite]

Who else was she banging in the last year? I think we need Maury.

[Kid Gleason]

But the publics obsession with stars, and the craze a stars death reaches, has been the same forever.

 

On the death of Rudolph Valentino in 1926 from Golden Silents:

 

In August, 1926, Valentino was rushed suddenly to a hospital in New York, with a perforated ulcer. He died an agonizing death from blood poisoning and pleurisy. She would have no real reason to lie, but actress and paramour Pola Negri in her autobiography stated that Valentino was concerned about a receding hairline and was taking a drug - probably illegal - to stop his hair loss. Could the drug have precipitated his death at such a young age?

 

When his death was announced, many American women became hysterical. Some fans committed suicide. Rioting broke out in the crowds who were waiting to see his open coffin at his public viewing (though they didn't know that his body had been replaced by a wax dummy - a second casket in a back room contained his real body). Valentino's corpse traveled cross country by train, and he was laid to rest in what was originally intended to be a temporary gravesite in a Hollywood cemetery, generously donated by his scriptwriter after it had been discovered Rudy was broke at the time of his death. However Valentino remains in that crypt till this very day, right next to his scriptwriter and her husband, and that section of the cemetery is off-limits to the public. After his death, Valentino's fan clubs developed into cults, and the public's huge reaction to his death did not go unnoticed in the financial districts. Due to Valentino, and his sensational death, movies were finally recognized by Wall Street as a legitimate, lucrative business.

 

http://www.goldensilents.com/stars/rudolphvalentino.html

[NorthSideSox72]

But the publics obsession with stars, and the craze a stars death reaches, has been the same forever.

 

On the death of Rudolph Valentino in 1926 from Golden Silents:

http://www.goldensilents.com/stars/rudolphvalentino.html

Just because its been around, doesn't make it any more sensical. And I'd venture a guess its worse now than it was before, for a number of different reasons.