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 Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 4:31 pm Post subject: Why is Anna N Smith's death news worthy anyway? |
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You can say "I don't think it is" but Damelon posted this in another thread and it obvious that a boatload of people do:
| Damelon wrote: | In this morning's Chicago Tribune:
| Quote: | | But news of Smith's death Thursday lit up the Internet and sent mouses clicking far and wide. Between 3 and 4 p.m., chicagotribune.com set a record for most traffic on the Web site since its creation in 1996. The next hour set a new record. |
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What I find interesting about her in particular is her lack of accomplishment earning her celebrity status.
Or did she just happen to be lucky enough to die during a slow news cycle?
As much as I also can't stand the paparazzi hounding movie celebs I at least understand it a little. Movie stars at least give some kind of entertaining/enjoyment back.
What has ANS ever done?
She was a Guess jeans model that got some attention because she wasn't anorexic.
Then she married a half dead millionaire....who fully died a few months later.
Then she went to court for a decade to get his money that she didn't deserve.
Then she appeared every once in a while on the Howard Stern radio show where she was mocked as a drunken fat slob.
The she got her own cable TV show where she showed the world that she was truely a drunken fat slob.
Then she got thin.
Then she died on drugs choking on her own vomit.
Her life was such a mess that now they're fighting to retrieve DNA from her to determine who in fact the father of her kid is.
Wait, why does my ANS eulogy make her sound interesting?
[I edited this to be a little more specific to the topic of news rather than a human interest story]
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| Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:14 pm Post subject: |
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Because she was, despite all those failures, or perhaps because of ithem, a human being.
To say | Mr T wrote: | | I pity the fool... |
seems a bit harsh. |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 5:26 pm Post subject: |
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This should probably be cominbined with the Anna Nicole Smith is Dead topic, but to answer the q...
You don't have to care. The media cares becuase she was a celebrity, and one who was tied to salaciousness.
I summed it up yesterday. It is a uniquely american tragedy. Within 9 mos you'll have a network movie about her life and death. Certainly by November sweeps.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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Anna Nicole Smith is someone that everyone feels that they can mock and ridicule publicly with impunity. So everyone that has a strong need to mock and ridicule someone publicly with impunity will come out of the wordwork to do so.
Kevins Watch is just a case in point.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:24 pm Post subject: |
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Wayfriend, I'm going to pretentiously quote myself...
| Trapper439 wrote: | | Because she was, despite all those failures, or perhaps because of them, a human being. |
Feel free to publicly ridicule me with impunity.
The way we humans treat other is surely some despicable joke... |
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| Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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| Wayfriend wrote: | Anna Nicole Smith is someone that everyone feels that they can mock and ridicule publicly with impunity. So everyone that has a strong need to mock and ridicule someone publicly with impunity will come out of the wordwork to do so.
Kevins Watch is just a case in point. |
Which, apparently you yourself are unable to hold back from doing so to others. 
She embraced the media and reveled in it's attention, death will not spare her from my ridicule.
But I am interested in why she was a celeb at all.
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| Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2007 11:48 pm Post subject: Re: Why is Anna N Smith's death news worthy anyway? |
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| High Lord Tolkien wrote: | You can say "I don't think it is" but Damelon posted this in another thread and it obvious that a boatload of people do:
| Damelon wrote: | In this morning's Chicago Tribune:
| Quote: | | But news of Smith's death Thursday lit up the Internet and sent mouses clicking far and wide. Between 3 and 4 p.m., chicagotribune.com set a record for most traffic on the Web site since its creation in 1996. The next hour set a new record. |
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What I find interesting about her in particular is her lack of accomplishment earning her celebrity status.
Or did she just happen to be lucky enough to die during a slow news cycle?
As much as I also can't stand the paparazzi hounding movie celebs I at least understand it a little. Movie stars at least give some kind of entertaining/enjoyment back.
What has ANS ever done?
[I edited this to be a little more specific to the topic of news rather than a human interest story] |
Now, wait a second. Not that I am a fan of hers, but:
| Quote: | | She was a Guess jeans model that got some attention because she wasn't anorexic. |
And this is bad because ... ?
| Quote: | | Then she married a half dead millionaire....who fully died a few months later. |
Ok and so ......
| Quote: | | Then she went to court for a decade to get his money that she didn't deserve. |
Ummmm she was married to him, and he did leave her the money. The judge ruled in her favor, obvioulsy in the eyes of the Law she did deserve it. So again.... whats your point?
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Then she appeared every once in a while on the Howard Stern radio show where she was mocked as a drunken fat slob. |
And who has Howard not mocked?
| Quote: | | The she got her own cable TV show where she showed the world that she was truely a drunken fat slob. |
OK, I cannot argue this one.
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Then she got thin. |
OK, and so this is bad because???
| Quote: | | Then she died on drugs choking on her own vomit. |
That is absolutely not true. They have yet to find a cause of death; there were no drugs found in her stomach, and no vomit. This is slander. But dont trust me, look at the article :
www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/09/smith.dies/index.html :
| Quote: | Perper said there was no indication of blunt-force trauma, asphyxiation or other physical trauma.
He said Smith had a small bruise on her back, which probably resulted from a fall in the bathtub earlier in the week.
The medical examiner said his office is awaiting results of toxicological and other tests, but there were no drugs in Smith's stomach.
He said if she had taken a large number of pills, some of the medicine would have remained in the stomach.
There also was no evidence of long-term drug abuse, Perper said.
Tiger said no evidence suggests a crime occurred and all witnesses were cooperating with the investigation.
He said police were still analyzing surveillance tapes from the hotel, but so far had seen nothing unusual. |
| Quote: | | Her life was such a mess that now they're fighting to retrieve DNA from her to determine who in fact the father of her kid is. |
That is the men talking. She never commented on the father that I am aware. How can she be responsible for what they say?
| Quote: | | Wait, why does my ANS eulogy make her sound interesting? |
Because she is a blond with giant .... personality?
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| High Lord Tolkien wrote: | | But I am interested in why she was a celeb at all. |
Not her fault; because we're like that. Because we're human.
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| She was the Paris Hilton of her time? The lawyer did it: in the Convservatory with the candlestick... |
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| HLT wrote: | | But I am interested in why she was a celeb at all. |
That's easy: because she was one of the sexiest babes ever to grace the 90's, if not THE most sexy. And her voloptuousnes was (as HLT points out) a much needed novelty. So no, ANS was not a Paris Hilton. She was the incarnation of the femme fatale of the 90's AND hotter than Georgia asphalt (and I'm not talking about the former Soviet republic).
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| Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 3:39 pm Post subject: |
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OK, but she never did a thing for me--and I like vo-lupts  (the same people who vote for American Idol are the same ones who made all those hits  ) |
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he did say "memory" right?   |
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| Prebe wrote: | | HLT wrote: | | But I am interested in why she was a celeb at all. |
That's easy: because she was one of the sexiest babes ever to grace the 90's, if not THE most sexy. And her voloptuousnes was (as HLT points out) a much needed novelty. So no, ANS was not a Paris Hilton. She was the incarnation of the femme fatale of the 90's AND hotter than Georgia asphalt (and I'm not talking about the former Soviet republic).
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Was she more popular out of American then?
Sometime fashion models are bigger (no pun intended in this case!) in Europe.
All I can remember is a few black and white Guess Jeans photos in stores and then nothing until the old man died.
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| Posted: Sat Feb 10, 2007 6:14 pm Post subject: |
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| Prebe wrote: | | That's easy: because she was one of the sexiest babes ever to grace the 90's, if not THE most sexy. And her voloptuousnes was (as HLT points out) a much needed novelty. So no, ANS was not a Paris Hilton. She was the incarnation of the femme fatale of the 90's AND hotter than Georgia asphalt (and I'm not talking about the former Soviet republic). |
I mentioned this in the GenDisc thread....She was smokin' hot. Sure she was a train wreck, so what? I wanted to do dirty things with her, and still do.
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I must of been one of the few straight males not to find ANS attractive.
Anyway, I'm already sick of the media coverage, and have no idea why it continues. Sure, it's a tragedy, but thousands of people die every day. I don't remember the pope getting this much coverage when he died. The soldiers who die in Iraq deserve more coverage than this.
I don't think I'd ever say this, but I almost want them to go back to covering Election 2008 nonstop. Heh.-jay |
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No Jay, I agree that the coverage is silly. 300 murders a year in Baltimore, but Laci Peterson gets exhaustive coverage because she had a cute smile.
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| Cail wrote: | | I mentioned this in the GenDisc thread....She was smokin' hot. Sure she was a train wreck, so what? I wanted to do dirty things with her, and still do. |
Hey buddy, the Necrophilia forum is that way ---> 
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| High Lord Tolkien wrote: | | Cail wrote: | | I mentioned this in the GenDisc thread....She was smokin' hot. Sure she was a train wreck, so what? I wanted to do dirty things with her, and still do. |
Hey buddy, the Necrophilia forum is that way --->
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Hey, toss her in the oven for a sec to warm her up!
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