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I once did an interview with Anna Nicole in her pink Hollywood mansion, although it was unlike any traditional interview I've ever done. It was back in the days when she was even more of a mess than usual (she was overweight, drugged out of her mind, and had just had a roller skating accident that rendered her bedridden). Despite all this, I have to admit that in person, she had the face of an angel. Seriously. Beautiful, delicate features and gorgeous skin that refused to shudder under the stress of drug use and an infamously poor diet. (She drank a couple of Frappachino's and downed a foot long in the time I was there.) Does simply being beautiful warrant fame? Maybe not (although it does, perhaps it shouldn't), but that was just my superficial observation at the time.
She's always been an easy target to make fun of, even after her death, but I always had a soft spot for her. Did she charm me? No. In fact, I would say she was more like the antithesis of charismatic. Still, another observation that I could never shake was how shy and alienated her son Daniel behaved, and how creepy and controlling Howard K. Stern seemed, and wonder if she had fallen under better influence, well... To me, she came across as a rather simple minded, scrappy poor girl from Texas who was desperate to get by, and she was eventually shattered by her fame. I can only say this half earnestly, because meeting a celebrity doesn't mean you know them. And according to so many people who were physically close to her, no one really knew her very well at all.
Okay, enough uh, deep thoughts. What prompted this tender trip down memory lane was the fact that this video, a Cliff's Notes if you will, of her new biopic starring Willa Ford has been making the rounds. While yes, it's somewhat entertaining and at times, unintentionally hilarious, I think a more genuine, tastefully done probe into her life could have been quite fascinating (if not, terribly tragic and sad), but instead, this is like, the worst quality soft porn ever. Watch the video and tell us, what do you think?
