The topic for this edition of Ass Hat Awards is celebrities. Now that's a ripe area for many choices for an Ass Hat Award. So I thought long and hard, almost too long and hard, today is Friday the deadline, and I have decided that the celebrity for me that deserves an Ass Hat is Anna Nicole Smith.
But she's dead you might say. Isn't that kind of kicking someone when they're down? (So to speak.) I say she brought it all on herself while she was alive. She lived for attention and went to almost any lengths to keep herself in the eyes of the public.
Isn't it time for the tabloids to move on? I list Anna Nicole in that category of celebrities being famous for being famous. Aside from a few dreadful movies, a terrible reality show (created after she was already famous for being famous) and posing naked Anna Nicole did not leave behind a very lasting legacy.
All these comparisons to Marylin Monroe are ridiciolous. Marylin left behind a legacy of wonderful films and a growing comedic genusis. I'm not saying Anna Nicole's death wasn't a tradegy, but it was a personal tragedy to those that knew her and loved her, not to the world. One newsman (and I use that term loosesly) called her death "an American Tragedy." Sorry, I don't think so.
All this press on who fathered her baby has gone on too long. Besides Howard K. Stern and Larry Birkhead claiming to be the father there were also Alexander Denk (a former bodyguard of Anna Nicole), Mark "Hollywood" Hatten, Frédéric Prinz von Anhalt (Zsa Zsa Gabor's former husband who claimed Anna Nicole and he had a decade long affair) and in what has to be one of the most weird claims Donna Hogan, Anna Nicole's younger half sister claims that Anna Nicole froze the sperm of her dead billionaire husband and had impregentated herself with said sperm. Would any of this matter if the baby wasn't potentially going to be worth the gross national product of some small countries?
I'm sick and tired of turning on the tv and hearing about it all. Not just on the entertainment shows, but even the national news shows have made it a feautre item. When news that the DNA showed Larry Birkhead as the father some networks broke in to announce it. This is not news!
My nomination for Ass Hat Celebritity goes to Anna Nicole Smith for her continued climb towards stardom and her ability to not let anything get in her way, even death. 
4 comments:
I would have picked Paris Hilton...
Yeah, that's another one that was on my list, but I haven't seen much of her lately so she squeeked by. It seems I can't turn on the tv or turn around with hearing about Anna Nicole.
Yeah...I know...
I think I'm just a sucker for the underdog and downtrodden...which, when you look at the roots of Anna Nicole(or rather Vickie Lynn-the perfect 'trailer trash' name)or Britney Spears...both came from some pretty simple broken homes and meager environments...
Despite the limelight Anna Nicole insisted upon...she was in search of filling some void that could never be filled...She wanted to be Cinderella...And although she seemed to believe that happiness was achieved through money and a person's success and happiness was gauged by what they had...she seemed to be a scrapper to get the money and notoriety that she hoped was the key...Let's face the facts...she wasn't ever going to be a rocket scientist...she was pretty limited intellectually... and what she had, was what people wanted...
In the end, it's again a life lesson that money doesn't buy you happiness...but then again, would working for minimum wage in some unknown town while trying to raise a handful of kids as a single parent be any better??? I don't know...who am I to judge, really...
And then there's my intolerance for Paris Hilton...she has no talent either...all she has is her family's name...Yeah, lot's of struggles in life for Paris, eh? This one doesn't even have a clue what it's like to be on the other side of the tracks...
I'm just rambling...don't mind me...;-)
Oh, I agree about Paris. If she had been in the news recently (or if I had at least seen it) she would have won this spot easily. I can't stand Paris. The one time I actually saw part of an episode of her reality show I thought it was so bad, so condenscending. It showed how she lacked any clue to what real life was about. Take her money away and she wouldn't last a day in the real world.
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