Guzzo - I'm still waiting for you to answer my questions, surely ignoring them is disrepectful to me and perhaps even others on the board who may be interested in your insightful wisdom about orphans.
No PM's either thanks - just reply on here.
And given your touching compassion for orphans, did you know that there are over 40 million orphans in sub saharan Africa alone? How often does the plight of these people cross your mind? Have you seen any articles about this in the main stream media lately? Can you tell me how many children have been orphaned in Iraq since the American war on terror rolled into that country?
Dude: your argument is fantastically unsuited to this thread.
Seeing as you are so concerned with sub-saharan orphans, i suggest you sell your computer and donate the money to African orphans.
As a bonus we wont have to read your drivel.
Anna Nicole Smith: Damn... i heard the 1st of what im sure will be many Marilyn Monroe comparisons today. RIP.
Shying away from the topic of disrespect, it's always sad to see anyone screw up their life and those around them but the media comparing Anna Nicole Smith to Marilyn Monroe seems at the least retarded. Jayne Mansfield would probably be a little closer to the mark.
I actually kind of disagree with you. If marilyn monroe were alive in this day in age- she would probably on some lindsay lohan steez. she died under similar circumstances to ANS. there is a much different level of involvement from the press nowadays. monroe would be much more in the public eye. would the affair with both Kennedy's fly in this day in age??? Monroe is completely romanticized nowadays.
Don't get me wrong, I have no doubt that Monroe's treatment by the media of today compared to that of the sixties would have left a very different image in the public's eye at the time of death. I was more referring to the fact that Monroe, despite the focus on her private life, was actually a pretty decent actress while, Anna, may she rest in peace, was most definitely not.
Minutes after word of the death of stripper-turned-celebrity Anna Nicole Smith, the blogosphere began the autopsy of a life lived in the headlines, and the verdict wasn't at all pretty. From different corners of the Internet, commentators who once considered Smith worthy only of off-color jokes purported to seek out the deeper cultural meanings of her death. Most came up brutally short.
Instead many observers reveled in jokes about the size of the former Playboy model's breasts or the extent of her drug problems--topics thought to be fair game in the world of celebrity gossip.
Blog search site Technorati.com showed mentions of Anna Nicole Smith spiked fivefold on Thursday. Still, at little over 44,000 mentions, Smith measures only one-tenth the blog star power of pop music sensation Britney Spears.
The occasion gave free rein to the pseudonymous savagery which passes for informed commentary on the Web.
Such cruelty contrasted with the tone of respectful shock used in blanket coverage of her death on cable television.
"Anna Nicole Smith's condition downgraded to dead," one writer on news commentary site Fark.com coldly noted. Thousands of visitors had posted remarks within hours of her death. Fark commentator "LikelyCulprit" posted a photo of a beached whale entitled "preliminary autopsy photo."
A little over an hour after word of Smith's death at age 39 was splashed across CNN television, a memorial open discussion about her was created at www.annanicolesmithdies.com.
A player at a macabre celebrity death pool site won double points by predicting Smith. Other picks for 2007 included Fidel Castro and horror film actor Christopher Lee.
TMZ.com, a celebrity site that shot to fame with revelations about actor Mel Gibson, bemoaned how Smith's last movie, "Illegal Aliens," set to be released in April, may now be in doubt.
AOL, the parent company of the celebrity dirt-digging site, was quick to provide a trailer of the film.
Meanwhile, grainy video footage of paramedics working on Smith's unresponsive body turned up on the Internet and on German television on Friday. The brief video, shot by the Los Angeles-based Splash News and Picture Agency, captures Smith being wheeled on a stretcher on Thursday from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla.
Paramedics can be seen pumping her body as she is lifted on to an ambulance. One paramedic is seen operating an oxygen pump. She was pronounced dead in the hospital but the cause is yet to be determined.
Now on News.com: Viacom moves on without YouTube Sun likes what it sees in the new GPL Photos: In Chicago, a car show gets into gear Extra: EMI in talks to sell unprotected MP3s Splash said it had sold the rights for $500,000 to a buyer it declined to identify. The footage showed up on several Internet sites and on German's RTL TV channel.
Splash news editor Paul Tetley said he expected the footage to eventually fetch about $1 million.
"The first rights deal was for $500,000. It is a piece of footage that will continue to play and play because it was a moment of history," he said in a telephone interview.
Tetley defended the selling of the footage. "It captures the vain battle to save her life. People want to know what happened," he said. "It was good journalism. We knew where she was staying, we sent in a team of photographers and cameras and we were in the right place at the right time."
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Don't get me wrong, I have no doubt that Monroe's treatment by the media of today compared to that of the sixties would have left a very different image in the public's eye at the time of death. I was more referring to the fact that Monroe, despite the focus on her private life, was actually a pretty decent actress while, Anna, may she rest in peace, was most definitely not.
Ladies and gentlemen, the moment you've been waiting for:
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the "I'd blap" icon in a thread about a dead person.
By Reuters
http://news.com.com/Web+response+swift+and+brutal+to+Anna+Nicole+death/2100-1026_3-6157984.html
Story last modified Fri Feb 09 11:21:50 PST 2007
Minutes after word of the death of stripper-turned-celebrity Anna Nicole Smith, the blogosphere began the autopsy of a life lived in the headlines, and the verdict wasn't at all pretty.
From different corners of the Internet, commentators who once considered Smith worthy only of off-color jokes purported to seek out the deeper cultural meanings of her death. Most came up brutally short.
Instead many observers reveled in jokes about the size of the former Playboy model's breasts or the extent of her drug problems--topics thought to be fair game in the world of celebrity gossip.
Blog search site Technorati.com showed mentions of Anna Nicole Smith spiked fivefold on Thursday. Still, at little over 44,000 mentions, Smith measures only one-tenth the blog star power of pop music sensation Britney Spears.
The occasion gave free rein to the pseudonymous savagery which passes for informed commentary on the Web.
Such cruelty contrasted with the tone of respectful shock used in blanket coverage of her death on cable television.
"Anna Nicole Smith's condition downgraded to dead," one writer on news commentary site Fark.com coldly noted. Thousands of visitors had posted remarks within hours of her death. Fark commentator "LikelyCulprit" posted a photo of a beached whale entitled "preliminary autopsy photo."
A little over an hour after word of Smith's death at age 39 was splashed across CNN television, a memorial open discussion about her was created at www.annanicolesmithdies.com.
A player at a macabre celebrity death pool site won double points by predicting Smith. Other picks for 2007 included Fidel Castro and horror film actor Christopher Lee.
TMZ.com, a celebrity site that shot to fame with revelations about actor Mel Gibson, bemoaned how Smith's last movie, "Illegal Aliens," set to be released in April, may now be in doubt.
AOL, the parent company of the celebrity dirt-digging site, was quick to provide a trailer of the film.
Meanwhile, grainy video footage of paramedics working on Smith's unresponsive body turned up on the Internet and on German television on Friday. The brief video, shot by the Los Angeles-based Splash News and Picture Agency, captures Smith being wheeled on a stretcher on Thursday from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Fla.
Paramedics can be seen pumping her body as she is lifted on to an ambulance. One paramedic is seen operating an oxygen pump. She was pronounced dead in the hospital but the cause is yet to be determined.
Now on News.com:
Viacom moves on without YouTube
Sun likes what it sees in the new GPL
Photos: In Chicago, a car show gets into gear
Extra: EMI in talks to sell unprotected MP3s
Splash said it had sold the rights for $500,000 to a buyer it declined to identify. The footage showed up on several Internet sites and on German's RTL TV channel.
Splash news editor Paul Tetley said he expected the footage to eventually fetch about $1 million.
"The first rights deal was for $500,000. It is a piece of footage that will continue to play and play because it was a moment of history," he said in a telephone interview.
Tetley defended the selling of the footage. "It captures the vain battle to save her life. People want to know what happened," he said. "It was good journalism. We knew where she was staying, we sent in a team of photographers and cameras and we were in the right place at the right time."
Story Copyright ?? 2007 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved.
Copyright ??1995-2007 CNET Networks, Inc. All rights reserved.