An Anna Nicole Smith Movie! Who Cares?

Anna Nicole Smith's untimely demise was covered by just about every news and media outlet in the known universe. Her death received just slightly less airtime then the moon landing or Real World reruns on MTV. Now it is being reported that a movie is in the works. This movie will detail the life and times, including the tragic end, of Anna Nicole Smith.

I couldn't care less.

I mean it. It would be impossible for me to care any less than I do right now. It's not just that I don't care about this movie. I don't care about Anna Nicole Smith in general. I didn't care when she was in Playboy. I didn't care when she married a man 239 years old. I didn't care when that guy died and she got his money. I didn't care when his family sued her. I didn't care when she had her own television show. I didn't care when she lost weight. I didn't even care when she died.

Don't misunderstand me. I do not wish death upon anybody other than those unfortunately individuals in immense pain and the guy who shot John Lennon. I wasn't happy when Anna Nicole Smith was found dead. I just didn't care. It didn't phase me. Sadly, we live in a world where countless people die everyday. Anna Nicole Smith was no different.

Or at least that's what I thought. Boy was I wrong. In one of the most absurd pieces of "journalism" I have ever seen, every major news station covered this story. They actually broke into their normal broadcasts just to discuss the life of Anna Nicole Smith.

Then it was reported that there was a controversy about the true father of her baby girl. This has been my favorite part of the whole saga. One day I made the mistake of turning on MSNBC to, you know, find out what was going on in the world. I caught the end of a report about the war in Iraq. An American soldier had just been killed. At the end of that story the news anchor (I can't remember which) moved on to talk to a writer for some entertainment magazine so that the two could discuss Anna Nicole Smith's baby.

Amazing.