Thank You Times Online For Loving Cranky Grammy

Thank you Michael Moran at Times Online for quoting me and including my blog entry about Anna Nicole Smith in his article yesterday. Here it is for you to enjoy.

Anna-Nicole Smith: The internet responds












By Michael Moran

In the weeks since Anna-Nicole Smith’s death many ostensibly serious news outlets have displaced major current events stories in order to satisfy the public’s ravenous hunger for details about the demise of this very 21st-century celebrity.

That’s as nothing though compared to the veritable explosion of blog posts looking for significance, sentiment, or a whiff of suspicion in the court case which has followed her meteoric burnout. As Hollywood.com suggests, Anna-Nicole would probably be thrilled could she but have known that reaction to her death would echo, however faintly, the enduring wave of sentimentality engendered by the death of Marilyn Monroe. Wildstarz takes the comparison further, revelling in that perennial bloggers' hobby-horse, the conspiracy theory. Concurring opinions gives us a lawyer’s take on the unseemly squabble over her millions, while Bodogbeat offers us an oleaginous portrait of Howard K.Stern, the lawyer at the centre of the case. Celebrific is similarly damning, outlining the scale of his financial motivation.

Mr.Stern is also shown in court as Live Leak carries a video of the judge's emotional summing up at the end of the curious legal squabble over her remains. Stern is by no means the only competitor in the unseemly competition to lay claim to the paternity of Anna-Nicole's recently born daughter, Dannielynn Hope, and by extension her vast fortune, as Celebrity Hack wryly illustrates with a handy wall-chart.

As befits a life lived principally for the benefit of the cameras, Anna-Nicole is well represented on YouTube: everything from a mawkish tribute which wil surely interest Elton John's publishers to a home video showing us Ms Smith pregnant, altered, and wearing makeup that we should warn you may unnerve the more delicate viewer.

Families.com reminds us that, behind all the noise, this should ultimately be seen as just another sad waste of a young life. But then again, as Cranky Grammy points out so acerbically: while she was alive, nobody really liked poor Anna-Nicole anyway.

Cranky Grammy

But Nobody Liked Anna Nicole Smith!

I am utterly disgusted by the press and their attempt to cover the Anna Nicole Smith saga.
The entire situation has turned into a media circus. And good gracious, I don't see why anybody cares.

















Before Anna died, she was the laughingstock of Hollywood. I don't know how many good things ever came out of someone's mouth about that woman. But I know it wasn't much.
No one liked Anna Nicole Smith.
She was a drunken, washed up, self medicating has been. And an annoying one at that.
The only stories you would ever hear about her was how she had been intoxicated at some event and how she had either taken her clothes off or let them slide off her body. She couldn't even be a good presenter let alone actress.
No one liked Anna Nicole.
Aside from the times when she was young and vibrant and modeling for Guess, she was going nowhere.
Her reality show was watched for nothing but utter amusement. People liked to watch the slurring fat pig mope around her pink palace and complain, and sometimes eat ice cream in bed. She was a joke. To the business, to her fans, and to herself. Anna was a self absorbed drug addict who wallowed in her own misery.
Probably because no one liked her.
And then along came Trimpspa.
At first it was Anna's miraculous comeback. The media was all over her, she was thin again and seemed to have her self confidence back. She claimed she owed it all to TrimSpa. Highly unlikely. I would suffice to say that Anna either had surgery or used drugs to lose that weight, then possibly moved on to TrimSpa to help keep it off. Soon after the novelty wore off and people were once again tired of Anna Nicole. Skinny or fat, she was still the same annoying sloppy Anna Nicole.
Because no one liked Anna Nicole to begin with.
Then the news of Anna Nicole and her pregnancy. Most everyone felt the way I did when I heard about it. "What the hell for?!" Anna was never cut out to be a mother and we all knew it. I also think that we all knew that something bad was going to happen. And it did. And that wasn't just because we didn't like Anna Nicole, it was just plain common sense.
So Anna Nicole is dead. Now everyone loves Anna, and feels so, so sorry for her. The Anna Nicole Smith bandwagon is rolling through town everyone, hop on with your bleeding hearts.

Cranky Grammy

Britney Spears' Downward Spiral

I really do feel that little Miss Pop Star is going to have a suicide attempt in the near future. That poor girl is taking drastic measures to ensure that the warning signs are all in place. But is anyone doing anything about it? I haven't seen a picture of Britney Spears and her mother -or any sort of role model- in months.
I fear for this child because she reminds me of a granddaughter of mine. So naive and beautiful but so goddamn dumb at times. If she were my grandchild I tell you what, I'd be flying my ass straight to wherever it was that she happened to be. And forget that speak softly and carry a big stick, I'd be yanking that child by the collar and marching her ass straight to grandma's house for some Granny Law and she wouldn't be leaving until her shit had been straightened out. Don't get me wrong, I would also love that child like no tomorrow. Because tomorrow is something that might not come for this kid.

Cranky Grammy

Howard K. Stern Killed Anna Nicole Smith

This is just a theory of mine, but I believe in a woman's intuition. This Howard gentleman (and I use the term loosely) took full advantage of Anna for many years.
This man had a sick obsession with her, even a little old woman like myself could figure that out. When Anna's son, Daniel, first died I immediately thought about that Howard character as well. I figured that he wanted to take out his competition so to speak.
Then when Anna died last week I thought that perhaps she was threatening to leave him or something and that led to his causing her overdose. Which think about it, how hard would it be? Just slip a lethal dose of that liquid heroin in her drink and the job would be done. Everyone knows about Anna's drug addictions so it's not like anyone would be pointing the finger at Howard right? Wrong.
You can bet your bottom dollar that this bug eyed obsessive man will somehow be at the bottom of all this. And don't expect him to get away with it either.

Cranky Grammy