For fun, I just put Anna Nicole Smith in to my Yahoo search engine … I got 35 million hits. I kid you not … 35 million hits in .08 seconds. Seems everyone is STILL intrigued with Anna Nicole almost two years after her death. Her story doesn’t just have legs … it has a torso and a mind of its own.
It cracks me up how everyone has an opinion on this story. Every blogger has a conspiracy theory. And every writer has to put in their two-cents’ worth.
So, of course, here’s mine …
Back when I use to be somebody in this town, I had the opportunity to interview Anna Nicole. Cleary, she was bombed out of her mind during the interview. The interview was so incredibly lame … it was obvious she wasn’t the only one who, uh, bombed. I was trapped in an Anna Nicole blitzkrieg!
Toward the end of the interview, I was lobbing softball questions just for fun. “Anna, pop quiz! How many people were in The Jackson Five?” “Anna, when was the War of 1812?” She got most of ’em right … after a 10-20 second pause to look off camera.
I cut my teeth as an Entertainment Reporter/Producer. You name the star … I’ve probably interviewed ’em. And now, at my big boy job, I visit schools to talk to students about their career plans. Believe me, I treat each and every graduate like they are famous and worthy of telling their stories.
According to the Holy Grail, Wikipedia, Anna Nicole Smith only had an 8th grade education … dropping out of high school while she was a freshman. And while she went on to mad-crazy success, it makes me wonder what sort of life she would have had if she had the brains BEHIND the beauty. Or maybe she did. I guess we’ll never know.
So to every single kid I’ve interviewed who went back to school and made something of themselves … congrats and kudos … you deserve nothing but good things. And to every single self-absorbed star I’ve interviewed, I leave you with this: Looks fade … but dumb is forever.