Marilyn Monroe and Anna Nicole Smith “Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.”-Marilyn Monroe, she proved that to the world. Marilyn was a mysterious young woman who changed the world by being proud of her curvy body. Following in her footsteps was Anna Nicole Smith, Marilyn was her biggest idol, she even looked exactly like her. Marilyn Monroe and Anna Nicole Smith, two of beautiful, memorable, confident Hollywood Icons amazed
The months of February and March of 2007 celebrity deaths due to depression scarred the news. Comedian Richard Jeni, Richard Delp of the rock group Boston and the most noted Anna Nicole Smith depression related deaths scored front page headlines. Their deaths expose many questions surrounding the events. Most of them left to the wind as open-ended quandaries. If you are like most people, you question the role of those that were supposed to care for them. The answer many times is not as you imagined
In Alisa Miller's presentation, How the News Distorts Our Worldview, she enlightens the audience on how, as Americans we are only educated on an extremely small percentage of what is happening in the world today. The context of this speech is important because before the speech is even shown, one of the first sentences seen on the Ted Talk website is how Miller is the Ceo of Public Radio International, so before she even speaks, her accomplished background has granted her credibility amongst the
“Hi-ya, sport, you look you could use a good stiff drink?” a good-sized man said to Glenn as he handed him his champagne flute. “Here, take mine.” “You’re… you’re, John Candy,” Glenn managed to utter as he gazed upon one of his favorite actors. “Guilty as charged,” Candy replied with a chuckle. “And that’s Janis Joplin, Donna Reed, and Rita Hayworth over there. Now, if you look to your right, you will see Walter Cronkite and Kurt Cobain shooting-the-shit on the couch over there. And, that’s
of 1992, famous play director Gordon Davidson approached Anna Deavere Smith to put on a theater production based on the Los Angeles riots. The play premiered one year after the incident occurred and was named “Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992”, after an ex-gang member who left a lasting impression on Smith with his views on racial barriers. “Twilight’s recognition that we must reach across ethnic boundaries is simple but true.” (Smith xxvi). Smith interviewed hundreds of people from different ethnic backgrounds
mother, Vickie eventually dropped out of school and married Billy Smith at the age of 17. As a teenager, Smith worked at a local fried chicken restaurant. A year after the nuptials, she gave birth to a baby boy by the name of Daniel for which she claims she devoted her life. The marriage to Billy was short lived, and within a year after the birth of their son, she divorced him (Anna, 2008). She was not content with small town life. Smith quoted that, "She was going to be the next Marilyn Monroe". As
still victims of the opera, with Turnage’s Anna Nicole Smith descending into a debilitating drug habit and madness after her son dies in her arms. The essay will set out to examine whether Smith fits with opera’s longstanding stereotype of the “fallen woman;” a female whose choices (or lack thereof) often lead to destitution, mental and physical illness, violence and, frequently, death. Focusing on the definition of the ‘fallen woman’ suggests that Smith does conform to the trope through the representation
coronary artery disease. Stollone was found dead by his housekeeper in his Los Angeles home. Daniel Wayne Smith was the son of model and actress Anna Nicole. In September of 2006, Smith died of an accidental overdosed while visiting his mother in the hospital due to a lethal combination of methadone, Zoloft and Lexapro, three days after the birth to his half-sister, Dannielynn Hope Marshall. Smith was only 20 years old. Michael Blosil the son of Marie Osmand committed suicided in 2010 by jumping of
In Anthony Dimaggio’s chapter Propaganda, Celebrity Gossip, and the Decline of News the author protests against the idea that the press presents objective and balance within their reporting or event that they exist independently or semi-independent of government and are instead propagandistic. Through reliance on celebrity news, corporate media effectively divert attention from critical political media – manufacturing consent and marginalize dissidents through entertainment media. Mass communication
occasions, Edwin Tobergta was caught having sex with inanimate objects in public. On three instances, he was caught on the side of the road having sex with pool noodles, and in 2002, he even pleasured himself with a pumpkin. Number Five: A Car. Edward Smith is not ashamed of his sexual attraction to cars. He has allegedly had sex with over 1,000 cars, and his favorite is a pink Volkswagen Beetle named "Vanilla." We won't ask why. Number Four: A Mannequin. This story is much more strange than sexual