Miscellaneous and Weird News

I am sure it was a mere accident Muzzammil Hassan mistook his beloved wife, Aasiya, for a block of cheese.

It's NOT an honor killing, by the way. Making an excuse for a brutal murder is a crock of shit.
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The Smackdown of the Year can be viewed right here.
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California AG Jerry Brown has his priorities straight.
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Nadya Suleman says she expects two of her eight babies to be home as early as Monday.
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Smith Watch.

We finally know who the daddy is.

Smith Watch.

Howard K. Stern decided to thrown in the towel regarding the DNA tests.

Smith Watch.

It was an accident, after all.

Smith Watch.

This is disgusting.

I have read this week's National Enquirer which has some new "revelations" about Smith's death.

Smith Watch.

The autopsy report has been delayed until which time there are enough viewers to boost network ratings.

Another chapter in the long soap opera of Anna Nicole Smith finally ended today when she got buried in the Bahamas. (J. Pat Carter, AP)

Smith Watch.

Anna Nicole has left Florida for good.
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The whole circus made Broward County medical examiner Dr. Joshua Perper a household name.

His somewhat misshapened head is a result of having been accidentally dropped as a small child, and a blood clot thickened part of his skull.
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Smith Watch.

Employees at the medical examiner's office in Florida can now breathe, as Anna Nicole Smith's decomposing body will be removed and sent to the Bahamas to be planted.

Focus will now be on when or if James Brown will finally be planted.

Smith Watch.

The more this body thing drags out, the more I believe both Smith and her son should be cremated and scattered over the Atlantic.

By the time this nonsense is over with, her body will stink so bad from decomposition, nobody will attend the funeral.

Smith Watch.

It appears Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas before she stinks the morgue up too much.

Howard Kurtz

mentioned this survey noting the most important story by far last week was the death of Anna Nicole Smith, at least in terms of air time. Forget the war in Iraq, forget Congress or the White House, forget Scooter Libby, forget the 2008 presidential campaign, even. Anna Nicole trumped them all.

In this survey, Smith came in third, but that was taken in the week when Smith died on the EIGHTH, not on the fourth.

Well, it was a ratings boost, no doubt of it. Frankly, many people will tune out other stories.

Kurtz mentioned that perhaps other people would tune out because of the obsession, but I don't think as many people would tune out as would tune it. Smith's case is so utterly bizarre, it's more fascinating than a train wreck.

Smith Watch.

A doctor who prescribed drugs to Smith claims his actions were entirely appropriate.
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Smith Watch.

The will came out today, and it was a weird one, to say the least.

I suspect in the end, the daughter will inherit the entire estate, if there is anything to inherit.

But it'll be a contest for the goodies, that's for sure.

That article is good:

Larry Seidlin has sat in the crowded circuit court all week, encircled by the warring parties. He used to be a New York taxi driver, and it has shown in the many interjections he has made at crucial points in the proceedings. When the question of paternity arose, the parties squabbled over whether Smith's body should be released or held for further DNA tests. Judge Seidlin's response? "The body belongs to me now," and "that baby is in a cold, cold storage room". Later, after a post-hearing massage, the judge conceded to the South Florida Sun-Sentinel that he might have used more measured language. "I should have just said 'the body is under the jurisdiction of the court now'," he said. Yesterday was the third day in a row he heard legal argument over the fate of the body, the burial, the DNA tests and paternity suits. Amid it all, Judge Seidlin has kept his eye on the bigger picture, even adopting a Middle East peace metaphor to describe the issue over the burial. "I want you to give me a road map of where I go here," he said yesterday.

Smith Watch.

While a judge has ordered another DNA test, Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband has decided he's going to get a DNA test to see if he can mooch off of Smith's possibly lucrative estate.

Smith Watch.

The custody battle now includes the late star's corpse.

This is getting downright macabre.

Smith Watch.

Zsa Zsa's husband, the one with the bought title, says he wants DNA testing on Anna Nicole's baby.

Supposedly there were a slew of drugs found in her hotel room.

Smith Watch.

Anna Nicole's father wants answers as to why she died.

He also doesn't think much of her half-sister's claims about ANS preserving her second husband's sperm for future use.

Smith Watch II.

According to this article, Anna Nicole Smith told a "friend" two days before she died that she simply couldn't "go on" anymore.

One onlooker said: "She just looked out of it. She was so unsteady on her feet she had to hold on to Howard. Everything looked a struggle for her."

She had flown in from the Bahamas and told hotel staff she was feeling "great" and asked if there were any events going on that she could attend.

But once up in her suite, surrounded by anti-depressants and —according to some US reports yesterday—narcotics, Anna's world of pain closed in on her.

She was still grieving over son Daniel, 20, who died of a drugs overdose last September three days after she gave birth to her daughter Dannielynn.

She had just been hit by a lawsuit claiming slimming pills she promoted were bogus. And the heiress, who has been battling for a share of her late oil baron husband J Howard Marshall's $1 billion estate, was facing paternity lawsuits over her baby daughter.

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Could it be that Dannielynn's daddy is dead?

Anna Nicole Smith's death became even more bizarre than her life yesterday as a series of bombshell revelations uncovered an ever-growing web of sexual intrigue - including the startling claim that her late billionaire husband may be the father of her infant daughter.

The stunning disclosure comes in a no-holds-barred manuscript written by her half-sister Donna Hogan obtained exclusively by the Daily News.

Hogan alleges that her sister froze the sperm of 90-year-old J. Howard Marshall years ago, and believes she may have used it to become pregnant.

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Smith Watch.

Smith's death was a classic case of perfect timing.

Unfortunately, the Astronut Attempted Murder Case had to take a backseat to more important matters such as this.

But in truth, it raises more serious questions about the state of journalism today:

What makes this of more than passing interest is that serious American journalism is in the process of transforming itself into a new, hybrid news medium that combines traditional print and broadcast with a more purposefully articulated online presence. One of the latter's most seductive attributes is its ability to gauge readers' appetites for a particular story on a minute-to-minute basis. What you get is something like the familiar television ratings — though constantly updated, if you choose to treat them that way.

It's all about ratings. Smith, like Jayne Mansfield, knew how to promote herself, whether for good or for bad. That was true even in death.

The twist here is that the internet was front and center in keeping this death in the headlines.