Leave it to the Brits to make an opera about the life of Anna Nicole Smith.
The great masterpiece-in-the-making is set to premiere at the Covent Garden Opera in 2011.
The director of the opera, Elaine Padmore, said "It is not going to be a horrible, sleazy evening. It is not going to be tawdry; it is going to be witty, clever, thoughtful and sad. In broad outline, it will tell the story of her life, the people who influenced her, her progress. Clearly the story is about a woman who met an ancient gentleman in a wheelchair, but it's not going to be a straight narrative; choices have been made about significant moments, selecting which incidents in her life are to be built up."
Anna Nicole Smith, witty????
That's a first!
The opera will be directed by Richard Jones and the libretto will be provided by Richard Thomas, who was also the co-creator of Jerry Springer the Opera.
Padmore added, "It is not just a documentary about her, but a parable about celebrity and what it does to people. It can be moving, it can be funny and it tells universal truths about human frailty."
Does anyone out there really want to waste their money to see Anna Nicole's life as an opera?
Anna Nicole Smith's former attorney and "alleged" lover, Howard K. Stern, has sued a guy named Mark Speer (who used to work for the ex-lawyer of Anna Nicole's sperm donor, Larry Birkhead) for allegedly feeding Anna Nicole biographer, Rita Cosby, a shit storm of lies.
Guess who has come to Howard K.'s aid in his lawsuit against Speer?
None other than former rival Larry B. himself!
According to reports, Larry just filed a sworn declaration taking issue with stuff Speer supposedly told the biographer:
- Birkhead says he never told Bahamian cops Stern stole millions of bucks from Anna Nicole.
- Birkhead denies he was on a "mission" to get Stern investigated for the death of Daniel.
- Birkhead denies he and Stern horse-traded Dannielynn in return for Howard becoming executor.
Anna Nicole Smith's momma, Virgie Arthur, is out to get some Texan bloggers and TMZ for spreadin' falsehoods ’bout her on the internet which, she claims, dirtied up her reputation and lost her the rights to be the legal caretaker of granddaughter heiress, Dannielynn.
Virgie filed a complaint against said parties in a Texas state court on Monday.
Arthur's complaint stems from a story titled Virgie Has Son with Her Stepbrother posted last April on TMZ. The story implies that the couple were stepsiblings prior to their relationship, said Arthur's lawyer.
TMZ and their lawyers did not comment on the suit.
Lyndal Harrington, one of the Texan bloggers targeted by Virgie says she was shocked to hear about the lawsuit and that it's been "hard to find an attorney to stand up for (her) First Amendment rights."
Aren't there public defenders in Texas who can help the bloggers out?!! Hmm. On second thought, maybe you only get a public defender if you do something crazy like armed robbery.
After deliberating for less than two hours, a jury in the Bahamas has just determined that Anna Nicole Smith's son, Daniel Smith, died from an accidental drug overdose and is recommending no criminal charges.
The inquest began in November 2007 to determine what killed the 20-year-old.
Island police have maintained there is no evidence of homicide.
An autopsy found that Daniel likely died from a combination of drugs, including methadone and antidepressants.
The E! network is trying to distance themselves from their new Ashton Kutcher-produced show.
They wanna avoid a costly lawsuit!
Ashton's Pop Fiction is mired in controversy amidst new allegations that the show is based on a concept originally created by Anna Nicole Smith and Howard K. Stern, which they pitched to the network that aired their former reality show.
Stern was said to even follow up about it - with Larry Birkhead hosting - just a few months ago.
Now, Wednesday morning, the E! Network released the following statement:
"Pop Fiction is a program independently created and developed by Ashton Kutcher's company, Katalyst. Pop Fiction is not based on any idea or concept that may have been pitched to E! by any other party."
For those few that watched the premier of E!'s new Ashton Kutcher-produced Pop Fiction this weekend, guess what??? Turns out the concept of the show came from Anna Nicole Smith….THREE years ago!!!
The show was to be called Celebrities Strike Back, and it was pitched by Anna and her former attorney/manager/"lover" Howard K. Stern.
Seems like a lawsuit is in the happenings!
Pop Fiction seems almost identical to the treatment that Anna registered with the Writers Guild back in 2004.
Anna and Howard even pitched the show and sent the treatment to E! president Ted Harbert along with two top execs at E!.
The treatment states, "…what happens if Anna Nicole Smith and other celebrities turn the tables and capitalize off of the overzealous media? What if the next big supposed scandal is not a scandal at all? What if everything is staged, but the media (and the public) don't know it? Anna Nicole and other celebrity guests take aim at the media and push all the limits."
To add a slap in the face, Howard even spoke with E! just two months ago, on behalf of the estate of course, and pitched the show again. This time, with Larry Birkhead doing the opening prank, and later hosting the show. But he was turned down.
Anna Nicole's former bodyguard, Big Moe, sat down with Access Hollywood and had some in-ter-esting things to say about Larry "Big 'Mo" Birkhead.
Big Moe claims that Anna Nicole viewed Birkhead as a sperm donor only:
"Because of how Larry looked, she figured, oh my child would look great," Big Moe told Access Hollywood's Tony Potts. "Blonde hair, blue eyes, you know, 'Go great with me and my baby will come out beautiful.'"
"So basically, from what she told you and what you’re telling me is that Anna looked at Larry as a sperm donor to get a really beautiful child?" Tony asked.
"That's it," Big Moe said.
Big Moe also adds fuel to the gay rumors surrounding Birkhead–claims that Anna Nicole's baby daddy has vehemently denied. According to Big Moe, Anna told him that due to Birkhead's "lifestyle" there would be no strings attached:
"What's his lifestyle?" Tony asked.
"Well, she told me that, you know, he was a homosexual," Big Moe said. "She knew deep down that he didn't want to be with her."
Larry is gonna be livid.
Hey, he's been making lots of money from ET and The Insider.
