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Post by abbey1227 on May 17, 2023 3:01:33 GMT
Her
‘Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me’ Takes a Maddening Turn in Its Final Minutes
The new Netflix documentary is shocking and, at times, stomach-curdling, yet only serves as proof we still don't know the pop culture icon at all.
By Audra Heinrichs
The year is 1993 and Anna Nicole Smith, a small town girl turned sudden superstar thanks to Playboy and Guess co-founder Paul Marciano, is on the phone. Her platinum hair is coiled into neat rows of curlers, lips lined in petal pink, and Texan lilt still unmistakable.
“There’s two major movies that want me at once and they’re both shooting at the same time,” she explains to the person on the other end, lazily doodling hearts and her son’s name on a yellow legal pad. One of the films in question is Chuck Russell’s The Mask. “It’s got Jim Carrey in it...that funny guy,” she says. “I love the script, but the thing is, they offered me...I have a lead role, the lead girl role...this is embarrassing,” she continues. “They offered me $50,000.”
“Business,” Smith sighs, placing the phone back in its cradle. She’s dismayed but resigned. The role will go to Cameron Diaz and land her on the A-list as one of Hollywood’s go-to leading ladies. Smith, however, will book only bit parts as “blonde woman in club,” or, worse yet, crude caricatures of herself. As it’s been revealed time and again, she was quite adept at embodying the latter.
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me, premiering May 16 on Netflix, attempts to discern where Anna Nicole Smith ends and Vickie Lynn Hogan (her birth name) begins. However, if one was hoping for a definitive answer, they won’t get it. The two-hour documentary, directed by Ursula Macfarlane (Untouchable, The Lost Sons), traces the tragic trajectory of the model, actress, and, for better or worse, tabloid magnet with the aid of archival footage, private photographs, and the sometimes quite stunning candor of family and friends. Smith’s story is told with empathy—that is, until its final moments, when the documentary abruptly introduces contradictions about the woman whose likeness was once on the cover of every gossip rag in the grocery store checkout line. Frustrating as that is, I get it. There’s a certain allure to not knowing Anna Nicole Smith.
I'm only about an hour in........ ugh
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Post by kiwi on May 17, 2023 3:07:16 GMT
Wasn't planning on watching.
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Post by WarrenPeace on May 17, 2023 3:09:02 GMT
I pretty much just know her from the 3rd Naked Gun movie where she was pretty good and funny in it.
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Post by WarrenPeace on May 17, 2023 3:10:06 GMT
Wasn't planning on watching. This was keeping me up nights. Now I can finally get a good night's sleep. Thanx. |
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Post by pathfinder on May 17, 2023 3:27:30 GMT
Her
‘Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me’ Takes a Maddening Turn in Its Final Minutes
The new Netflix documentary is shocking and, at times, stomach-curdling, yet only serves as proof we still don't know the pop culture icon at all.
By Audra Heinrichs
The year is 1993 and Anna Nicole Smith, a small town girl turned sudden superstar thanks to Playboy and Guess co-founder Paul Marciano, is on the phone. Her platinum hair is coiled into neat rows of curlers, lips lined in petal pink, and Texan lilt still unmistakable.
“There’s two major movies that want me at once and they’re both shooting at the same time,” she explains to the person on the other end, lazily doodling hearts and her son’s name on a yellow legal pad. One of the films in question is Chuck Russell’s The Mask. “It’s got Jim Carrey in it...that funny guy,” she says. “I love the script, but the thing is, they offered me...I have a lead role, the lead girl role...this is embarrassing,” she continues. “They offered me $50,000.”
“Business,” Smith sighs, placing the phone back in its cradle. She’s dismayed but resigned. The role will go to Cameron Diaz and land her on the A-list as one of Hollywood’s go-to leading ladies. Smith, however, will book only bit parts as “blonde woman in club,” or, worse yet, crude caricatures of herself. As it’s been revealed time and again, she was quite adept at embodying the latter.
Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me, premiering May 16 on Netflix, attempts to discern where Anna Nicole Smith ends and Vickie Lynn Hogan (her birth name) begins. However, if one was hoping for a definitive answer, they won’t get it. The two-hour documentary, directed by Ursula Macfarlane (Untouchable, The Lost Sons), traces the tragic trajectory of the model, actress, and, for better or worse, tabloid magnet with the aid of archival footage, private photographs, and the sometimes quite stunning candor of family and friends. Smith’s story is told with empathy—that is, until its final moments, when the documentary abruptly introduces contradictions about the woman whose likeness was once on the cover of every gossip rag in the grocery store checkout line. Frustrating as that is, I get it. There’s a certain allure to not knowing Anna Nicole Smith.
I'm only about an hour in........ ugh
I know that she was a shark that wore human skin. |
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Post by Harry Skywalker on May 17, 2023 3:30:51 GMT
Her entire situation with her little kid dying so young and her life getting destroyed afterwards...
It was so sad, so shocking... It's very hard to not feel horrible.
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Post by abbey1227 on May 17, 2023 3:48:18 GMT
Wasn't planning on watching.
I will NEVER understand the appeal she had
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Post by kiwi on May 17, 2023 3:50:39 GMT
Wasn't planning on watching.
I will NEVER understand the appeal she had
I wasn't very aware of her until shortly before she died. It's a surprise to learn that she was up for the role in "The Mask." I remember reading - a long time ago - that Cameron Diaz was being considered for the role for a long time and she was getting impatient that she had to wait so long for an actual offer. |
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Post by abbey1227 on May 17, 2023 3:56:29 GMT
I will NEVER understand the appeal she had
I wasn't very aware of her until shortly before she died. It's a surprise to learn that she was up for the role in "The Mask." I remember reading - a long time ago - that Cameron Diaz was being considered for the role for a long time and she was getting impatient that she had to wait so long for an actual offer.
I remember looking up the Cast a few years later and thinking THAT was Cameron? She was so voluptuous. ![[shrug]](http://storage.proboards.com/6870873/images/GNdzQKpfkkHBBwUPdCiE.gif) The magic they can pull off with make-up and clothing sometimes.
Clearly Diaz was the better choice for an actual acting role
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Post by kiwi on May 17, 2023 3:58:15 GMT
I wasn't very aware of her until shortly before she died. It's a surprise to learn that she was up for the role in "The Mask." I remember reading - a long time ago - that Cameron Diaz was being considered for the role for a long time and she was getting impatient that she had to wait so long for an actual offer.
I remember looking up the Cast a few years later and thinking THAT was Cameron? She was so voluptuous. The magic they can pull off with make-up and clothing sometimes.
Clearly Diaz was the better choice for an actual acting role
I thought Cameron was a good fit for the part. I don't know that I've ever seen Anna Nicole Smith act outside of a couple commercials. |
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Post by abbey1227 on May 17, 2023 4:02:44 GMT
I remember looking up the Cast a few years later and thinking THAT was Cameron? She was so voluptuous. The magic they can pull off with make-up and clothing sometimes.
Clearly Diaz was the better choice for an actual acting role
I thought Cameron was a good fit for the part. I don't know that I've ever seen Anna Nicole Smith act outside of a couple commercials.
I've seen and enjoyed at least a dozen titles she's been in. There's Something About Mary will always be a keeper.
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Post by kiwi on May 17, 2023 4:06:59 GMT
I thought Cameron was a good fit for the part. I don't know that I've ever seen Anna Nicole Smith act outside of a couple commercials.
I've seen and enjoyed at least a dozen titles she's been in. There's Something About Mary will always be a keeper.
She was great in that. She also showed acting chops in "Things You Can Tell by Just Looking at Her." I think a lot of people wrote her off as just a pretty face, but she can act. Most of her roles, though, weren't the type that would get her nominated for awards, but "Things" was a serious role and she showed depth and nuance. I think she might have gotten a nomination for some award for "Streets of New York". |
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Post by abbey1227 on May 17, 2023 4:11:44 GMT
I've seen and enjoyed at least a dozen titles she's been in. There's Something About Mary will always be a keeper.
She was great in that. She also showed acting chops in "Things You Can Tell by Just Looking at Her." I think a lot of people wrote her off as just a pretty face, but she can act. Most of her roles, though, weren't the type that would get her nominated for awards, but "Things" was a serious role and she showed depth and nuance. I think she might have gotten a nomination for some award for "Streets of New York".
I liked The Box, Bad Teacher and Knight and Day, as well.
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Post by kiwi on May 17, 2023 4:20:49 GMT
She was great in that. She also showed acting chops in "Things You Can Tell by Just Looking at Her." I think a lot of people wrote her off as just a pretty face, but she can act. Most of her roles, though, weren't the type that would get her nominated for awards, but "Things" was a serious role and she showed depth and nuance. I think she might have gotten a nomination for some award for "Streets of New York".
I liked The Box, Bad Teacher and Knight and Day, as well.
I've seen The Box (she did a good accent) but not the other two. |
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Post by abbey1227 on May 17, 2023 4:26:30 GMT
I liked The Box, Bad Teacher and Knight and Day, as well.
I've seen The Box (she did a good accent) but not the other two.
Bad was a sorta raunchy school comedy..........and Knight was with Tom Cruise and had some very funny action scenes, as you can guess.
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