February 27, 2007
OBLIGATORY ONE-TIME-ONLY A.N.S. POST
[sigh] I was really hoping I could side step this altogether, but I will say one thing about the Anna Nicole Smith fiasco. If you're not familiar with the situation, here's a quick recap: weeks after losing her son to an overdose and days after giving birth to a daughter, drugged-out blonde bombshell and former Playmate dies of a likely OD in her hotel room. Said woman was embroiled in a legal battle with the family of a deceased oil tycoon she married when he was a wheelchair-bound nonagenarian. As the infant daughter is the heir to any multi-million dollar legal resolution, men are coming out of the woodwork to claim paternity. And weeks after her death, her body remains decomposing in a Florida morgue as multiple parties argue over where she should be buried. Got all that?
This morning, MSNBC aired an interview it conducted with one of the men who allegedly slept with Anna Nicole Smith and is now claiming paternity to her daughter Danielynn. Larry Birkhead was openly emotional as he described how in love he was with Anna Nicole Smith and gave his account of seeing her for the last time in a Florida morgue:
Birkhead became the most emotional when he described saying his final goodbye while viewing Smith's body in a Florida morgue last week.
“There was something she made me say every night before she went to sleep,” Birkhead said, tears spilling down his cheeks. “I said, ‘Good night my sweet Anna baby.’ That's what she wanted me to say to her every night before she went to sleep.”
That's pretty sweet. Enough so that it rang a bell; more like a gong. In the 1996 movie Beautiful Girls, a relatively small film directed by Ted Demme that did around $20mn in business, there is a scene where Tommy (Matt Dillon) is asking about Andera's (Uma Thurman) relationship with her boyfriend back in Chicago. She assures him that it is very good and says:
Andera: You know there are fours words I need to hear before I go to sleep. Four little words. "Good night sweet girl." That's all it takes. I'm easy, I know, but a guy who can muster up those four words is a guy I want to stay with.
People who start lifting quotes from movies (or closely paraphrasing them) without attribution incline me to believe that they are total frauds. It might not seem like a big deal, but out of the whole interview, that is the quote that MSNBC pulled for the headline: "Good night, my sweet Anna baby".
Tagged:Posted by Lexiphane at February 27, 2007 4:19 AM
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