Anna Nicole Smith gets the Lifetime movie you did not know she needed

Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:00:00 +0000

“Anna Nicole,” a biopic of the massive-chested, Playboy-modeling, Guess-jeans-selling, Marilyn Monroe-looking, short-lived, drug-addled tabloid fixture, premieres Sunday night on Lifetime. The movie is directed by Mary Harron, who has previously made such films as “American Psycho,” “I Shot Andy Warhol” and “The Notorious Life of Bettie Page,” an unexpectedly polished résumé for someone slumming it in Lifetime movie land. Disappointingly, but perhaps not surprisingly, the lowbrow juju of the Lifetime movie — one of the strongest forces in all of television – triumphs over whatever highbrow aspirations Harron had for the project, if, in fact, she had any. “Anna Nicole” has an extraordinarily hazy point of view, tonally sympathetic to Smith but unwilling to explore any of the details, sloppy but particularizing, that might mitigate and humanize her increasingly terrible behavior. If Anna Nicole Smith was in some way emblematic of our celebrity moment— and she was, a decade before Paris Hilton, famous for being some version of herself — “Anna Nicole” does not make that case: She seems as much an unfortunate joke as ever.

Lifetime releases trailer for Anna Nicole Smith biopic

Tue, 04 Jun 2013 20:00:00 +0000

Lifetime has released the trailer for its Anna Nicole Smith biopic, "The Anna Nicole Story," which charts the rise and subsequent crash of the late Playboy playmate, who died in 2007 after a long battle with drug addiction.

Though Lifetime isn't known to be particularly skillful with its original programming, there's some hope that the biopic may at least shed some light on the tumultuous, seemingly made-for-TV life of the star.

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Anna Nicole Smith gets the Lifetime movie you did not know she needed

Lifetime releases trailer for Anna Nicole Smith biopic