Celebrity News - Anna Nicole Smith, A Passing

Anna Nicole Smith died yesterday. The news surrounding the passing of the phenom filled the airwaves and the newpapers. The internet was abuzz with one report after another.

This morning, on NPR's Morning Edition, one of the reporters explored the reasons why her life has captured our attention for as long as it has. The reporter observed that she could not act, nor sing, nor write. Mostly she was just blonde and reminded us a lot of Marilyn Monroe. She was beautiful and easy on the eye. High school drop-out, stripper, wife to a billionaire, would-be performer, star of a television reality show, the center of a seemingly unending legal melodrama... her antics provided us with an unending stream of entertainment and we kept coming back for more of the same.

Why was that so? I can't really say. Maybe, as the reporter obersved, just because she was famous. And in America, one can be famous for just being famous.