![]() It’s easy to get caught up in the salacious details of her life, and the film is not immune to this temptation. After she died in 2007, the case carried on, but her estate has never been awarded anything. His death in 1995 resulted in a long and protracted inheritance case that eventually led to the Supreme Court. In phone audio and home videos shown in the film, they do seem to share genuine affection and care for each other. The subjects in the film, including her former lawyer, maintain that she and Marshall truly loved each other. Howard Marshall, she undoubtedly saw her ticket out of rural Texas. (Anderson, in contrast, was discovered on a jumbotron.) But Smith was much more calculating in her ambitions, telling friends at the strip club that she was going to be a famous model. ![]() Both were Playboy centerfolds, first appearing in the magazine just a few years apart. Though her story is similar in some ways to Anderson’s, it’s complicated by drug addiction and a relentless desire for fame. Smith, unfortunately, is not alive to speak for herself. “Pamela, a Love Story” ©Netflix/Courtesy Everett Collection While that can pose some challenges for a documentary’s journalistic credentials, in the case of “Pamela” and filmmaker Ryan White, it led to a more respectful and insightful film. As Anderson is still living, “Pamela” is fully authorized and made with her participation. Released a few months apart on Netflix, “Pamela, a Love Story” and “Anna Nicole Smith: You Don’t Know Me” take two approaches as different as their subtitles. While the 2022 Marilyn Monroe biopic “Blonde” leaned too heavily (and voyeuristically) into the victim narrative, two Netflix documentaries have tried to salvage her spiritual heiresses from the wreckage of a cruel and misogynistic media. A slew of recent film and television projects have revisited the archetypical blonde bombshell, a revered figure who with one wrong move can fall into the less respected category of the blonde bimbo. Along with this growing awareness comes a retroactive reframing of the misogynistic narratives around certain women - particularly women who embraced and cashed in on their sex appeal. 'It Wasn't Just a Case of Doing Cool Sh*t': Why 'The Mother' Fight Scenes SmartĪs a secondary consequence of MeToo, there has been a major shift in the way we speak, write, and think about women’s bodies, looks, and sexuality. And a victim’s sexual history is no longer fair game - certainly not since Stormy Daniels may be the key to a potential Trump felony conviction. Jean Carroll felt perfectly comfortable saying she once thought Trump was handsome. ![]() In interviews surrounding her successful sexual abuse lawsuit against Donald Trump, the writer E. Gone are the days when a media outlet can report what a victim was wearing or if they were drinking. Six years after MeToo dragged all the musty old skeletons out of every industry’s closet, we seem to have finally arrived at the end of respectability politics for women. Now that Britney is free and Pamela Anderson did Broadway, it’s time for Anna Nicole Smith’s day in court - and not the bankruptcy kind. ![]()
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