She's lying on her back, screaming in mortal agony as hands dig deep into her abdomen and tear the wriggling, blood slicked creature from her body. "Alien 5"? The sickest horror movie ever made? Nope — it's just the home video from Anna Nicole Smith's Bahamian C-section, which she and her ersatz-husband Howard K. Stern proudly shared with Anna's adoring public on a href="http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/entertainment-tonight/201159Entertainment Tonight. The tape was made during the September 7 birth of Anna and Howard's (or so he says) baby daughter, Dannielynn Hope, just three days before the death of Anna's 20-year-old son, Daniel. I was lucky enough to catch the event (the birth, not the death) in rerun first thing this morning before I even had time to down my breakfast, which is the only thing that saved me from throwing it back up. In the segment, Anna and Stern sit down with ET's Mark Steine, who's already looking a little green around the gills. Anna tells us how the doc...
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Oct 27, 2006 07:16 PM ET
- by Ken Fox
I haven't seen Sofia Coppola's spun-candy take on the life of Marie Antoinette yet, but I've got to laugh at the way Columbia Pictures has decided to market the film. At the end of the latest promotional trailer, in which the teen queen (played by Kirsten Dunst) is seen flitting about lavishily appointed rooms of Versailles as Gang of Four's "Natural's Not in It" blasts on the soundtrack, then traveling in he royal coach through the misty, early morning countryside to the melancholy strains of New Order's "Ceremony," these words appear: "Based on a True Story." I'm not exactly sure what to make of this. I know Coppola has been taken to task for her apparent political indifference and the historical inaccuracy of a film that purports to tell the story of an important real-life figure whose death marked one the most momentous occaisions in the history of Western Europe — the French Revolution. Since getting booed at Cannes — those French tend to take their own history very s...
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