The second paragraph said the test was going through anyway.

Neither do I. I thought she was good for a laugh now and then, but hardly a world leader.

INteresting. I had not heard the rummors. But I suspect you are right about her step kids not letting go of the money.

I stand corrected.   

That is probably the true reason for the fight, and that is very sad for the child.

That really is the sad tragedy of this who mess.

Lots of theories ran through my head, and as I sat here and typed them all out I realized that being a controversial celebrity doesn't make her any less of a person and I felt bad talking ill of the dead. So I will keep those to myself.

I do feel bad for the baby, though. She has a life full of unanswered questions ahead of her.

yeah I know. I just thought I'd toss in a nice absurd little conspiracy theory. Faking her death wouldn't actually accomplish anything, I was just being facetious.

It's sad. You never know maybe she would have been able to get it together and turn her life around.

I have to agree that this shouldn't be headline news though. It's just the 24 hour news cycle is a monster that has to be fed. I'm sure the diaper wearing astronaut is glad it took some of the spotlight off her.

Sad to say, she might actually better off without them as role models. Hopefully someone who isn't on drugs will get custody.

I am going to have to nickname you Pollyanna. You find the good in all things.

Like Monroe, she died young but she never could have been a Marilyn. They had things in common but MM became an icon. Sadly, Ms Smith won't. How she could have married that "coffin on wheels" eludes me.

How she could have married that "coffin on wheels" eludes me.

It was probably money.  But if she made him happy, I see no problems with it.  It was his to do with as he saw fit, not his children's.

well, in the 50's, we barely had tv (black and white, broadcast only) and a much smaller percentage of households even owned 1. there were no 16 theater cineplexes and so forth...today, (and it was true in the early 90's when she made her mark) there are soooo many more choices in entertainment. anna could never expect to have the "kind" of stardom that any star of the 50's had.

how a star was viewed, promoted, exploited and everything else was just soooo different back then.

i think anna made her mark, after all, she probably is getting more coverage on her death than marylin got at any point in her career.

Well, she has been the photo spot on CNN and Fox for 2 days now, I would say that was coverage. The latest is that Zsa Zsa Gabor's husband is saying he is the father of the baby! That woman got around.