Anna Nicole Smith |
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| Playboy centerfold appearance | June 1992 |
| Birthplace | Mexia, Texas |
| Birthdate | November 28, 1967 |
| Measurements | 36" DD - 26" - 38" |
| Height | 5' 11" |
| Weight | 140 lbs |
| Preceded by | Cady Cantrell |
| Succeeded by | Angela Melini |
| Playmate of the Year (PMOY) for | 1993 |
| PMOY preceded by | Corinna Harney |
| PMOY succeeded by | Jenny McCarthy |
Anna Nicole Smith (born Vickie Lynn Hogan on November 28, 1967 in Mexia, Texas) is a model and actress.
Having to support a son, Daniel, from her first husband, Anna Nicole worked at a variety of odd-jobs. It was while working as a stripper that she met billionaire J. Howard Marshall, who frequently patronized the establishment. With Marshall lavishing money on her, Smith got breast implants and as “Vickie Smith” managed to land on the cover of the March, 1992 issue of Playboy magazine, wearing a lowcut evening gown. This appearance secured her a deal with Guess? jeans to follow supermodel Claudia Schiffer in its ad campaign. Smith then posed nude for Playboy as the June, 1992 centerfold. Tall, blonde, and fullfigured, Smith won comparisons to the voluptuous Marilyn Monroe and was chosen to be the 1993 Playmate of the Year. She finally settled on the name “Anna Nicole Smith” by the time of her PMOY pictorial.
Anna Nicole's Playmate of the Year issue, June, 1993Smith and the billionaire Marshall finally married on June 27, 1994; she was 26 at the time, he was nearly 90. By most accounts, Anna Nicole had other boyfriends and was generally indifferent to Marshall, with whom she never lived.
Within weeks after J. Howard's death on August 4, 1995 Anna Nicole squared off against his son, E. Pierce Marshall, for half of her late husband's $1.6 billion estate. Although J. Howard was, according to his employees, crazy about her, he did not include Anna Nicole in his trust and will, which he updated weeks after their marriage. Anna Nicole claimed J. Howard verbally promised her half of his estate if she married him. In September, 2000, a Los Angeles bankruptcy judge awarded Anna a staggering $449,754,134. Pierce appealed, and in July 2001, Houston judge Mike Wood vacated that award and ordered Anna Nicole to pay over $1 million in fees and expenses to Pierce's legal team. In March of 2002, she was awarded $88 million. In December 2004, a three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the March 2002 decision, saying that Anna Nicole is not one of J. Howard Marshall's heirs. [1] (http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11818750%255E2902,00.html)
During the course of the litigation, Smith's career stalled. She was relegated to appearing in low budget soft core porn films until 2002, when she was given her own reality TV series on the E! cable television network. The Anna Nicole Show focused on her personal and private life in the manner of other “reality” shows such as the recent hit The Osbournes. Critics blasted it, saying it was so bad it deserved to be pitied. The show's debut was a bomb, and ratings dropped with each successive week. However, it achieved a kind of camp or cult status as many fans found humor in Smith's absurd and arguably stupid antics. The show was finally cancelled in February 2004, due to “creative differences”, but has retained some life in reruns and on DVD.
In an interview on Late Night with Conan O'Brien she was asked what her “Playmate diet” consisted of. She replied, “fried chicken”. Her height is 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m). In October, 2003, she became a spokesperson for TrimSpa, which helped her to reportedly lose 30 lb (14 kg).
In November 2004, she was invited as a presenter to the American Music Awards show. However, she went on stage experiencing a personal problem of some sort (or pulling a publicity stunt). Tabloids speculate that she was under the influence of pills or another controlled substance. This led her to start making barely understandable comments about her body and TrimSpa among other subjects. Eventually, the cameras had to move away to prevent showing her behavior during the presentation while she was taken backstage. This incident would later become comedic material for the rest of the presenters to comment on and became part of the news the next day [2] (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/16/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main655962.shtml).
In March 2005, at the first Australian MTV Music Awards in Sydney's Luna Park, she spoofed Janet Jackson's 2004 wardrobe malfunction by pulling down her dress to reveal both breasts, each covered with the MTV logo.
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In March 2005, at the first Australian MTV Music Awards in Sydney's Luna Park, she spoofed Janet Jackson's 2004 wardrobe malfunction by pulling down her dress to reveal both breasts, each covered with the MTV logo. But digital movie photography has several advantages:. Eventually, the cameras had to move away to prevent showing her behavior during the presentation while she was taken backstage. This incident would later become comedic material for the rest of the presenters to comment on and became part of the news the next day [2] (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/11/16/earlyshow/leisure/celebspot/main655962.shtml). Despite the successful demonstration of the technology, movie studios are slow to move to this new model, in part because of the high price of the digital equipment. This led her to start making barely understandable comments about her body and TrimSpa among other subjects. The attendees said the movie had the clearest and sharpest presentation they had ever seen. Tabloids speculate that she was under the influence of pills or another controlled substance. For the presentation, Lucas used a special digital projection system. However, she went on stage experiencing a personal problem of some sort (or pulling a publicity stunt). He showed the result to a select audience of the Hollywood elite, before the movie's general release. In November 2004, she was invited as a presenter to the American Music Awards show. Lucas departed from this model by filming Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones almost completely digitally. In October, 2003, she became a spokesperson for TrimSpa, which helped her to reportedly lose 30 lb (14 kg). Though personal digital photography is now mainstream, most movie studios still use traditional cameras and film for movie production. Her height is 5 ft 11 in (1.80 m). Now Lucas is spearheading digital photography for movies. She replied, “fried chicken”. Though Lucas didn't invent THX, he is responsible for its development. In an interview on Late Night with Conan O'Brien she was asked what her “Playmate diet” consisted of. Lucas is also responsible for the modern sound systems found in many movie theaters. The show was finally cancelled in February 2004, due to “creative differences”, but has retained some life in reruns and on DVD. Lucas sold his early computer development unit to Steve Jobs in 1988, which was renamed Pixar. However, it achieved a kind of camp or cult status as many fans found humor in Smith's absurd and arguably stupid antics. Through ILM, Lucas spurred the further development of computer graphics, film laser scanners and the earliest use of 3D computer character animation in a film, Young Sherlock Holmes. The show's debut was a bomb, and ratings dropped with each successive week. In 1975 Lucas established Industrial Light and Magic (ILM) in Van Nuys, CA, which was responsible for the invention of the special computer assisted camera crane "Dykstraflex" that was used for most of the space fight sequences used in the Star Wars movies (technology which was later adopted by most other visual effects production units, such as those responsible for "Battlestar Galactica" and "Star Trek: The Next Generation"). Critics blasted it, saying it was so bad it deserved to be pitied. Besides his directorial and production work on movies, Lucas is the most significant contemporary contributor to modern movie technology. The Anna Nicole Show focused on her personal and private life in the manner of other “reality” shows such as the recent hit The Osbournes. On the June 5, 2005, Lucas was named 100th "Greatest American" by the Discovery Channel. She was relegated to appearing in low budget soft core porn films until 2002, when she was given her own reality TV series on the E! cable television network. [1] (http://www.afi.com/tvevents/laa/laa05.aspx). During the course of the litigation, Smith's career stalled. He received the award on June 9, 2005. [1] (http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,11818750%255E2902,00.html). The American Film Institute awarded Lucas its Lifetime Achievement Award for 2005. Howard Marshall's heirs. On October 3, 1994, Lucas started to write the three Star Wars prequels, and on November 1 that year, he left the day-to-day operations of his filmmaking business and started a sabbatical to finish the prequels. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the March 2002 decision, saying that Anna Nicole is not one of J. He wanted his friend, Steven Spielberg, to direct some of the later Star Wars movies, but since Spielberg was a member of the guild, he couldn't work on Lucas' films. In December 2004, a three-judge panel of the U.S. This made it hard for him to find a director for some of his later projects. In March of 2002, she was awarded $88 million. After paying the fine, he quit the guild. Pierce appealed, and in July 2001, Houston judge Mike Wood vacated that award and ordered Anna Nicole to pay over $1 million in fees and expenses to Pierce's legal team. Lucas was fined by the Directors Guild of America for refusing to have a standard title sequence in his Star Wars films. Howard verbally promised her half of his estate if she married him. In September, 2000, a Los Angeles bankruptcy judge awarded Anna a staggering $449,754,134. In 2005 Forbes.com estimated the lifetime revenue generated by the Star Wars franchise at nearly $20 billion. Anna Nicole claimed J. In 2004 Forbes Magazine estimated Lucas' personal wealth at $3 billion. Howard was, according to his employees, crazy about her, he did not include Anna Nicole in his trust and will, which he updated weeks after their marriage. This decision earned him hundreds of millions of dollars as he was able to directly profit from all the licensed games, toys and collectibles created for the franchise. Pierce Marshall, for half of her late husband's $1.6 billion estate. Although J. During the filming of Star Wars, Lucas waived his up front fee as director and negotiated to own the licensing rights—rights which the studio thought were nearly worthless. Howard's death on August 4, 1995 Anna Nicole squared off against his son, E. On a return on investment basis, Star Wars proved to be the most successful films of all time. Within weeks after J. Along with Spielberg, Lucas is credited with establishing the blockbuster approach to filmmaking. By most accounts, Anna Nicole had other boyfriends and was generally indifferent to Marshall, with whom she never lived. In fact, Lucas and Spielberg had been acquaintances for some time and eventually worked together on several films, notably the first Indiana Jones vehicle, Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1981. Smith and the billionaire Marshall finally married on June 27, 1994; she was 26 at the time, he was nearly 90. Star Wars is considered by some to be the first "high concept" film, although others feel the first was Steven Spielberg's Jaws, released two years prior. She finally settled on the name “Anna Nicole Smith” by the time of her PMOY pictorial. Lucasfilm Games, later renamed to LucasArts, is highly regarded in the gaming industry. Tall, blonde, and fullfigured, Smith won comparisons to the voluptuous Marilyn Monroe and was chosen to be the 1993 Playmate of the Year. Skywalker Sound and Industrial Light and Magic, the sound and visual effects subdivisions of Lucasfilm, respectively, have become among the most respected firms in their fields. Smith then posed nude for Playboy as the June, 1992 centerfold. American Zoetrope never really succeeded, but from the financial success of his films American Graffiti (1973) and Star Wars (1977), Lucas was able to set up his own studio, Lucasfilm, in Marin County in his native northern California. This appearance secured her a deal with Guess? jeans to follow supermodel Claudia Schiffer in its ad campaign. After graduating, he co-founded the studio American Zoetrope with Francis Ford Coppola, hoping to create a liberating environment for filmmakers to direct outside the perceived oppressive control of the Hollywood studio system. With Marshall lavishing money on her, Smith got breast implants and as “Vickie Smith” managed to land on the cover of the March, 1992 issue of Playboy magazine, wearing a lowcut evening gown. There he made a number of short films, including an early version of THX1138, later to become his first full-length feature film. Howard Marshall, who frequently patronized the establishment. During the 1960s, Lucas studied cinema in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California's School of Cinema-Television, one of the earliest universities to have a school devoted to film studies. It was while working as a stripper that she met billionaire J. For better or worse, that dream was abruptly ended in his early adulthood when he crashed his Fiat Bianchina in a car accident. Having to support a son, Daniel, from her first husband, Anna Nicole worked at a variety of odd-jobs. Lucas attended Downey High School and was interested in racecar driving; he dreamed of becoming a professional racecar driver. Anna Nicole Smith (born Vickie Lynn Hogan on November 28, 1967 in Mexia, Texas) is a model and actress. Lucas was born in Modesto, California, where his father, George Walton Lucas, Sr., ran a stationery store. Be Cool (2005) (Cameo). George Walton Lucas, Jr. (born May 14, 1944) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter famous for his epic Star Wars saga and the Indiana Jones trilogy. Miss Cast Away and the Island Girls (2004). Indiana Jones IV (2007) (Producer). Wasabi Tuna (2003). Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith (2005) (director, writer, executive producer). Skyscraper (1997). Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002) (director, co-writer, executive producer). To the Limit (1995). Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace (1999) (director, writer, executive producer). Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994). Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) (co-writer, executive producer). The Hudsucker Proxy (1994). Willow (1988) (writer, executive producer). Howard the Duck (1986) (executive producer). Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984) (co-writer, executive producer). Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983) (executive producer, co-writer). Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) (co-writer, executive producer). Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980) (executive producer, co-writer). Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope (1977) (director, writer). American Graffiti (1973) (director, writer). THX1138 (1970) (director, writer). Transferring digital movies to DVD is much cheaper since both forms are digital. Movies stored digitally are not susceptible to decay and degradation in quality. Delivery of movies to cinemas is much cheaper since the digital media is much smaller than traditional reels which can weigh hundreds of pounds. Digital editing is much easier and less expensive since the movie is already in digital form. |