Word: smalltown
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...outside the Hollywood, Fla., hospital where her body lay, one cable network correspondent observed there were more cameras present than he had seen at Yassir Arafat's funeral. But Anna Nicole Smith, 39, possessed a different kind of claim to fame and infamy. She went from a flat-chested, smalltown girl who worked at Wal-Mart and Jim's Krispy Fried Chicken in Texas to become a mega-celebrity of the 21st century sort, all name, little resume...
...thereby becoming the heavy, "Officer Obie," in Guthrie's talking blues epic, Alice's Restaurant, and in the 1969 hit film in which each played himself; from his position as chief after 34 years on the force because, he said, of his frustration with the courts and smalltown politics; in Stockbridge. Obie and Guthrie, a resident of nearby Washington, Mass., became friends after the clash over trash...