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Americans love self-made men and women. And who was ever more literally self-made than Anna Nicole Smith? Described by acquaintances as a flat-chested teen, she shaped, nipped and tucked herself into a living hood ornament. She styled herself ŕ la Marilyn Monroe and then, after fighting drug problems and ballooning, whittled herself down as a spokeswoman for TrimSpa diet supplements. According to her mother, she even invented her childhood, mythologizing her middle-class upbringing into a hardscrabble one, like Jay Gatsby in reverse. Feral, brazen and vacant, Smith was not talented in most usual senses...
...busy filing paperwork to claim paternity of Anna Nicole Smith's child, then you clearly have time for this week's pop-culture quiz...
...DIED. Anna Nicole Smith, 39, former Playboy model, widow of an octogenarian tycoon, mother of a newborn, and tabloid celebrity; of unknown causes, after collapsing in her hotel room in Hollywood, Fla. (see page...
...rare that any fashion designer could look as comfortable as he did in his own designs. That’s likely because Bartlett seemed to be designing for himself: an independent, urban man looking for classics yet also wanting to differentiate himself.—Staff writer Anna L. Tong can be reached at tong@fas.harvard.edu...
...second period to erase a 2-0 deficit, to BC taking the lead in the third period only for Harvard to strike back 12 seconds later, to both teams battling through three brutal overtimes with each missed scoring opportunity extending their agony, to the Eagles’ Anna McDonald finally scoring the winning goal over 114 minutes after the opening faceoff, having practiced for only four days since being cleared to play following a serious groin injury. It was the longest game in NCAA women’s history, but it didn’t get boring for a second...