"What Not to Wear" is not the kind of reality show I would normally watch.

It's a "how-to" reality show, to use the Television Without Pity categories . The reality shows I enjoy are nearly all in the ...

Exiting through the door marked 2007.

The NYT Magazine has its annual "Lives They Lived" issue , with short essays on a wide range of individuals who died in the past y...

On the radio.

I'm on "Week In Review" on Wisconsin Public Radio this morning. If you go here , you can find the button at the top left to st...

"Clowns in dreadlocks escorting the casket draped in rhinestone-studded satin."

Losers in gaudy, ragamuffin clothes, camera hogs and hangers-on. Poor Anna Nicole, a trashy life, and a sleazy death, and in the end a horri...

"Every Case Gets the Judge That It Deserves."

David Lat says that about the Anna Nicole Smith case. Wouldn't it be weird if that were a general principle. ADDED: Judge Larry Seidlin...

The crying, melodramatic judge in the Anna Nicole case.

I find him quite bizarre. Too much self-expression!

It's me and Jim Pinkerton on Bloggingheads.TV!

Enough with the Eric Alterman on Bloggingheads. My diavlog is up now. I'm gabbing with the estimable Jim Pinkerton. Topics (with times)...

"Anna Nicole Smith embodied America... its overabundance; its exploitability, and its propensity to exploit."

Tunku Varadarajan writes: And to many foreigners--particularly foreign men--she embodied America in a literal way, too: in a brassy blondene...

Too sad to watch?

We talk about Anna Nicole at the beginning of today's radio show -- listen here -- and I say I watched her reality show . I recommend i...

"With Anna Nicole, she was pathetic but at the same time you thought, 'Gosh, if I could just scoop you up and fix things, it would be OK...."

"You wouldn't want to scoop up Paris Hilton.'" Ah, yes. The classic two types of hyper-sexualized women -- the kind you t...

"Just a moment's pleasure."

UPDATE: YouTube has deleted this video, which was Bryan Ferry singing the song "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" (The song was wr...

Anna.

R.I.P. ADDED: I was just checking my archives to see if I'd ever written about Anna Nicole Smith. I'm sure I wrote about her Supreme...

The Anna Nicole Smith case.

One of the perils of lawprof blogging is that when the Supreme Court issues a decision in your field, posting about it seems compulsory. And...

The argument in the Anna Nicole Smith case.

Dahlia Lithwick tells us about the oral argument in the Anna Nicole Smith case. The legal issue in the case is awfully boring, and Smith, f...

Anna Nicole Smith goes to the Supreme Court.

First, the great picture: Now, for the substance of the WaPo's report : The justices are dealing with a technical question: When may fed...

Podcast time!

Time for the big podcast! Podcast #7 , full of talk about bras and Right Wing Bob Dylan... and all my trials as I am dogged by lefty blogger...

Anna Nicole Smith takes her case to the Supreme Court.

And they grant cert! I wonder if she will benefit -- as she tries to get to the fortune her very elderly husband left -- from the having he...