Addicted To Fame (2012)

ADDICTED TO FAME  (2012)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: David Giancola
If Anna Nicole Smith had never lived, the tabloids could've created her. And in fact, the tabloids did. A statuesque blonde and Playboy model, Smith was the ultimate media-made celebrity, more famous for being famous than for anything she ever accomplished. This morbidly fascinating documentary shows Smith behind the scenes, working (if that's the word) on her last movie, an idiotic sci-fi comedy called "Illegal Aliens". Whether addled by drugs or addled without them, Smith was clearly detached from reality. She apparently couldn't read and emphatically couldn't act, and according to David Giancola, who made both the documentary and "Illegal Aliens", dealing with her while shooting the picture was like working with a two-year-old. She was a body without a brain, infantile and self-indulgent, catered to and exploited and ridiculed, a train wreck waiting to happen, which it did, in February 2007, when Smith died from an overdose at 39. The tabloids had a field day with that. Of course.