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Hatchet to Be Buried With Anna?

After shredding each other for the past four days, Howard K. Stern and Larry Birkhead simultaneously announced, without any seeming anger toward each other, that Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas.

The announcement came just a few minutes after Judge Larry Seidlin decided that Dannielynn's court-appointed guardian should mediate the dispute.

The two men, who had sneered and clawed at one another, both directly and through their lawyers during the days of the legal hearing, made the announcement with Anna's mom, Virgie Arthur. They would not address the question of funeral arrangements nor would they discuss the paternity battle.

Even Birkhead's flame-throwing lawyer, Debra Opri, appealed for calm -- and appeared with her combatant, Stern's lawyer, Krista Barth.

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286. I think Judge Siedlin is a very moral man with High integrity! I am dissapointed in the negative comments made about him. This judges true interrest in this case was for Danny Lynn. Now to hear that Virgie made a remark that the judge might want to be a movie starr is completley out of line! I felt this Judge truley wore his heart on his sleeve ! I just have to wonder why do people have to be so sarcastic?
It is only teaching our children how to continue to disrepect society. And this society is losing integrity fast enough. Shame on some of the sarcastic media and you know who you are!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 8:52PM on Feb 23rd 2007 by Sandra Buzas

287. That was wrong for larrys lawer to say he will be seeing HIS daughter at her funeral. Do like my sister in law did when my brother passed.Arrage with the funeral home to get a prive viewing time just you howard and daniellynn. Then take her home and go back with the rest of the general veiwing. God Bless you Howlard. Stay stron and take care of theat beauitful baby of yours.

Posted at 10:48PM on Feb 24th 2007 by ThisIsForHoward

288. I have been watching the whole thing on my computer and poor Lazrry, he is so innocent in this whole thing. He just wants to know. Anna like her Marlyn left so many unanswered wuestions. She needs to get back to her precious Bahamas and some one needs to give Larry his daughter or atleast RUN THE DAMMM test!!!
Howard?? what is there left to say about you. You got what you wanted over and over again, Anna died believeing that you were a good man, she would be rolling in grave!!
Grandma, your heart is broken and your daughter is gone, do not know what to say to you!!
WHO IS TELLING THE TRUTH???????

Posted at 4:41PM on Feb 23rd 2007 by sandy

289. **Cindy Sheehan or her supporters (fans) are using TMZ to falsely post links that are supposed to be associated with the stories TMZ is reporting; instead, it is about her opposition of the war. See the first comment to see what I'm referring to. Shame on you Cindy; you left your young son with your ex and his wife for them to raise, then show-up after your son's death, for all the glory. Where were you when he needed his Mother? What's that all about?

Posted at 7:19PM on Feb 23rd 2007 by Cissy

290. To commentor 94: You obviously didn't watch the interviews Anna did with ET. she insinuated that her Mother abused her; this may have been a big factor in her leaving home at a young age. In one of Anna's last interviews, she mentioned that she called her Mom to let her know Danny had died; her Mom wasn't home, so she left a message on her answering machine. Instead of her "loving", caring Mother calling her back, or better yet, getting on the next plane to be with her daughter (regardless of their long-time estrangement), like a Mother should do (I guess not all parents have that instinct, huh?), she went on Larry King's show the following evening to bad-mouth Howard, accusing him of supplying Anna with drugs. I guess you have to be a parent to know better, right? Having children doesn't make you a parent.

Posted at 7:30PM on Feb 23rd 2007 by Cissy

291. People have made comments about Howard looking as if he's on drugs, himself. Well, that could be. Let's see, what might factor that in. Could it be that the last five months have effected him just as much as it did to Anna Nicole. Did it cross anyone's mind that he loved Danny? There's a possibility that he's emotionally drained, not to mention sleep deprived, and that may be why he looks and speaks that way lately. Maybe he's on prescribed sedatives, if any drugs at all.

And yes, the baby does look like Larry, which if proved, would make him the birth parent; this is a given. Did anyone see the interview (one of several) on ET or the Insider where Dannilynn was being held by Howard? She started crying, and Howard started to gently rock her, calling her sweetheart, commenting that he knew she was still hungry because she was sucking on her hand. He then proceeded to grab a bottle and feed her. That to me shows common sense; this from a man, yet. Not to mention love, tenderness and caring. This man is the Father, no matter what the test shows. I'm not saying that Larry wouldn't be a good Father; he's tried everything to have DNA tests taken, as well as pleading to see the Baby. I feel for both men; this is a tough situation, all the way around. I hope that whoever receives custody will give her the love she deserves, and is told how much her Mother loved her.

Posted at 7:47PM on Feb 23rd 2007 by Cissy

292. I think Howard may be walking into a trap the police are going to be setting for him. I think there is cooperation between the US and Bohamian police. They are probably just waiting to get all their t's crossed and their i's dotted so they will have an airtight case. HKS was a nervous wreck on the stand. He kept drinking water until at times he was drinking invisible water as the cup was obviously empty. I was sure his next step was going to be eating the cup. Must have been "a mushroom trip" right Howie!! As an attorney Howard should have been the least nervous of all the witnesses.

Posted at 11:43PM on Feb 23rd 2007 by onlyintheUSA

293. Curious,,,after baby born was named "HANNAH" by Anna (anna is in the name) so was there an original birth certificate at that time...before the name change....and is Stern listed on the "Hannah" birth certificate? Hopefully, the whole truth will come out somewhere along the line in benefit of this child. Feel like Stern has "dotted his i's and crossed his t's" on this one....I thought O.J. worked the system......someone will fall into a legal loophole and "hope"fully it will NOT be Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern!!!!!

Posted at 4:03PM on Feb 24th 2007 by babylove

294. Wonder after Stern passes if his family will fight for buriel rights even if he wants to lay to rest by "his Anna"?

Posted at 4:02PM on Feb 24th 2007 by wherewillyougo

295. I am an IV Nurse... I have specialized in IV Therapy for 30 years....
Watch.... the Face Painting Video Again.... go to the section where Anna turns to listen to the dog and she brings here right arm up in the air... along the underside of the mid forarm there is a bruise that is elongated..... that area is exactly where the Basilic Vein is positioned. That bruise is from an IV Needle access a VEIN... Either the bodyguards wife who is a nurse MISSED the VEIN and nicked the vein and caused it to bruise or the site bleed into the tissue when the needle was removed.. Either way that is a IV site.... Period..
That is why Larry testified in court that when Anna came back from Myrtle Beach he stated that
'HER ARMS WERE CLEAR'
Those vials in the refrigerator if in fact they were actually hers were IV or IM route Medications only........!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now the Temp.... situation.. If the nurse was icing down her patient... Anna was possibly septic...
Where would the SEPTICEMIA come from...
1. IV routes infected.
or
2. Surgical Incision Infected... her recent C-Section incision????
The Medical Examiner indicated that there was recent infection...

Once SEPTICEMIA is present ..... the organs fail and there is only one direction your body is going.. and that is to the Morgue...

The Autopsy is going to reveal Septicemia.... cause of death..

Let's wait and see..

Posted at 4:46PM on Feb 24th 2007 by Peggy

296. Sterns: if you love that baby and want to keep her in your's
and your parents lives, you should play nice with Larry and give up
the baby's DNA immediately, before you all end up being exhiled from her life!!

Posted at 10:18PM on Feb 24th 2007 by From: Team for: Dannielynn Hope Birkhead

297. Anna was an extremely fucked up person in more ways than one (and apparently a quite liberally fucked person as well, which is actually one of the few things I find liberating about her). I have read in several places during the past week or so that Anna went "laughing all the way to the bank." Which is perhaps true, although one has a little trouble envisioning her doing much laughing, at least of the hearty variety, during the past few months. What one aches to hear about this rather wretched balloon-breasted woman is that, just once, she might have been located "thinking all the way to the bank" or, heaven help us, "reading all the way" or “meditating all the way.” Contrary to what is widely being said about her -- i.e., that she was stupid -- she clearly was not. Ignorant yes (if I may make the distinction), often delightfully so, and magnificently uneducated. And yet in her vehement non-conformity and refusal to accept any sort of quotidian normality or tedium for her life, I believe she was actually a very advanced creature in her way, indeed was a throwback to the roots of modern philosophy, as outlined by Rene Descartes, who believed as Anna clearly did that no wisdom or accepted path of behavior should go unquestioned, in other words that life should be lived in perpetual defiance of typical repressive social patterns and expectations. So she had something going here, and knew it, at least on an intuitive level. On a more vulgar level (and I must make the point to get where I’m going) people say she had beautiful tits. Which is nonsense. They were buffoon tits, spectacles, almost entirely lacking in grace and subtlety. And the weirder-looking they got over the years, the more aptly they signified the coarseness and inelegance that had obviously claimed a good part of her inner being. What she did have that no one ever mentions is extraordinarily beautiful hands -- long and lean and graceful. And in these I find far better evidence of her specialness than can be found in her breasts, which were distinguished only by their size. People with those long prehensile claws are invariably special -- it is the mark of mystery and often old souls. And Anna had it to go with her disarmingly lovely face (isn’t this what we truly most loved in her?). Even in the appalling clown video, you can’t help but be struck by the otherworldly quality of the pleading eyes and generous mouth and the shapely bone structure behind the paint. Apart from all this, she is said to have stubbornly masterminded her own story and fate (which seems obvious in the way she treated most of the male slugs around her). Given her level of control (at least in the days before she started to unravel), she obviously knew something of what she was getting in a guy like Stern – basically ass-licking sycophancy -- and thereby deserved what eventually became his perverse attentions and manipulations. And in this she might be said to have masterminded her way into an early grave. Anna would have been far better off to have had one or two strong confident men in her life, and needless to say some strong confident women, too, but of course that would have required taking some responsibility and extending herself outside of the self-obsessive drug-addled little playpen that she and her preferred boyfriends lived in, and where she could call all the shots. In closing, might I suggest that rather than burying her at all, which seems like such a waste of earning possibilities for Mr. Stern, everybody concerned should just build her a giant funeral pyre somewhere near the last place she had a decent orgasm (if indeed she ever had one), stoke it with all her old National Enquirer columns, left-over prescriptions, 36DD bras, etc., and film it all as the flames rise around her and those vestiges of her soul that are still intact ascend into the hereafter (surely her “remains” are little more than a nightmare at this point anyway). And then show us all the film, and we can sign off, and so can she. Throw Daniel on too. One thing seems certain, that neither of their restless souls is gonna be happy for very long in the sun-scorched clay of a lonely Bahamian cemetery.

Posted at 4:05PM on Feb 25th 2007 by Cala Wilkinson

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