Slash -- Yes, the Guitarist -- Is at Anna's Funeral

46. Vegie is the most evil mother I have ever heard about. All her and Daniel's father want is money. Anna is an emancempated women and should be left alone with the only person she had around her continously H.S.

Posted at 11:47AM on Mar 2nd 2007 by Marilyne

47. # 43, I agree, I think it is payback to her daughter. Which to me is just deplorable for a Mother. She is ONE BIG WACKJOB. She's the one that needs her meds! I hope someone smacks her fat face at the funeral, she doesn't deserve to be there!!!!

Posted at 11:34AM on Mar 2nd 2007 by PE

48. GO VIRGIE...................Put a stop to this...............maybe you couldn't stop you daughter from being around HKS in her life and stopping her from killing your grandson, but at least you can get as far away from him as you can now. I'm sure if Anna realized that she was going to lose her son and die herself, she would be re-thinking a lot of her decisions and would cheer you on.................don't let anyone stop you from saying your grandaughter..............get her away from Howard as fast as you can.

Posted at 11:33AM on Mar 2nd 2007 by PAM

49. Some of the people making comments on this page should be ashamed of themselves. Yes Anna did have a bizzar life to say the least, but what make you think you can pass judgement on her. You don't know what she went through, nor do I but she seemed like a broken. She had a huge heart and was never taught how to live like an adult. I think some of you need to realize that she Is a human and she deserves respect. Please give it too her it will probably be the only time in her life and death that she will get it.

Posted at 11:56AM on Mar 2nd 2007 by jennifer

50. So is Slash the only one showing up, wheres Don King ,Hulk Hogan hugh hefner bobby trendy , ect, where are all her so called baby daddys, ANS really didnt have true friends, now everybody keeps saying her mom sees $$ signs what the hell do you think the Bahamas see they dont give a f*** about a slut drug addict bitch, who led a destructive life. put her son on jeorpardy many times and was putting her daughter in jeporady while being pregant.

Posted at 12:03PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by jackdaniels

51. Well, even FOX NEWS is trashing ET's interviews with Howard & Anna! And Stern Pressures Larry TODAY to sign a deal!!

Howard K. Stern Plays Hardball With Larry Birkhead
Friday, March 02, 2007

By Roger Friedman

AP

Anna Nicole: Stern Pressures Larry to Sign Deal

Anna Nicole Smith's two baby daddies (I don't know what else to call them) continue to be in a tug-of-war this morning, even as their beloved cash cow is readied for burial.

Overnight, attorney Howard K. Stern — whose hold on the situation is starting to slip — has been strong-arming photographer Larry Birkhead to do a couple of things: keep Birkhead's legal reps out of Anna Nicole Smith's Bahamas funeral, sign a contract deal with "Entertainment Tonight" and acquiesce even further regarding the future of baby Danniellynn.

Stern, as I told you the other day, has already had one secret meeting with Birkhead in which he cut out the photographer's lawyers.

I'm told that Stern has kept up the pressure on Birkhead, actually presenting him with contracts, sources say, in which Birkhead would join Stern for more exclusive interviews on "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider."

"Howard wanted Larry to sign so that it looked like everyone was in agreement, and that it wasn't just Howard benefiting from these deals," my source said. "Larry said the baby's guardian should sign the papers for him and the baby, but he wouldn't. So then Larry wouldn't."

At the same time, Stern is trying to negotiate separately with Birkhead, away from his attorneys, to sign a deal by which Stern would continue to be in baby Danniellyn's life and oversee her finances.

Stern, my sources say, is working as quickly as he can to effect these agreements before he has to turn over the baby to Birkhead, her biological father.

Sources say that Birkhead's representatives are considering taking legal action against Stern's side to prevent further communication between the two sides as soon as today.

The problem, sources also say, is that Birkhead — a novice in these games — continues to be intimidated by Stern.

"Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider," both owned by CBS Paramount Television, have denied paying for interviews. But I'm told their method – it's semantics — is to "license" footage either directly from Stern or through a third party.

Recently, "ET" used Solana Productions of Southern California in such a deal. Neither Solana or anyone from CBS Paramount answered calls yesterday.

Anna Nicole: Dead, and For Sale

Today, Anna Nicole Smith — a ridiculous person who accomplished just about nothing in her life — will be buried in the Bahamas.

There are several wars taking place all over the world, not to mention famines; artists are hard at work, movies are opening, buildings are going up, diseases are being investigated. But hey: Anna Nicole is being buried, and "Entertainment Tonight" will be there for every cheesy second of it.

That's because "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider," two half-hour shows syndicated by CBS's Paramount TV, have paid a high price for this honor.

Real insiders (not the kind you have to pay for info) tell me that Paramount TV cut the deal with Howard K. Stern, Anna Nicole's lawyer and Svengali, right after her son Daniel died of a methadone overdose in her Bahamian hospital room last September.

Paramount TV has denied this, somewhat passively, so far. But my sources say it they paid Stern around $3 million initially, and that this was renegotiated right after Anna Nicole herself died on February 8th of this year.

Of course, we could believe that Stern — who in court told clueless Florida probate judge Larry Seidlin that he was living off his parents — just loves "ET." Anything's possible.

But the reality is that Anna Nicole's death has proven to be a ratings-sweep godsend.

Linda Bell Blue, the show's executive producer, previously helmed Paramount's ugly tabloid show, "Hard Copy." For years she's had to sit through Mary Hart's tedious, publicist-arranged interviews with low-level TV stars, just waiting for this moment: a huge celebrity death, in a sweeps month, and already contracted for!

As recently as last night, "ET" correspondent Mark Steines was reporting "from inside" Anna Nicole's Bahamas mansion — no mention of the fact that it didn't belong to her, and that the landlord is kicking everyone out.

Steines had "the inside scoop" about the B-list country singer who would serenade Anna Nicole into the next life, the color of her burial gown ("pink!") and what would be inside the coffin (with any luck, Anna Nicole).

Steines performs these interviews — as he has since last Nov. 1, when he had his first "exclusive" after Smith's son, Daniel, died — with a reasonably straight face.

He either knows he's skating on very thin ice and doesn't care, or doesn't get it and is happy to accept the money. In either case, he loses.

As far back as last November, the show's viewers were writing into "ET" forums on the Web asking how much the show had paid for the interviews, and begging them to stop.

On the topix.net forum for the show, a woman named Lana from Andrews, Texas, wrote on Nov. 6: "ET needs to rename their show The Anna Nichole (sic) Show. Every night it is about her. I wonder if there are any viewers that care to hear about her."

On Nov. 6, Dianne from Madison, Wis., wrote: "I think they might have finally driven me away from the show with all this Anna Nicole crap. How much is she paying them?"

The viewers were smarter than the show thought. That didn't stop Blue, Steines and friends.

Nancy from Richardson, Texas, posted this before Smith died on Feb. 8: "Get over her ... I am tired of all of the interviews they are doing with her. She sounds like she is either drunk or high. I have no respect for her and am getting tired of seeing her and all the interviews. She can't even talk without sounding like she is a drunken slut!"

Patti Horton from Altoona, Pa., posted this on Feb. 9: "I can't believe someone from E[T] hasn't questioned Anna Nicole about her drug use. Every night that she is being interviewed it is quite obvious that she is somewhere in la la land. I think they should of (sic) been more persistent in following that path than her new house. Some of the interviews it was all she coud (sic) do to talk. Was this a safe environment for this baby???"

Steines, of course, has a blog on the "ET" Web site. It's a hoot.

On Feb. 9, the day after Smith died, he posted: "When the news broke of Anna's death ... I immediately boarded a plane to Florida along with Khristine Eroshevich, Anna's close confidant…"

Steines acts like Eroshevich is just a pal, maybe another Playboy model. In fact, she was the model's psychiatrist, and someone who has yet to be heard from.

Eroshevich's few comments — including that she oversaw an ice bath for a dying Smith — have been limited to ... Steines, who despite his "inside" sources has not been able to secure Eroshevich for a real interview about these people and their drug use.

I doubt that will happen until Stern's usefulness has passed and his agreements with "ET" have expired.

Steines must feel a long way away from the two Emmys he received years ago in local news at KCAL-TV in Los Angeles.

Posted at 12:24PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by Briggs

52. HEY TMZ maybe you shoud print all the comments made about ans and send them to her devil(mom) and maybe then she will get a clue and crawl back to the gutter she came from
R.I.P anna and danial!!!good luck Larry and dannielynn

Posted at 12:59PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by jenn

53. Stern is a "ENABLER"

Howard K. Stern Plays Hardball With Larry Birkhead Friday, March 02, 2007
By Roger Friedman
Anna Nicole Smith's two baby daddies (I don't know what else to call them) continue to be in a tug-of-war this morning, even as their beloved cash cow is readied for burial.
Overnight, attorney Howard K. Stern — whose hold on the situation is starting to slip — has been strong-arming photographer Larry Birkhead to do a couple of things: keep Birkhead's legal reps out of Anna Nicole Smith's Bahamas funeral, sign a contract deal with "Entertainment Tonight" and acquiesce even further regarding the future of baby Danniellynn.
Stern, as I told you the other day, has already had one secret meeting with Birkhead in which he cut out the photographer's lawyers.
I'm told that Stern has kept up the pressure on Birkhead, actually presenting him with contracts, sources say, in which Birkhead would join Stern for more exclusive interviews on "Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider."
"Howard wanted Larry to sign so that it looked like everyone was in agreement, and that it wasn't just Howard benefiting from these deals," my source said. "Larry said the baby's guardian should sign the papers for him and the baby, but he wouldn't. So then Larry wouldn't."
At the same time, Stern is trying to negotiate separately with Birkhead, away from his attorneys, to sign a deal by which Stern would continue to be in baby Danniellyn's life and oversee her finances.
Stern, my sources say, is working as quickly as he can to effect these agreements before he has to turn over the baby to Birkhead, her biological father.
Sources say that Birkhead's representatives are considering taking legal action against Stern's side to prevent further communication between the two sides as soon as today.
The problem, sources also say, is that Birkhead — a novice in these games — continues to be intimidated by Stern.
"Entertainment Tonight" and "The Insider," both owned by CBS Paramount Television, have denied paying for interviews. But I'm told their method – it's semantics — is to "license" footage either directly from Stern or through a third party.
Recently, "ET" used Solana Productions of Southern California in such a deal. Neither Solana or anyone from CBS Paramount answered calls yesterday.

Posted at 3:08PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by Outspoken

54. anna was a beautiful woman and she obviously had many friends.slash was one of them, i suppose.i couldn't imagine that his wife looked like that(she seems quite strong)

Posted at 4:15PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by blackat

55. One can only hope that Howard can join Anna in her new digs..........soon!

Posted at 4:49PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by Moonlighter

56. cue Slash's solo from "Knockin on Heaven's Door"

sorry. That was highly inappropriate.

_"Live and Let Die" maybe..

"You're Crazy" ?

Posted at 8:35AM on Mar 3rd 2007 by someone

57. All of you people are sick and need to get a life!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How dare you judge this poor girl. She had more sense in her little finger than any of you do period. None of your funerals will be televised.She was a savy business woman who loved her children and wanted secure futures for them.You all sicken me.

Posted at 8:15PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by Tatess

58.
Who knows who invited Slash and all the others. Stern, Birkhead, and Arthur were each allowed to invite 100 guests. Listen to the video below.

Posted at 8:26PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by whatever

59. Goodbye Anna Rest In Peace...although none of us knew you..you were always presented as a sweet soft spoken women and most of all you loved your Children..Drugs or Not you always had there best interest at heart! Goodbye sweet angel and God be with you and Daniel and look upon Danielynn...

Posted at 11:15PM on Mar 2nd 2007 by lyiea

60. And he couldn't button his shirt? What a disrespectful scuzz.

Posted at 3:24PM on Mar 3rd 2007 by jay rodriguez