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Anna Nicole Smith in posthumous role at Cannes
(Reuters)
Updated: 2007-05-19 08:24
Model Anna Nicole Smith is pictured at a Los Angeles party in this May 9,
2002 file photo. Smith, whose death grabbed world headlines this year,
makes a posthumous appearance at Cannes in a science fiction comedy
straight from the B movie tradition. [Reuters]
CANNES, France - Former Playboy model Anna Nicole Smith, whose death
grabbed world headlines this year, makes a posthumous appearance at
Cannes in a science fiction comedy straight from the B movie tradition.
"Illegal Aliens" casts the silicone blonde as one of a "Charlie's
Angel"-style trio formed "when three aliens morph into super-hot babes
and arrive to protect the earth from the intergalactic forces of evil."
The film, which is being shown by producers in special market screenings
away from the main festival, is unlikely ever to win prizes like the
Palme d'Or awarded for top film in the Cannes competition.
But it is in keeping with a tumultuous career that took Smith from
small-town Texas via a strip club to marriage at 26 with an 89-year-old
oil billionaire, Playboy magazine and endless tabloid television
appearances.
The tone is set from the outset, when a cartoon spaceship shoots by with
the inscription "My other ride is Uranus" on the back and the film is
light years away from the highbrow fare on show further along the
Croisette.
Whether or not the producers can be accused of cashing in on her untimely
death, they certainly make no attempt to minimize her role and at one
point the three heroines recline on a sofa, watching the real Anna Nicole
Smith on television.
Smith died of an accidental overdose of prescription drugs in February,
triggering a media frenzy over her burial, custody of her 6-month-old
daughter and the future of her estate.
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