OpinionJournal - Citizen of the World via Clipmark, good sentences here: Breathless commentators these last few days have likened Anna Nicole Smith--whose untimely death, like her much-observed physique, was not the result of entirely natural causes--to Marilyn Monroe. This comparison is preposterous: Arthur Miller, who married Monroe, would have had little time for Ms. Smith beyond the obvious dictates of chivalry. It would be hard to imagine Ms. Smith courted by contemporary playwrights either, and not just because so many of them do not, as it were, handle women well.
Playwrights notwithstanding, Ms. Smith was the object of a fierce popular fascination. It could be said--and said not entirely as metaphor--that Anna Nicole Smith embodied America. She embodied its bounty as well as its overabundance; its exploitability, and its propensity to exploit. She embodied, also, its litigiousness, its enterprise, its universal offer of the chance to remake oneself (Gatsby did it one way, Anna Nicole Smith did it another). And to many foreigners--particularly foreign men--she embodied America in a literal way, too: in a brassy blondeness that people in repressed cultures marvel at. It is no coincidence that the places in the world where women such as Ms. Smith are the most popular are typically those with which the U.S. has the worst diplomatic relations.
...Some have condemned her as a "gold digger," but she wanted what you are supposed to want--money--and she worked industriously with what she had. And one must note that in America--where most adult relations have been recast as transactions--breast enhancement is the perfect meeting of commerce and sex: a means to lay bare the frankness of your opening gambit, and to make plain that it invites a response.

I asked rh, wasnt ans - unlike pamela anderson - apparently out-of-it mentally?
he said yes her opening gambit was all she had.