Another sign of the coming apocalypse
LOS ANGELES - Looking to go where no reality series has gone before, cable television's E! Networks last week unveiled a new show about ex-model, ex-playmate and ex-wife to an oil tycoon, Anna Nicole Smith.

E! President Mindy Herman promises "The Anna Nicole Smith Show," which is set to debut in August, will give viewers an insider's look at the outlandish life of the former Guess? jeans model who this March won $88 million in a court battle against the son of her late husband over her inheritance. The former Vickie Lynn Smith, a native of Houston, Texas, started her rise to celebrity as a model and soon became a Playboy playmate in March 1992. She went on to become Playboy's Playmate of the Year and a Guess? model in 1993.

"Unlike Mary Tyler Moore, Anna Nicole will throw caution, and not her hat, to the wind," Herman said.

"My life is a roller coaster," said Smith about the TV show and what viewers will see. "People won't be able to stop watching once they tune in."


Yeah. Kinda like watching a train wreck.