February 9, 2007
"Just a moment's pleasure."
UPDATE: YouTube has deleted this video, which was Bryan Ferry singing the song "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?" (The song was written by Carole King and made popular in the early 60s by the great "girl group" The Shirelles.) In the Ferry video, Anna Nicole Smith appears.
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I'll bet the diva alternately known as Althouse meant to post this.
Meade: Is there a difference? I tried to pick the one with the clearest picture.
Never heard Bryan Ferry before (I know, I'm sheltered), but man is that ANS? 1992, so just after she was signed by Guess, I guess.
From wife of the fry-cook at the local chicken joint, sometime Red Lobster waitress and Walmart checkout girl, to Playboy centrefold, model, and actress, and pleading a case before the Supreme Court, wow man.
Only in America.
Cheers,
Victoria
Amazing how lovely she was, before the drugs and the plastic surgeries and all the drama.
Nice link, and for such a fan of Roxy Music, I can't believe I never heard this version of the song before. Thanks, Ann!
Thanks for linking the Brian Ferry video, Ann. I hadn't seen it before.
Seeing ANS in the video made me realize what a paradox she was for me. She was capable of creating such an iconic image and vision; a magical sight in the right setting yet, in the same person (on her reality series), she could be the human equivalent of fingernails on a blackboard.
I don't feel like I'll ever know what was real, what was an act, what was the meds, or how I'll think of her years from now.
What a sad, weird tale.
An earlier version, but not unrelated
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE5zFYGAwHE
Ann Althouse said...
Meade: Is there a difference? I tried to pick the one with the clearest picture.
Oh. I must have offended the YouTube gods as I'm not getting any video from them at all... only audio. Hey pretty good job, for a blind guy, of figuring out what you posted, huh?
Well, what do you know. In the Shirelles vidoe referenced by stever,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xE5zFYGAwHE
, as they sing "or just a moment's pleasure?" we see film of Marilyn Monroe.
eerie don't you think?
Love love love the song
As gross she became later in her life, during this period (I'm thinking the video is from about 1991?), she was an amazing model. Her Guess Jeans print ads are classic. I can't find them on the Internet -- only her glamour shots are accessible -- but it was her sort of All-American farm girl pictures that were the most unforgettable.
They almost perfectly embody pop culture in America in the 1990s: A dream world of baby-boomer nostalgia...a yearning for the pre-1960s pleasures classic American landscapes and innocent yet abundant sexuality. Back when those ads ran, I think everybody wanted to live in that world. Even Bill Clinton chased that dream with a similar icon of those times, Monica Lewinsky. Same childlike face, voluptuous figure, same innocent vibe.
And the same big mess when the dream fades into the ethers.
Yes, I was looking for those old Guess ads. They were fabulous. She brought a voluptuous new beauty to jeands advertising, for a company that had been using the more austerely (yet equally sweetly) beautiful Claudia Shieffer.
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