Oscar Weekend

The L.A. Starz team is all over L.A. this weekend, covering Hollywood's biggest night, as well as the parties and swag scene. We're off to Santa Monica this afternoon for the Independent Spirit Awards, then hitting the club scene tonight. Oscar Sunday has us attending an Oscar Viewing Party on Hollywood Boulevard and Monday morning brings the big adventure of joining 3,000 or so of Oprah Winfrey's closest friends and biggest fans for the taping of Oprah's After Oscar Party inside the Kodak Theater in beautiful downtown Hollywood. We continue our fan fare Monday afternoon, going over to CBS Television City to see a taping of the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, specifically to see the great singer songwriter John Mellencamp perform a song from his newest, greatest CD, Freedom's Road. John's segment airs on the Craig Ferguson show broadcast Friday, March 2nd!!

We're back!!

We've received a lot of emails asking where we have been and why haven't we been reporting on our unique perspective of the celebrity scene. Our principal rep had a long time illness and a pretty tough 2006. That's all behind us now, and we're back. I (Linda) admit I'm not so crazy about this blogging thing - I like the old fashioned way of writing articles within the website - but I'll try to keep up with the blogosphere.

Kim Denounces KimWalter.com, Supports Stern

Kimmy Walther, in yet another exclusive interview with Entertainment Tonight, this time with Jann Carl, denies that the newly launched website, KimberlyWalther.com, is hers. Oh well.

Kim Walther Denounces Howard K. Stern

Kimmy Walther, Anna Nicole's beleagured assistant on the E! reality show, may finally be breaking her silence. Shortly after Anna Nicole's death, Kimmy elected to make her My Space page private and has thus far stayed out of the media frenzy. However, a new website was registered 2/16/07 and emerged online today, and if this is really Kimmy expressing her opinion, Howard K. Stern will definitely be going down!!

The following is from kimberlywalther.com as posted 2/20/07:

Howard, let me see if I can get this straight

YOU LIED ON THE STAND TODAY! YOU SAID YOU DO NOT GAIN MONETARY BY BEING THE EXECUTOR OF ANNA NICOLE'S WILL? WHAT ABOUT THAT DOCUMENT YOU HAD HER SIGN ONCE YOU WON THE HUGE AWARD FROM HOWARD MARSHALL ESTATE??? DO YOU GET 10% OR 100% ??? SO YOU DO CONTROL THE EARNING TO BENEFIT YOU!!! WHAT A F&&*ING LIAR!!!!!!

1. Researched laws from around the country and found one that would benefit YOU in any paternity case.
2. Convinced Anna Nicole to move to the Bahamas for the benefit of her child.
3. Daniel died within hours of arriving and you flushed WHAT down the toilet?
4. You loved Anna Nicole so much you turned your head when you signed the FedX for the METHADONE?
5. You loved Anna Nicole so much you had to rush out and buy a Yacht and to take her where? A watery grave?
6. Did you have enough time to empty the refrigerator of anything you wanted to hide from the corner?
7. My guess the reason you don't want any DNA samples done on you or Dannielynn is they will find DRUGS in both systems.
8. Was Dannielynn born an addict?
9. Not for one minute do I believe Anna Nicole didn't have another will made out. You know she was obsessive about taking care of her child. What did you do with the updated will? Or did it not benefit you?
10. How much of a percentage do you get from the Marshall case? Did Anna find out you were bilking her out of her hard earned money?
11. Do I ever want to see your snout again? NO I value my health to much and your track record is not good…..people are dieing around you…
12. Where is Daniels will? I know he had one made out.
13. OH Please, Howard! Hot Smoochie Lips, Inc….Tell the world you wanted to star in your own reality show.
14. Where are the gowns of Annas that you sent out to be dry cleaned and they never returned? Will we be seeing them on ebay?
15. You never slept in the same bed with Anna!! You crawled in there after she fell asleep...she never invited you to her bed!!!
16. Now you have E on your side they won't show the real HOWARD!
17. The burial plots were bought by YOU...you sicko... that is the only way you could think of to finally get to sleep next to her each night?? After you are dead!!!! because it wasn't happening while she was living.

Thanks everyone for all the nice emails. I will start a forum.. and we will talk... I'm still in a state of shock over what is going on. And that judge?? what is up with him?? That bloke needs to go back to being a cabbie...

I'll add more questions as I think of them.. In the mean time sell some more of your false delusions. You never had Anna Nicole and you know she is looking down on you right now saying F&&% YOU Howard! I knew I couldn't trust YOU! I'm going to show up, when you least expect me! I have my own tapes... you had no right making a fool out of Anna like you did.

Kimmy

LARRY BIRKHEAD IS THE FATHER OF DANNIELYNN

Larry only wanted the best for Anna Nicole. He tried to do the right thing by her and his daughter.

Way to go, Kimmy!!

ET Denies Stern Blood Money

While Access Hollywood's Tony Potts confirmed on cable news shows that rival tabloid tv shows are willing to, and have, paid for first right to air 'exclusive' news, Entertainment Tonight's Mark Steines hit the cable news circuit in an effort to debunk the rumors.

Steines, accompanied by ET's Senior Supervising Producer Bonnie Tiegel, was first up on tonight's Larry King show and proclaimed "we've had a relationship with Howard K. Stern and Anna Nicole Smith" and "I found myself in a position to be on that (private) plane and asked Stern if I could do the interview." Steines and Tiegel insisted they did not and do not pay for interviews. Instead, "they hustled and got the exclusives."

So as far as ET is concerned, it just pays to be in the right place at the right time.

By the way, while we don't always know who is being paid what by whom for personal interviews, it is common for agencies to pay for photos or video that might accompany an interview. That payment, or licensing fee, usually goes to the owner or copyright holder of the images, i.e. the photographer or videographer, or in the case of, say, family photos, to the bank account of the person offering up the image for sale.

Tony Potts Blasts Paid Interviews

Access Hollywood correspondent Tony Potts really laid into "those other news programs" during interviews he was giving from the Bahamas today. Potts confirmed the rumor that Entertainment Tonight paid $1 million for the "world exclusive" interviews given to ET's Mark Steines by Anna Nicole's associate Howard J. Stern. The interviews began on Stern's private plane ride from Florida back to the Bahamas, continued as he "discovered" Anna Nicole's estate had been ransacked, included his "emotional reunion" with baby DannieLynn Hope, and tried to portray Stern as the grieving widower (and it's only Tuesday).

Potts told Showbiz Tonight's AJ Hammer that the news shows have to compete to get the latest scoop first and that Access Hollywood has been offered "the scoop" ... for prices starting at $50,000, but that AH has refused to pay for such "news."

Potts went on to question Stern's motives and behavior while still in Florida. "Isn't this the time for mourning?," said Potts of Stern, "he was not mourning in his room, he was negotating" shortly after learning of Anna Nicole's passing.

Tony Potts closed the segment with AJ Hammer by reporting "there is a lot of bad mojo in the Bahamas. It's all about the money." He also asserted that Prince Van Anhalt's assertion of Anna Nicole having 20 - 30 lovers may not have been far off, that these possible lovers were rich men - "millionaires, billionaires" - and questioned why Howard K. Stern would allow her these trysts. Wow!!

By the way, Entertainment Tonight's Mark Steines denied that ET or the Insider gave any money to Howard K. Stern "for interviews." That statement doesn't include the sale of pictures or videos, and implies that Stern may not have been directly paid - the money could change hands through a booking agent!

Did Stern Plan Break In at Anna Nicoles House?

In Howard K. Stern's 'exclusive' $1 million interview with Entertainment Tonight's Mark Steines, Stern announced on camera that every single important document and every single legal paper of importance was stolen from Anna Nicole's house in the Bahamas last weekend. With ET cameras in tow, Stern took Steines and crew through Anna Nicole's mansion, known as Horizons House, recording his report of what was taken.

At one point inside Anna's bedroom, Stern reaches up to the top SHELF in her closet and points out that THIS was where he kept all of those IMPORTANT LEGAL DOCUMENTS. On the TOP SHELF. Not in a safety deposit box, not even in a locked, personal safe.

Come on, was Stern really that careless and irresponsible with his only client's most important papers?

Howard K. Stern Seeks His Pay Day

Is Howard K. Stern a grieving Black Widower? He is reportedly receiving $1 million from Entertainment Tonight for Mark Steines' "World Exclusive" interviews, which ET is dragging out over 5 days of shows (is this sweeps week?). Not that this is the first time Stern has sold scenes from Anna Nicole Smith's private life. It appears that ET must have a first right of payment negotiated with Stern, which also allowed the infotainment show to be in the room with Anna Nicole when she gave birth to her daughter, Dannilynn Hope Smith, last September. A seven minute clip of Anna Nicole painfully undergoing a C-section can still be viewed on YouTube. And of course, ET was the 'only' program allowed to be with HKS and ANS at their supposed commitment ceremony last October. Knowing this now, we wonder how many times Stern cashed in by arranging these 'exclusive interviews' involving Anna Nicole.

On today's Entertainment Tonight, Stern's sister, Bonnie Stern, tells Mark Steines that Howard has not received any money as Anna Nicole Smith's attorney since 1996! She further said that HIS PARENTS have supported him these last 11 years!! Ohmigod, that must mean he will have some kind of claim against her estate for unpaid legal fees. In the meantime, we can be sure he will continue to keep baby Dannilynn close by. Without her, he might find that no one will pay to follow him around.

How Guilty is Howard K. Stern???

As we watch the news unfold concerning Anna Nicole's death, this is the question that keeps burning through my mind. Did Howard K. Stern mastermind and manipulate this entire scenario for his own benefit? Too many things seem to support this tragic idea, the most obvious being his presence at the scene of both Daniel's death last September and Anna Nicole's death yesterday in Hollywood, Florida. However, there are many other factors that seem to cast a shadow of doubt on Mr. Stern.

Of course, there is always the possibility that Anna Nicole's passing will be found to be of natural causes, with no foul play involved. The poor lady had been under a seemingly overwhelming amount of stress, coupled with natural post-partum issues, compounded by the loss of her beloved son. We have heard about people dying of a broken heart. Could this be what re-united Anna Nicole with Daniel in heaven?

But what about the prescription medications reportedly seen in Anna Nicole's hotel room at the Hard Rock Hotel and Casino? According to "insiders" for Star Magazine, there were at least four bottles of meds prescribed not to Anna Nicole Smith, but to Howard K. Stern. These drugs include Xanax (an anti-anxiety medication), Vicodin (for pain), Methadone (sometimes given for chronic pain in lieu of Oxycontin, MS-Contin, Kadian or Fentanyl, though it's not known if that applies here), and Provigil, a medication most commonly associated with narcolepsy, though doctors have found a variety of off-label uses for it (according to the manufacturer's website, Modafinil (Provigil) is a mood-brightening and memory-enhancing psychostimulant which enhances wakefulness and vigilance). In other words, Provigil is like an upper, frequently prescribed to offset the loopiness caused by other medications.

What kind of condition does Howard K. Stern have that requires him to take these drugs? Or did he obtain these meds on behalf of Anna Nicole because he just couldn't tell her no? Did he not take into consideration the pathology findings following Daniel Smith's death which stated that Anna Nicole's son died from a lethal combination which included Methadone along with Zoloft and Lexapro?