America has placed a ban on burying dead celebrities.<\/p>\n
James Brown grew up in a brothel in Augusta, Georgia.\u00a0 Convicted of armed robbery at 16, he started a band with other prison inmates and earned the nickname, \u201cMusic Box.\u201d\u00a0 After a stint as a pro boxer and baseball player, he exploded onto the music scene in 1956. \u00a0Over the next 50 years, he became known as \u201cthe hardest working man in show business\u201d and was probably the best live performer in modern music history. \u00a0He was a political and social force throughout his career and a lightning rod of controversy. \u00a0He was married three (or possibly four) times, the last time to Tomi Rae Hynie under suspicious circumstances. \u00a0He died on Christmas Day 2007.<\/p>\n
Anna Nicole Smith leveraged her body to become the icon of overblown America. \u00a0Born Vickie Lynn Hogan in Houston, she was an eighth-grade dropout who worked a string of jobs at Jim\u2019s Krispy Fried Chicken, Wal-mart and Red Lobster. \u00a0She married a cook and had a son at the age of 18. \u00a0Her transformation began with breast implants and a job at a strip club in Houston. \u00a0From there, her career took off as she became Playmate of the Year, Guess Jeans spokes-model, and bride (and soon after, widow) of billionaire J. Howard Marshall, in the space of four years. \u00a0She moved on to drug and alcohol addiction, legal battles (which went as far as the US Supreme Court), weight gain, celebrity infamy and a mysterious death on February 6, 2007.<\/p>\n
James Brown\u2019s body was taken to the Apollo Theater in Harlem, and then to Augusta for an all-star celebrity extravaganza. \u00a0Since that time, Brown\u2019s heirs and Ms. Hynie have been squabbling over where the great man should be buried.\u00a0 So his body is being kept in an undisclosed (presumably cold) location. \u00a0No one knows how long the legal battle will continue. \u00a0Smith\u2019s remains, meanwhile, have become the center of a full-blown media circus with three (or possibly four) men filing paternity suits to prove they are the father of her child (and therefore in line to get some of Mr. Marshall\u2019s cash). \u00a0No one knows how long these legal battles will continue. \u00a0Today, the bizarre lead item on most of the news channels will be the surreal legal decision on whether Miss March 1992 should be embalmed or not.<\/p>\n
Here in America, we love our celebrities to death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"America has placed a ban on burying dead celebrities. James Brown grew up in a brothel in Augusta, Georgia.\u00a0 Convicted of armed robbery at 16, he started a band with other prison inmates and earned the nickname, \u201cMusic Box.\u201d\u00a0 After a stint as a pro boxer and baseball player, he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[56,223,328,641],"class_list":["post-241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2","tag-anna-nicole-smith","tag-celebrity","tag-death","tag-james-brown"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quicksilverhg.com\/thequicksliver\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}