COMING SOON TO THE SMALL SCREEN. Since everyone else is so into it, I suppose we’d be remiss in our cultural coverage if we didn’t note the strange passing of tragic mess Anna Nicole Smith. Any bets on how long it takes her story to become a Law & Order episode?

–Garance Franke-Ruta

Garance Franke-Ruta is a former senior editor at the Prospect. Her work has also appeared in The Washington Post, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, and The Wall Street Journal, among other publications. She was a 2006 recipient of a fellowship at the Joan Shorenstein Center on Press, Politics, and Public Policy at Harvard University.