Duelling Obits

A good indicator of how cock-eyed this wonderful celebrity-mired world we‘ve come to inhabit came about this week with the unexpected deaths of Ian Richardson and Anna Nicole Smith.

The former was one of the UK’s most highly respected actors of stage and screen. The other, an exotic dancer who wanted to be the next Marilyn Monroe, turned herself into the main attraction in a three-ring media circus.

No prizes for guessing which one captured the attention of the British news programmes and newspapers.