Television: Anna Goes Prime Time

SHE'S A LITTLE ADDLED AND HAS AN ACCENT: MEET THE NEW OZZY

Anna Nicole Smith is force-feeding me olives stuffed with jalapenos and garlic as we lie on her giant pink-satin bed watching Jerry Springer. "Why do those women get up and take off all their clothes?" she asks. After the eighth olive, my mouth on fire, she offers me a swig from her strawberry-yogurt chaser. "I've been in my jammies all day," she drawls in a Texas accent. Next we share a bowl of sliced pickles in lemon juice. She is not pregnant.

On Aug. 4, the E! channel will use this kind of material for the first of 13 episodes of...

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