About that fan site with the episode summaries - go here http://www.lardbiscuit.com/annanicoleshow/ep209.html and read about Anna’s art show - very sweet - love the “baby” painting - but especially read further down - the stuff where Bobby Trendy shows up and Howard and Bonnie are there.
The baby painting was very cute. I’ve always thought that Bobby Trendy was a genuine true friend of Anna’s. Kind of cements it when Howard goes after him, and “mystery gal” throws a drink in his face. It is known that Anna’s friends and family were all driven away.
Could anyone find out if the proceeds of that art show actually ended up going to Anna’s favorite charity? Hmmm?
Good find, mommya!
Howard doesn't buy it and accuses Bobby of seeking publicity for himself by showing up at Anna Nicole's art opening. Howard rapidly gets overheated and starts flinging insults: "Bobby, this isn't a Clearasil ad."
"Howard, this isn't a nose job ad," Bobby retorts, predictably, "and how was it being fired from the law firm?" Howard charges Bobby with making all sorts of false statements about him, such as telling the press that Bobby has a restraining order against him.
The next sequence of events gets confusing. During their argument, Bobby pauses to address someone standing behind Howard: "Maybe you should get a ladder." A female voice replies, "Oh, really?" A moment later the same unseen woman tells Howard to move out of the way, and she throws a drink right in Bobby's face. "A ladder?" she says. "A ladder?" The drink-thrower may have been Howard's sister Bonnie, who was trailing behind her brother when he walked out to confront Bobby. But that's just a theory.
Stunned and dripping wet, Bobby says he's leaving and walks off to his car. You'd think that would be the end of the fight, and really it should have been. But it wasn't over yet.
"After I was in my car leaving, on my own accord," Bobby says, "Howard was pounding on the window." And this is where Howard shows that he's a bit psychotic. He had succeeded, with the aid of his mystery female accomplice, in his objective of getting Bobby away from Anna Nicole's art opening, and yet he stands on the side of the road at the open window of Bobby's Jaguar and continues haranguing him.
The two adversaries go around and around about alleged restraining orders and letters of forgiveness and statements made to the media. Blah, blah, blah. Howard is blind with anger and hatred, but he does make at least one sound argument: it's no coincidence that Bobby showed up at Anna Nicole's gallery opening. And the fact that he was miked suggests that the show's producers helped arrange his appearance without notifying Anna Nicole and Howard.
Howard finally acts like he's done ranting and he's going to let Bobby leave, but then he comes back and starts into it again. Bobby gets out of his car to face him, and that makes Howard uncomfortable. In his blathering, Howard reveals that one reason for his grudge is Bobby's efforts to hijack The Anna Nicole Show for his own ends. "Oh, let's make this show about me!" Howard mocks. "You're a f***in' clown."
"I am not a clown," Bobby says. "You're unemployed, Howard. Howard's unemployed!" I don't know if there's any truth to Bobby's claim that his law firm fired him, although it would help explain why he grew the goatee and got all slovenly for a while. Howard never directly denies it. But he walks up to Bobby and quietly makes this surprising statement in response:
"Actually, one of us is on the TV."
So on some level, Howard actually thinks of appearing on the show as his job and considers himself a television personality, and he's willing to throw that in someone's face during an argument. True, Howard could just be saying that to get Trendy's goat, but it is a change from his stance that Anna Nicole is the only star of the show.
At this point, Bobby has the golden opportunity to get in his car and drive away, and come out looking like the lesser of two assholes in this confrontation. But as he's done with some many other things in his day, he blows it. Bobby can't gracefully walk away when there's a camera trained on him. He just can't help himself. In rapid-fire succession, he plugs his in-development TV show, his web site, his store, and other various projects. Then he imitates Anna Nicole's famed preening on the hood of the Jaguar she received as Playmate of the Year. "This was Anna, a few years ago," he says haughtily. "Now it's Bobby Trendy."
He yells at the woman who threw the drink at him, calling her a "bohemian bitch." Next he says Anna Nicole "can kiss my white ass," and in the same breath thanks her for making him so rich. Bobby boasts incoherently about selling more pink beds and buying a new Palm Springs home and an Aston Martin before peeling out into traffic. In his wake Howard whoops and applauds like a jackass, winner of the war of the dickheads.
Whew. This marathon melee marks the first time The Anna Nicole Show has ever gone from one commercial break to another without a single frame of its star. All I've got to say is that the program suffers in her absence.
Back at the gallery, Warren Cuccurullo has bought the baby for a cool $4,000. I guess Moneybags Dauman couldn't hang with the obscure rock star. As the evening draws to a close, the representatives from Aid for AIDS are very pleased with the generous funds Anna Nicole has raised for their cause. Howard surveys the group to affirm that he was right to talk her into having the show and she's not going to kick his ass.
"Was this a success for Anna Nicole?" he asks. Everyone agrees that it was. One onlooker says, "Yes! And for art! And for women!"
I don't know if I'd go so far as that, but she definitely came out of this little adventure smelling like a rose. All along, she maintained the proper perspective on her work as an artist: it's just something to do for fun, and she's not good enough for anyone to make a fuss over. If she's right, she managed to fool a whole bunch of status-crazed Hollywood phonies. If she's wrong, she's an undiscovered genius. Either way, she wins.
It's highly illuminating to compare her and Bobby Trendy in this episode. Each of them possesses artistic "talents" of arguable merits, but Anna Nicole is the only one who admits it. She only agrees to exploit the situation for the sake of having a good time and raising money for charity, but Trendy habitually lies, cheats and screws people over in his self-obsessed drive for personal glory and wealth. In case there were any lingering doubts left over from Season One, this episode seals the verdict: Bobby Trendy is an evil and pathetic little whore.