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Why Anna Nicole Smith chose to go to Entertainment Tonight to break her silence, the same TV rag that gave Larry Birkhead—he of the baby-hair-dyeing suspicions—a platform to announce that he and not Howard K. Stern was the child's true birth father, we have no idea. We suspect Smith wanted to entrust her story to a media outlet she had actually heard of, and once the small matter of ET meeting her quote was addressed, bygones such as the fact that they had broadcast a two-part interview calling her a bald-faced liar just days after her son's death were quickly forgiven. The "World Exclusive" interview, to air tomorrow, features a grieving Anna Nicole who has clearly seen the inside of a salon recently, but whose edgy, new haircut does little to lighten an understandably heavy heart. ET correspondent Mark Steines reports from the Bahamas on the (wait for it) ET field blog:

There is a pool no one uses, gardens no one visits and terraces no one stands on to take in the very warm night air. Anna and her baby live pretty much like prisoners inside this home and we were actually some pretty welcome guests. [...]

The interview is a veritable rollercoaster of emotions. She giggles like a schoolgirl when she talks about the first time she realized she was in love with Howard. She beams like a mother when she holds little Dannielynn and says, "Can you say mommy?"

But it is when she utters the name of her son DANIEL that Anna Nicole is no longer able to compose herself. She crumbles like a house of cards, tears pouring out of her eyes, her body shaking from the sobbing. This is not just a controversial, misunderstood woman; this is a mother who has lost a child.

While other outlets were quick to pick up on Smith's mournful money-quote ("I don't understand why God took him and didn't take me."), we're looking forward to sitting down to the unabridged interview, where Steines will hopefully display his further mastery of the art of the simile, moments before Mary Hart expertly swings the bleak mood to one far more befitting a following segment on The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause's on-set hilarity, courtesy of Tim Allen and Martin Short.