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Just moments after we pointed out today's Fox News item about Law & Order's typically swift move to fill the void of dramas throroughly exploiting the rich source material provided by the Anna Nicole Smith story, a helpful operative shared this breakdown currently being distributed to talent companies for Anna Nicole, a much-needed independent film version of the tragic tale of America's much lamented tabloid queen:

STORY LINE: Vickie Lynn, a sweet but fiery 17-year-old girl from Mexia, Texas dreams of a better life for her son Daniel. A single mom, she pulls up stakes and moves to Houston and where her career begins. Vickie Lynn dreams of becoming the next Marilyn Monroe whom she idolizes.

With a breast augmentation and a mane of bleached-blonde hair, Vickie Lynn, a small-town girl becomes Anna Nicole, a sexy goddess. From a stripper to a Playboy model to the Guess Jeans girl to media star, Vickie Lynn loved her son above all and was never able to recover from his death at the age of 19. Her death followed his after just a few months.

We expect that this kind of treatment of Anna Nicole will be more dramatically complex than that of of the sensationalist caricature Law & Order will use for syndication-friendly, procedural cannon fodder, requiring the talents of someone with better than Kristy Swanson-level acting chops. A sympathetic, nuanced portrayal by an indie darling like Chloe Sevigny or Selma Blair (who has crucial experience practicing her craft while lugging around the kind of massive, fake breasts the part will demand) could really catapult either actress to that elusive "next level," so their reps would be well-served to encourage their clients to immediately submit their own interpretation of Smith's defining, poignant clown-faced monologue (we can't help but to keep returning to that pivotal moment in her late history) to the movie's producers and get a leg up on what is sure to be a brutal competition for the role of Vickie Lynn.