The "Creamy Smear" of Celebrity.

James Wolcott writing in the September issue of Vanity Fair about Larry King's exploitation of dead celebrities, scribed a doozy of a spot-on sentence that stopped me cold:

"The orgy of attention lavished upon the creamy smear of Anna Nicole Smith's woozy demise and its awful aftermath was proof that a severe talent deficit is no hinderance to matyrdom in a postmodern Passion play."