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Part one of our long national nightmare is over. According to CNN, Anna Nicole Smith is being embalmed right now, as lazy Manhattan lounges about in a post-Pastis stupor. There was a slight hitch yesterday, when the first funeral home's embalmers refused to sign confidentiality agreements and were sent packin'. Good thing! As if there's any way that pictures of Anna Nicole Smith's decomposing body won't published on the internet in the next 36 hours. Blech.

Embalming of Anna Nicole Smith's body begins [CNN]