The Rise and Fall Of a Tabloid Dream Excluding commercials, "Anna Nicole," a made-for-television movie Saturday night at 8 p.m. on Lifetime, is only about 90 minutes long. That seems like a not very generous allotment for the task at hand: telling the story of one of the most eventful, calamitous pop-culture lives of recent years. The subject is Anna Nicole Smith, who found fame by posing for Playboy, then became an object of scorn after marrying a rich 89-year-old, J. Howard Marshall, while still in her mid-20s. His death the next year, 1995, led to a lengthy court battle over his estate. Several other episodes in her life also became fodder for the celebrity press. In 2007, she died of an accidental drug overdose. Agnes Bruckner has the job of portraying Smith, supported by Martin Landau as Marshall and Virginia Madsen as Smith's mother. "It's men that ruined my life," Ms. Madsen's character tells her daughter in a scene from Smith's childhood. I don't want to see you making the same mistakes that I did. A lifetime of questionable decisions follows.