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"Who died over two weeks ago."
"Uh, that's correct."
"Are you lying?"
"No, no. It's just that she's very much in the public eye at the moment."
"Does she have a big part?"
"She is the star of the film."
"And dead."
"Well, we dug her up and gave her a screen test — a mere formality in her case, and..."
"Can she still act?"
"Well... well, she... she still has this... this enormous, ah... ah, kind of indefinable... uh... no."
"Was decomposition a problem?"
"We did have to put her in the fridge between takes."
"Ah, what sorts of things does she do in the film?"
"Well, we had her lying on beds, lying on floors, falling out of cupboards, scaring the children, ah..."
"But surely Ms. Smith was cremated?"
"Well, we had to use a stand-in for some of the more... visible shots."
"Ah! Another actress."
"A dead actress. But Smith was in shot the whole time."
"How?"
"Oh, in the ash tray, in the fire grate and vacuum cleaner..."
"So Anna Nicole does not appear in the film."
"Not as such. Look, we've got James Dean in it, in a box!"
"I... I can turn the microphone off if you like."
"And bits of Jayne Mansfield..."
Adapted from "The Album of the Soundtrack of the Trailer of the Film 'Monty Python and the Holy Grail'." The interviewer's voice was that of Graham Chapman, and it was co-written by Douglas Adams. Both are also quite dead, but still also very much in the public eye.
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