![]() She’s surrounded by crates full of diaries and stacks of VHS cassettes and DVDs. She has attained near anonymity by eschewing makeup and wearing a mask - COVID, not Phantom of the Opera - and even attempting to marry a normal guy (don’t get too invested). White catches Anderson having moved back to her childhood community of Ladysmith, BC. Ruth and Good Night Oppy, with the task of trying to make compelling content out of a woman whose greatest determination as filming began was to be normal. This, unfortunately, leaves White, the prolific director behind Ask Dr. And it’s true! Long before this recent narrative shift to approaching Pamela Anderson as a person of some substance, I’d already thought of her as a surprisingly good talk show guest, a woman capable of gritting her teeth through leering interviews with men - always men, too frequently Jay Leno, whose status as one of the more toxic pop culture figures of the past 50 years becomes increasingly clear – and getting her message across, not that people listened. In Pamela, a love story, one of her sons - I think it was Brandon, who is a producer here as well - says that his mother has never had a problem talking about things, even when they get her in trouble. She’s talked about her horrible history with sexual violence, about feeling empowered when she first posed for Playboy, about her love for being in love. Want to know about her generally complicated relationship with Lee, the father of her two sons? For 25 years, she’s told anyone who would listen. Want to know what she thought about the theft and release of the Tommy Lee sex tape? For 25 years, she’s told anyone who would listen. She also - and this actually is a problem - has always been a fairly candid interview subject. It’s just that what it reveals is that once you get past the tabloid-friendly headlines from the ’90s and ’00s, the actual Pamela Anderson is a fairly smart, fairly funny and fairly boring - not in a critical way at all, just in a way that runs counter to expectations - woman who just wants love. Maybe it isn’t exactly that Pamela, a love story is unrevelatory. Like, if you reach, you could highlight Anderson’s one-sentence reference to dating Scott Baio and Mario Van Peebles at the same time? Is that shocking? Or is it shocking that when she and Tommy Lee had their whirlwind wedding, she had actually been dating surfer Kelly Slater? And Home Improvement and Allen don’t even warrant a mention in the documentary.ĭepending on your perspective, the biggest problem with Pamela, a love story may be how hard it will be to cobble together that sort of story. It’s one sentence tossed off with an incredulous giggle, one of several asides that I suspect Anderson is fully aware will be aggregated into “5 Most Shocking Revelations From Pamela Anderson’s New Documentary” news reports. ![]() I haven’t read the memoir, so I don’t know if there are long stretches dedicated to Home Improvement and Tim Allen’s penis, but I do know that the Stallone story in the documentary isn’t even a story. ![]() Elton John, Cher, Lil Nas X, Miley Cyrus Turn Up for Starry Versace Show in L.A. ![]()
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