The Cut - This Is Pamela, Finally

While watching Pamela: A Love Story, the new Netflix documentary about Pamela Anderson’s life, I was struck by clips from interviews done at the height of the model turned actress’s career. The mostly male interlocutors are obsessed with her appearance (her breasts) and leer and ogle and ask vapid, degrading questions that Anderson largely tolerates with an almost preternatural patience and humor. She knew her lane and was willing to stay in it. But in several interviews, she reaches a point where she is clearly done with the condescension and lets them know she is more than fodder for male fantasy. Sadly, these valiant stands were mostly ignored. How could the interviewers recognize her humanity while so fixated on her buxom assets?

If you’re in the Northeast, you’re going to have a very, very cold weekend courtesy of a blast of arctic air. The City has resources for NYC renters whose apartments don’t have heat and who need to get their landlord to turn up the temperature. Casey DeSantis is definitely auditioning to be First Lady — why else would she wear four different cape dresses?! It’s long overdue, but new nutrition standards could limit added sugars in school lunches. Justice for Pin the lappet-faced vulture! And after 16 years on the run, an Italian Mafia boss has been arrested in France, where he had made a new life as a pizzaiolo. Somebody better option those film rights.

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