Scott D. Pierce: The release of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee's sex tape was not a publicity stunt, it was stolen. “Pam & Tommy,” the eight-part Hulu series about that crime, is weird and surprisingly heartfelt.
Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee meet, get high and get married … all in four days.One of the weirder things from my 30-plus years of writing about TV happened a couple of decades ago at a Television Critics Association press tour: Pamela Anderson was at an L.A. area hotel to promote her latest project, and her sex tape was available on pay per view in the hotel’s guest rooms.
The story of that crime is told in the eight-part Hulu series, “Pam & Tommy,” which is also, well, weird. And surprisingly heartfelt at times. It’s a moment in time in the 1990s, when the internet and online porn were new. And, looking back, the media of the time does not fare well. Particularly Jay Leno, whose insensitive questioning of Anderson would not go over well today. “What’s that like to have all that exposure?” Leno lasciviously asks Anderson on “The Tonight Show.”
Lee is portrayed as an out-of-control moron. I can’t speak to his behavior then, but I did interview him once on the phone, and he came across as funny, charming and amiable — sort of a regular guy. But he was in a room full of people who, for the most part, were on his side. We were iffy on the new sitcom, but in 1996 Cosby was a TV legend. I’d been a fan since I was a kid. I watched “Fat Albert” cartoons, his 1969-71 sitcom and his 1976 variety show before “The Cosby Show.” I laughed at his comedy albums. I thought he was great long before his 1984-92 sitcom zoomed to the top of the ratings.
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