Pam & Tommy
2022; Oxford University Press; Volume: 109; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1093/jahist/jaac453
ISSN1945-2314
Autores Tópico(s)Cinema and Media Studies
ResumoMidway through the second episode of Hulu's eight-part miniseries about the actress Pamela Anderson, the rock musician Tommy Lee, and the videotape they made on their honeymoon, the celebrity couple watch The King and I (1956) on television. For the Mötley Crüe drummer, the musical is nothing short of baffling: “How many fucking kids he got?” The remark barely registers with Pam, who is digging the movie. To get her attention, Tommy announces, not fully non sequitur: “I'm gonna knock you up!”—words she very much wants to hear. Cue, on the Tv, the Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein classic, “Getting to Know You” (1951). Pam sings along. Tommy joins in. Pam grabs the video camera—the same camera they used to chronicle their honeymoon, the same camera that produced the tape that would in the coming months change their lives and the lives of plenty of other Americans. “I can blackmail you,” she shouts, gleefully. “Mötley Crüe drummer's secret love of musicals.” She doesn't know that she has stumbled upon something … something we all know already.
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