colorplay Perhaps You Didn’t Know Pamela Anderson Is a Cinephile

“There’s always an obstacle to great thingscolorplay,” Pamela Anderson said, recalling how the script for “The Last Showgirl” almost slipped through her fingers.

Gia Coppola, the film’s director, had watched Anderson’s 2023 documentary, “Pamela, a Love Story,” and recognized in the “Baywatch” star “a woman aching to express herself as an artist, and just brimming and bursting at the seams,” Anderson said.

But the actress’s now former agent turned the role down without her knowledge. So Coppola went to Anderson’s son Brandon Thomas Lee, who saw a part his mother would excel in. And she did. The drama, about a veteran Las Vegas dancer whose show abruptly closes, has earned her critical acclaim and her first Golden Globe nomination.

“I think being a part of pop culture is a blessing, but it also can be a little bit of a curse,” Anderson said. “You start at a deficit, so you feel like you have to explain yourself so much before you even get the opportunity to transform.”

Anderson called “The Last Showgirl” healing after raising two sons while being objectified and often devalued in her career.

“I felt like all of my life experience was worth it because I was able to bring it into this character and then step away from it and think, OK, I can let that go now,” she said.

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The assessment of Mr. Trump’s policies was published days after the Republican presidential candidate pitched his plan to create a manufacturing “renaissance” in America by cutting corporate taxes and regulations and increasing tariffs by as much as 200 percent. Economists have been skeptical about the viability of many of Mr. Trump’s proposals, and some of them could be difficult to enact. But the new report argued that if taken together, the policies would inflict significant damage on the U.S. economy.

For decades, Mr. Jameson’s voluminous work — more than 30 books and edited collections as well as reams of journal articles — has been required reading for graduate students (and some precocious undergraduates), not just in literature but also in film studies, architecture and history.

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