This article was published on June 30, 2007 in the 27th issue of the journal. Vanity Fair and today we again offer to trace the changes, the main character of which was Vanity over the past 20 years. Here are all the articles that we are republishing.
“Four o’clock in the afternoon is too late and too early for anything.” The quote seems to be from Jean-Paul Sartre, or maybe it’s just a joke of some sloth (smart however). The fact is that the meeting with Pamela Anderson is scheduled for four in the afternoon, in Las Vegas, in her dressing room of the Planet Hollywood Theater. Here in the evening he acts as an assistant to the Dutch illusionist Hans Klok, who puts him in a box and cuts him into pieces.
The show is off-limits to children under 8 (yes, you heard that right: 8, not 18), partly because the “magic” is loud and risqué, and partly because Pamela is always in a bikini. You know it, but that’s American morality. The dressing room is as I expected: shocking pink, with spotted sofas, strategic half-lights and scented candles. It’s a hot June day outside, but it’s cool here.
Pamela is slimmer than I imagined, she has a childish voice and a smile of many years. She wears minimal shorts, endless heels and a “beautiful” T-shirt, as in the verses of Claudio Baglioni. Below, as if ready to explode, the giant breasts that have glorified the lady since then Malibu safeguards (very successful series between 1992 and 1997).
We know everything about them: silicone, yes, then silicone a little less, then silicone again. We know of a porn video of her first husband Tommy Lee, a marriage rejuvenated by two children and marred by vices (alcohol) and his violence, a divorce that was requested, delayed and then final. We know about a stormy engagement to another musician, Kid Rock, and a wedding celebrated exactly one year ago in Cannes, which also ended four months later. It is known that Pamela, who was born a brunette in Canada, became the prototype of the Blond California Goose, a real “camp” symbol, appreciated first by photographer David LaChapelle, and then by the film Borat. We know that Pamela is not embarrassed by this stereotype: in fact, she continues to repeat it, as evidenced by the sitcom. Dolly in the library (broadcast on Italia 1, Saturdays at noon).
What we didn’t know until today is that Pamela Anderson is a philosopher, even if she probably hasn’t read Sartre’s Being and Nothingness. Maybe she didn’t read Voltaire either, but no one imagines the stupid but wise Candide better than she.
On July 1, he turned 40 years old …
“I know, I found out a few days before.
How?
“Of course, I know that July 1st is my birthday, but I was absolutely sure that I was 39 years old. I miscalculated.”
Were you disappointed when you learned the “truth”?
“No, because I’m already fine, I don’t care that I’m getting old.”
How did you decide to celebrate?
“But I celebrate every day.”
She always smile. And yet there are sad pages in her biography: childhood abuse, broken marriages …
“I don’t consider myself special for better or worse. I have had ups and downs like everyone else. I will give you one thing, however. Anyone who has bottomed out in terms of public humiliation can only rise up after that.
What are you talking about?
“Of course, to hell with internet video. Fortunately, this is a thing of the past. Today I have a wonderful period of life. For three months I will be doing this show here in Vegas every weekend. And in the week I go back to Los Angeles to my children. However, next year I will be producing and starring in a new show that is being produced by the same group of people as Baywatch. It will be called Malibu and we’ll shoot it a stone’s throw from my house. That way I can spend even more time with the kids.”
Are your children (Brandon and Dylan, ages 11 and 9, ed.) the most important part of your life?
“Of course. Along with many other people: my parents, my brother Jerry, with whom I produced my next film, blonde and blondebut also my friends.
When you say friends, do you mean boyfriends?
“No, friends with whom I have a very tender and very physical relationship. We hug, we kiss, we roll on the ground together. In short, everything. Except penetration.
Is it true that she has a lap dance pole in her bedroom?
“I had it, now I’ve taken it off.”
But was it an alternative gymnastics apparatus or something else?
“Do I look like a person who plays sports? Of course, it was supposed to spice up my sex life. Now I’m single, I don’t need it anymore.”
Are you looking for love?
“Like everyone else. But, you see, I have two small children. Before I return to you, they must be 18 years old. They know that mom has friends, that she meets someone from time to time, but, seeing the collapse of two marriages, not ready to see me again in a stable relationship.