I'm Stephen McAffe, and this is the Slate Culture Gab Fest exploiting Pamela Anderson again, question mark, edition.

It's Wednesday, February 16th, 2022. On today's show, Pam and Tommy is on Hulu. It's a limited

series that tells the purportedly whole story behind the theft and publication of the homemade

sex tape featuring Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. And then Flee is, it's really an unusual

movie. I hope we can do it justice. It's a documentary whose story is told, mostly through animation. It's really an unusual movie. I hope we can do it justice. It's a documentary whose story is told mostly through animation. It's about an Afghan refugee and is escaped first from Kabul and then Moscow and his resettling in Copenhagen. It's been nominated for multiple Oscars, including Best International Feature Film. I loved it. Finally, why and how does something so beautiful as a friendship die?

We discussed an Atlantic monthly piece by the writer Jennifer Sr.

Joining me today is Julia Turner, Deputy Managing Editor of the LA Times.

Julia, hey, how are you?

Hello, hello.

And of course, Dana Stevens.

And Dana is the film critic for Slate, but also the author of cameraman, colon.

I mean, welcome to the world's worst running joke is my total fucking inability to master the subtitle of your book. I don't have a right in front of me. Join you. Join the club. I also can't remember that subtitle. And as I said at our live event, and I say this with all love for my editor who suggested it, I think that that subtitle is too long. And that's why no one can remember it. SEO friendly, but it's moving units, right? As far as we know, yeah.

I mean, this is sort of a crazy moment where we're still calculating the sales and stuff, but based on the kind of buzz surrounding it, I think that my book is a hit. But I don't want to say that it's such a hit that I'm not encouraging listeners who have not yet bought it to buy it. Because if you like my voice well enough to listen to it every week on this show you hit damn well better go to the place where you can get uncut Dana for 432 pages I love it

I love the thought of uncut Dana and guys in green visors counting your money in a back room

somewhere that's the Dana Stevens I know and love. Guys, shall we make a podcast?

Let's do it. Let's do it. Yeah, let's do it. Okay. She was the star of the hit syndicated TV

show Baywatch, became a part in the expression, like a sex icon in her tight one-piece

lifeguard swimsuit, fire engine red. He was the drummer, meanwhile, for the metal band Motley crew. He was a

legendary bad boy, party boy, basically attach any masculine-centered pejorative to the word boy,

and it'll probably fit Tommy Lee. They met, fell in love. They got married, though not necessarily

in that order, only to discover that a homemade video they'd shot of their lovemaking

had been pilfered and was now for sale on this new and dark frontier known as the Internet.

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