From KCRW, I'm Kim Masters, and this is The Business.

You might think Pamela Anderson, star of The Last Showgirl, would still be making bank from her

breakout role on Baywatch. But Anderson says she came into the business pretty green.

I wouldn't have thought this was going to be the number one TV show in the world, that it was

going to be in 150 countries, that they were going to make Barbie dolls with me

and never pay me anything from it.

This was at the beginning of syndication, and David Hasloff was a producer.

So even today, he makes millions of dollars a year in residuals I make a couple thousand.

It doesn't matter.

I mean, it all evens out in the end. Anderson, who says she was a shy girl from a small town in Canada,

tells us how a chance appearance on a Jumbotron at a football game

catapulted her into the world of entertainment.

She also recalls that her now former agent nearly cost her the starring role in the last showgirl,

which has brought her a sag after nomination for Best Actress.

But first we banter, stick around. It's the business from KCRW.

I am joined by my colleague in banter, Matt Bellany. Hello, Matt.

Hi there.

So, Matt, I have long wondered, like, what is it about the Murdoch family?

We know their dirty linen? It's all

public. And now it's like not just leaked public. People are going on the record. And I just

step back, you know, to a time when we were both at the Hollywood Reporter and Rupert Murdoch's

divorce was announced. And I was told that I needed to find out what happened when he

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