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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
Entertainment
Meredith Blake

'Pam & Tommy' 're-traumatized' Pamela Anderson. Her Netflix doc shows it in real time

When filmmaker Ryan White was an adolescent in the mid-'90s, Pamela Anderson was one of the most famous women in the world — a Playboy cover girl who rose to international superstardom as lifeguard C.J. Parker in the syndicated mega-hit "Baywatch," married Motley Crue drummer Tommy Lee after a whirlwind four-day romance and became ensnared in an early internet scandal when an intimate home video of her and Lee was stolen and distributed online.

But White hadn't thought about Anderson much in a long time when, a few years ago, he was approached about making the actor the subject of his next documentary.

Though he was intrigued by the broad strokes of Anderson's story, White was also wary of the image-conscious meddling that usually happens with celebrity subjects.

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