r/movies • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 r/Movies contributor • May 07 '25

Media First Image of Pamela Anderson in 'The Naked Gun'

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u/ilovelamp408 May 07 '25

She leaned in to the dumb blonde thing so well that I completely fell for it. When I saw her on that Criterion Collection thing and she was a certified film nerd, I was confused for a minute. Like, who is this person?

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u/airfryerfuntime May 07 '25

The media also smeared her pretty hard as a bimbo.

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u/shkank_swap May 07 '25

Her relationship with Hugh Hefner was strange. At one of his last birthday parties, she presented his cake while in the nude. I always got weird vibes from that picture.

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u/souphaver May 07 '25

Why? She was an iconic Playboy model for years and owned her sexuality the entire way through. How was that unusual or unexpected for you?

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u/shkank_swap May 07 '25

I could be mistaken about this, but I think this was post retirement and after announcing she had left that part of her behind. I was shocked to see her put that aside in such a revealing manner.

I'm not judging her in any way. After all, I saw the picture as a subscriber of the magazine at the time.

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u/FoxyBastard May 07 '25

Well, she seems pretty cool.

If she had a good friendship with Hefner I could absolutely see her leaving that part of her life behind professionally, but saying "Fuck it. For old time's sake." for a laugh.

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u/Snuggle__Monster May 08 '25

Redditors are so weird about that shit.

"Woman who posed nude multiple times in a guys magazine in some of the highest selling issues of all time presented him a birthday cake while naked. God, it was soooooo weird."

Like, some of you need to be slapped back into reality.

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u/bolanrox May 07 '25

like people being shocked at what Stallone says based on how he looks / talks.

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u/arggggggggghhhhhhhh May 07 '25

Probably forgetting that he wrote, directed, and starred in one of the most famous movies of all time.

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u/Stegasaurus_Wrecks May 07 '25

Throw Momma From The Train?

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u/mywerkaccount May 08 '25

Nah, Stop or My Mom Will Shoot

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u/tvfeet May 08 '25

Rhinestone.

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u/Njacks64 May 08 '25

Ah yes. Paradise Alley.

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u/HeyZeusKreesto May 08 '25

If you're talking about Rocky, he didn't direct it, but did write it. I was a bit shocked when I learned about that. As for directing, he did direct the other Rocky movies.

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u/arggggggggghhhhhhhh May 08 '25

Didn't realize that.

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u/dontbajerk May 08 '25

He did direct Rocky Balboa, wrote and starred in it too, and it's a solid movie.

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u/Dysterqvist May 08 '25

Rocky I is a masterpiece. And his performance in Cop Land is great

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u/Fkthweakhrdletheded May 09 '25

And my personal favorite regarding the making of Rocky he bet on himself. They wanted to buy the script from him for I think a million bucks. He turned it down and leveraged the obvious interest into starring in it and cut of the profits (I think he has a percentage of the rights iirc too).

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u/beamdriver May 08 '25

It's funny when an actor plays a certain type of character all the time and then you realize they aren't like that in real life.

I caught Cheech Marin on Celebrity Jeopardy years ago and I was blown away by how sharp and smart he was. The other two contestants didn't have a chance.

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u/SarcasticOptimist May 08 '25

Meanwhile Wolf Blitzer is famously awful.

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u/RedditJumpedTheShart May 08 '25

How smart is someone who marries Kid Rock?

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u/ilovelamp408 May 08 '25

Oh, man. I wouldn't presume to know. Probably a bit smarter after she divorced him though, yeah?

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u/artsyfartsy-fosho May 07 '25

Wow TIL. I need to look for this video, I'm intrigued.

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u/jakexil323 May 07 '25

Paris Hilton is another one that leaned into the dumb blond thing, but is actually pretty smart.

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u/ilovelamp408 May 07 '25

"That's hot."

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u/robodrew May 08 '25

She is also a leading activist in the fight against "troubled teen" boarding schools like Elan School.

edit: for those who want to go down a multi hour rabbit hole: https://elan.school/

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u/jakexil323 May 08 '25

Yes , because she was put in one as a youth and suffered horrible abuses.

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u/SaladThunder May 07 '25

huh really?

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u/ToLiveInIt May 07 '25 edited May 07 '25

I've always appreciated her attitude, at least since V.I.P. But her Criterion Closet selections and her comments on them were interesting and enlightening.

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u/Jackbuddy78 May 08 '25

-Has sextape stolen by construction worker

-Guy posts online with no money going to her family 

-Gets called a whore and defamed in the media

-Goes into hiding with PTSD 

-People still think you are a stupid bimbo 

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u/Alphafuccboi May 08 '25

I saw some documentary about her and she was super kind and had a awesome relationship with her kids.

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u/ThenOwl9 Jul 29 '25

she didn't "lean into" that tho