Episode 1 of “Pam & Tommy” opens with a fictionalized version of an interview between longtime late night host Jay Leno and “Baywatch” alumna Pamela Anderson.
The scene struck me as being particularly sleazy, and I thought to myself, “there’s no way a respected, mainstream television host would get away with that behavior today.”Being the research-loving nerd I am, I looked up the real interviews, and while the exact exchange depicted in the show doesn’t appear to have taken place, the real life comments that inspired them aren’t much better.
In the clip below, Leno couldn’t help making…The post Pam & Tommy Shows Just How Awful the Media Was to Women in the ’90s appeared first on /Film.
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