Pamela Anderson's role as a lifeguard on Baywatch made her a global sex symbol in the '90s. But she longed to be taken seriously as a performer and person. Her new film is The Last Showgirl.

Pamela Anderson picks up a big haul in the Criterion Closet, ... I was the one sitting on the ground at Samuel French, reading Tennessee Williams and and Eugene O’Neill and Sam Shepard.