![]() More recently, writers and hair-metal fans Tom Beaujour and Richard Bienstock published the indispensable Nö thin’ But a Good Time: The Uncensored HIstory of the ’80s Rock Explosion. For a much darker - yet still riveting! - take on life as a member of Mötley Crüe and all it entails, try The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star by bassist and unofficial band leader Nikki Sixx. ![]() The casting of Machine Gun Kelly as Tommy Lee is especially apt, considering Kelly and his fiancée, Megan Fox, are living out a very public, very loved-up and hyped-up existence echoing the early days of Pam and Tommy’s relationship. The 2019 movie adaptation of The Dirt, available on Netflix, does not disappoint, starting off with a bang (well, banging) and never letting up. The band is still at it, though, more than 20 years after their tell-all, and Crüe mania remains, albeit as a shadow of its former self. “Dick” even gets his own font! Lee’s onscreen conversation with Dick - brought to life by the alchemy of intense puppetry and CGI madness, some well-honed method acting from Sebastian Stan, and the truly singular voice-over talents of Jason Mantzoukas - is taken directly from Tommyland’s proudly purple pages. The official co-author is Anthony Bozza, but the book reads as if it was co-written by Lee’s infamous member. The other crucial source material is New York Times best-selling author Tommy Lee’s 2004 autobiography, Tommyland. Gauthier wanted money and revenge after a lifetime of being bullied by sneering, ego-driven, abusive - well - dicks like Tommy Lee, and instead, it brought him ruin. Seth Rogen’s portrayal perfectly conjures the Gauthier who comes through in Lewis’s article, which also emphasizes that none of the people at the heart of the stolen tape’s journey really won in the end. Gauthier himself is a true container of multitudes: the resentful son of a neglectful actor father, a philosopher-nerd, an accidental porn actor, an early web adopter, and a massive weed fan. Lewis met a friend of electrician turned burglar turned would-be-Internet-porn-impresario Rand Gauthier at a party in Los Angeles, and the rest is investigative journalism history. Pam & Tommy is based on Amanda Chicago Lewis’s impressive “ Pam and Tommy: The Untold Story of the World’s Most Infamous Sex Tape”, originally published in Rolling Stone in 2014. If You’re So Intrigued You Want to Go Back to the Beginning Now that the final episode has dropped, what will you watch, read, and listen to in an attempt to slake your thirst for more context and backstory? We’ve got you covered with feature films, documentaries, podcasts, and memoirs that will bring to life all the heady excess of gossip culture on the early Internet, with a dose of retrospective analysis from 25 years out. It’s equally natural to feel a bit queasy about a big-budget miniseries dramatizing one of the worst episodes of Pamela Anderson’s life. It’s only natural to be obsessed with the show’s vibe of sincere, flawed humanity and love in the midst of filthily lucrative mid-’90s excess. Hulu’s Pam & Tommy is the miniseries version of a flight of tequila shots: delicious, intoxicating, and a little nauseating.
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