It was, without question, one of the great love affairs. And civilization is damn lucky to have permanent documentation of that love: 54 grainy minutes that rival, in terms of historical importance, Thomas Edison’s five-second-long kinetoscope, Fred Ott’s Sneeze (1894). Maybe even the recently discovered, remarkably high-quality footage of Queen Victoria riding in a horse-drawn carriage in Dublin (1900), holding a parasol and wearing sunglasses.
Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee are not wearing sunglasses, or indeed anything else, in the not very high-quality private sex tape (1995) that was eventually officially released as Pam & Tommy Lee: Stolen Honeymoon, among other titles. Nor, one assumes, are Lily James and Sebastian Stan, the actors who portray them in the upcoming eight-part (!) mini-series Pam & Tommy, on Hulu and in the U.K. on Disney+. (Episode One, “Drilling and Pounding,” drops on Wednesday.)
