Tuesday, March 01, 2005
Pamela Anderson Gets Caught Reading
from today's PW Daily:
I may turn out to be in the minority here, but I like this idea. Almost any publicity that draws TV attention to booksellers can be a good thing. Even You've Got Mail, that "of-course-the-indie-has-to-go-under" piece of Barnes and Noble propaganda, at least brought the chain vs. indie debate out to the public. And what better way to change bookseller stereotypes than to cast Pamela Anderson? Do you think they've hired booksellers to be on-the-set consultants? I would think employees of Book Soup or Dutton's would make a natural choice.
I'm going to give the show a chance. But we can still have some fun with it.
Rejected titles for this post:
Pamela Does Bookselling
From Baywatch to Borges
You've Got Implants!
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Pamela Anderson's Next Role: Bookseller
Booksellers haven't had much representation on television since Ellen DeGeneres ran Buy the Book on her sitcom Ellen from 1994-98. But Fox-TV just announced that it has ordered six episodes of a new sitcom called Stacked, starring Pamela Anderson as a bookstore employee who is trying to change her life and break her habit of falling for the wrong guys. She will be joined by Christopher Lloyd, who is cast as an eccentric customer.
Anderson is not such an odd choice; as a comedienne, she shined in the tongue-in-cheek action-adventure V.I.P. for four seasons (1998-2002), and her foray into fiction writing got respectable notices (PW found "Anderson's lighter-than-air debut" possessed "an amiable charm.")
I may turn out to be in the minority here, but I like this idea. Almost any publicity that draws TV attention to booksellers can be a good thing. Even You've Got Mail, that "of-course-the-indie-has-to-go-under" piece of Barnes and Noble propaganda, at least brought the chain vs. indie debate out to the public. And what better way to change bookseller stereotypes than to cast Pamela Anderson? Do you think they've hired booksellers to be on-the-set consultants? I would think employees of Book Soup or Dutton's would make a natural choice.
I'm going to give the show a chance. But we can still have some fun with it.
Rejected titles for this post:
Pamela Does Bookselling
From Baywatch to Borges
You've Got Implants!
