Word: baywatcher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...matter what artistic accomplishments will grace this new year, America will always have Pamela and Tommy Lee. Shortly after their marriage in 1995, the bosomy former Baywatch actress and the heavily tattooed drummer of the rock band Motley Crue put together a home videotape that included episodes of explicit sex. The tape, allegedly stolen from the couple's Malibu, Calif., home soon after it was made, is now infamous, turning up at dinner parties in Hollywood and in media offices in New York City. This month, voyeurs everywhere get their chance to ogle. A Seattle-based adult-entertainment company will...
There is something wonderfully satisfying about a guilty pleasure. Whether it be a sleazy novel, Ace of Base, the tabloids, St. Elmo's Fire, Melrose Place, a brainless action movie or Baywatch, it's mighty fun to gorge on trashy entertainment...
...year late-night career. (A longtime fan might be excused for thinking that the guy doing Letterman on CBS right now is an impersonator too.) But overseas he has never been hotter. Replicating Letterman for the locals is the most popular gimmick in international television since the invention of Baywatch...
...months ago a friend and I got into a debate about China. Forget constructive engagement," I argued. Forget embargoes, trade sanctions and all the rest. The way to foster political liberalization and free market capitalism in the huge country is to somehow pump "Baywatch" into the homes of all its people. You know, a kind of 'Radio Free Asia' for the David-Hasselhoff-deprived. If China would just succumb to American pop culture like the rest of the world, my thinking went, it couldn't be long before it adopted our values as well...
Television has come to repent, for it has sinned, my brothers and sisters, yes it has. It has sinned with thongs on Baywatch, it has sinned with adultery on Melrose Place, and it has sinned, time and time again, on MTV. But now prime time is appearing before you to beg forgiveness, to prove that it too can be a virtuous member of our community...