With Pam, you’re never sure what’s actually real
Former “Baywatch” babe and Playboy pin-up Pamela Anderson has a new addition to her resume: author.
The Canadian-born actress has been criss-crossing the U.S. signing copies of her first novel, “Star,” written with the help of ghostwriter Eric Shaw Quinn.
It tells the strangely familiar story of a late-blooming young girl named Star Wood Leigh who rises to Hollywood fame on a television show called “Lifeguards Inc.”
Anderson and Quinn were introduced by her publisher after she opted for a fictionalized version of her life instead of writing a straight autobiography.
How did they tackle the steamy sex scenes, based on Anderson’s real-life flings with celebrities such as Scott Baio, ex-husband Tommy Lee and Kid Rock?
“Eric would say, ‘OK Pamela, write some sex,’ ” she said. “Then, he’d look at what I wrote and we tried to keep it serious. But then we just laughed. He’s not shy or modest.”
Neither is Anderson, who appears on the novel’s cover nude, covered only by her “Star” logo.
But we’ll bet she’s no Nabokov
Amy Fisher, the former “Long Island Lolita” who spent seven years in prison for shooting her lover Joey Buttafuoco‘s wife in the face, has an autobiography called “If I Knew Then…” due out in the fall.
Fisher, who turns 30 later this month, is married and raising a young son, said co-author Robbie Woliver, editor of The Long Island Press, a free weekly that has featured Fisher as a columnist for the past several years.
Fisher says the book provides a warning to children and parents: “I did these stupid things, and I’m here to tell you, this is what you should watch out for.”
A little bit of makeup ‘Sex’
“Sex and the City” fans who miss Kristin Davis won’t have to wait long to see her again: She’s Maybelline New York’s new celebrity spokeswoman and will appear in TV and print ads at the end of the year.
“Kristin is the perfect personification of the Maybelline New York spirit – fun, flirty, sophisticated and sassy,” said Cheryl Vitali, the cosmetics company’s senior vice president of marketing.
The big hang-up: What will her fee be?
Lisa Kudrow is following in fellow former “Friends” star Matt LeBlanc‘s footsteps by trying for her own sitcom.
Kudrow is in talks to team up with “Sex and the City” writer Michael Patrick King, and negotiations are under way to have her star in one of a number of projects he plans to develop for HBO. Details are still under wraps.
Actually, it’s all blown out of proportion
Kirstie Alley, who’ll spoof the tabloid attention about her weight in an upcoming Showtime series, “Fat Actress,” admits she isn’t pleased with her appearance.
“The weird thing is, I don’t like the way I look – (but) I like who I am,” Alley, 53, tells People magazine. “I like who I am better than I’ve ever liked myself.”
By the way, the former “Cheers” actress says her weight is 203 pounds, not the frequently cited 300.
“My weight in the (tabloids) is being treated like a tragedy,” Alley adds. “Tragedies in my mind would be like AIDS, starvation, illiteracy, child abuse.”
Quoteworthy
Halle Berry, on beauty: “Let me tell you something – being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.”
The birthday bunch
Actress Catherine Hicks (“Seventh Heaven”) is 53. Singer Randy DeBarge (DeBarge) is 46. Country singers Peggy and Patsy Lynn (The Lynns) are 40. Writer-director M. Night Shyamalan is 34. Singer Geri Halliwell is 32. Actress Soleil Moon Frye is 28.