A pneumatic blonde model and former Playboy playmate, Canadian-American actress Pamela Anderson (a.k.a. Pamela Anderson Lee and Pamela Lee) burst onto the scene in the early 1990’s and defied skeptics by staying there. As star of the international television phenomenon, “Baywatch” (Syndicated, 1989-2001), Anderson cemented her seamless transition from modeling into acting and Page Six cover girl – the latter following her many love life travails with rocker boyfriends-turned-husbands Tommy Lee and Kid Rock. An internet-leaked sex tape with Lee did little to impede this one-woman entertainment juggernaut’s late nineties momentum. After over 15 years of fame, Anderson transcended to the next level of celebrity by becoming something even bigger – namely, a pop culture icon – and all of this without really any substantial credits under her belt. Ironically, this surreal objectification of her as “Superstar Sex Symbol” served as the driving sub-plot of the 2006 comedy “Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” Through many years, augmentations and PETA protests, Anderson never failed to fascinate a public, which, not unlike the smitten Borat, viewed the jiggling actress as America’s idealized blonde bombshell.
LOS ANGELES - With her 18th chart-topper "Touch My Body," Mariah Carey has passed Elvis Presley for the most No. 1 singles on the Billboard singles chart, and is now second only to the Beatles. But while the diva was in full celebration mode after learning of her latest milestone, she was also quick to put her accomplishment in perspective.