07-Aug-2008
Story Timeline: 66 days
I was sitting at a picnic table the other day talking to Pamela Anderson. Mind you, the blond bombshell was 4,000 or so kilometres away. Anderson was in a Vancouver hotel room doing interviews to promote her new TV series "Pam: Girl on the Loose" (airing Sunday evenings on E). I was sitting in the shade at a picnic table at a cottage on Ontario's Bruce Peninsula, frantically jotting down the broken conversation while struggling to get clear cellphone reception. Not being able to see Anderson during an interview is just plain wrong. Barely being able to hear her is perhaps less tragic but also wrong when her words are why you are being assigned to write the story in the first place. Plus - and this didn't surprise me because I have spoken with her in the past - she's a great interview. No publicist comes on the line beforehand...
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