I was really wondering what was going on when I just checked our blog stats...

Our 'Barb Wire Hits Hard' archived blog post about Pamela Anderson portraying the comic book heroine was #1 by far with 18% of the most recent viewers!

Well it appears that Pamela Anderson is 'dating' someone... Michael Jackson! Well, it is 'reported' by 4 entertainment blogs... so it must be true...???

Well, don't know about that, but here is my archived blog post about Barb Wire:

Barb Wire was a 1996 theatrical film based on the Dark Horse Comics, and was produced by Brad Wyman. 

The movie starred Pamela Anderson in the title role, plus Temeura Morrison, and Victoria Rowell.

The movie was set in the year 2017, and takes place after democracy has fallen and a fascist military junta has taken over the U.S.A. government.

The junta has plotted to wipe out the country with Red Ribbon, a laboratory-manufactured disease derived from the AIDS virus. The entire test city of Topeka has been annihilated, and only the small bastion of Steel Harbor remains the last free zone in the country.

Steel Harbor is the home of the title heroine Pamela Lee. Barb, a leather-clad, busty motorcycle mama,who besides owning a bar, moonlights as a bounty hunter!  The plot thickens as she comes upon her freedom-fighter ex-lover and his wife (much in the vein of Casablanca film).

I was one of the few that didn't watch Pamela on the Baywatch TV show, however I did catch her in a Playboy issue, and caught this movie near the end of its theatrical run.

In my opinion Pamela was right on as the heroine and so much so that the artwork in the comics started portraying Pamela's image possibly as a sales ploy. This is one of the early comic book movies before the recent explosion of this movie genre, and is actually not that bad....

It is watchable versus the first Captain America movie, or the first Punisher Movie, or even the first Fantastic Four comic book movie that was not released!

After viewing that episode with me, Tina pointed out to me that BarBara was the same actress that was 'Elena' on the episode titled the same on a Mission Impossible episode that we had just viewed the week earlier!

Back when I was watching TV as a kid, we didn't have VCRs and didn't quite catch that some of the actresses that I liked in certain episodes of TV Shows were on other shows.

It wasn't like films where I would go to see the latest Raquel Welch film because she was easily identifiable as a film star.

I never got into the 'movie mags' of the time as to who was married to whom, etc. like my mom was, and besides, usually the prime time hours of TV watching were picked by my mom and dad...

So being intrigued, I 'Googled' BarBara, and found that she was also in several other TV shows during the years as well as film.

I have blogged a few posts about her this past week, and ran across a few videos of her. At the top right is the 'best' one IMHO, that shows her range of acting and her different looks in different time periods.

The tribute video to the top right includes, (in order shown), her episodes on The Outher Limits, The Wild Wild West, Mission Impossible, Star Trek TOS, Man From U.N.C.L.E., Hawaii Five-O, and Buck Rogers in the 25th Century.

Enjoy!

Michael