TMZ reports, based on "sources with direct knowledge."
I had some trouble understanding the expression "bake-off," since there was no competition, only collusion, pretending to have found love together. But...
A big slice of the stunt involved Pamela claiming she was baking muffins and sourdough bread for Liam -- something he even played along with in interviews leading up to the premiere. It makes us now assume that was also part of the strategy ... pure role-play PR, not reality.
So some literal baking was involved, but there was no literal or figurative bake-off.
Actors promoting a movie are still acting. Why not act as if they'd fallen in love?
If you go searching into the term "bake-off," you'll probably quickly arrive at something called the "First Lady Bake-Off." That's something that began in 1992, and it was an unwholesome alliance between the press — Family Circle Magazine — and the Clinton campaign. Wikipedia explains:The competition was inspired by a political gaffe made by Hillary Clinton in 1992 during her husband Bill Clinton's presidential campaign. In response to questions about her career and the Whitewater controversy, she stated that "I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession, which I entered before my husband was in public life". These remarks were controversial, and were perceived by some as a slight on housewives. Seeking to capitalize on the controversy, the magazine Family Circle came up with the idea of a cooking contest between the wives of presidential candidates....
ADDED: People has a different story: "Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson Romance Was Not Faked, Says Source: 'Everything Between Them Has Been Genuine' (Exclusive)."
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Hillary's bake sale idea for hard-pressed families was the seed of Limbaugh's Dan's Bake Sale. Dan called in and asked for a free subscription to the Limbaugh letter. Rush said no free stuff, why don't you hold a bake sale like Hillary said? And the bake sale was set off, with hundreds of thousands coming.
I remember Liam Neeson mostly for badly overacting the homeless bum in Cher's Suspect (1987), not a bad movie.
did she get her boobs reduced and then re plumped-up again?
That video wasn’t “flirty.”
The Tommy Lee video: now that was flirty.
I love a good bran muffin.
There was a coffee shop in Vancouver called "Bean Around the World" and they used to (perhaps still do?) make these big muffins filled with nuts and fruit and probably bran based -- so nummy. and good for the digestion.
Synthetic sugary muffins from the grocery store are disgusting.
If you bake homemade stuff - and then bring it.... chances are it will be gobbled up. because homemade baked goods are the best. News at 11.
and were perceived by some as a slight on housewives
…as a victim of the feminism if that era, Hillary certainly intended a slight on housewives so her words SHOULD be perceived as a slight…
Brilliant PR strategy. It generated buzz and likely got a lot of women who wouldn't normally see this movie going to the theaters.
Now, oddly enough, I'm craving a cinnamon roll.
The combination of Pam going makeup-less and Liam's serious actor persona was enough to fool me. But it is a comedy, a genre spoof. In the time of the AI slop, the PR bakeoff was perfect.
I love Liam Neeson! In that first “Taken” movie he kills something like 30 people and for some reason it is all kind of believable. “Yeah, Liam could do that.”
He’s created this Charles Bronson niche that is perfect for him. I loved that snowplow driver movie; Cold Pursuit.
I also loved his late wife in, “The Parent Trap.” He never remarried after her death. She fell at a ski resort in Canada. I don’t know if I’m correct about this, but I blame socialized medicine for her death. He did fly her to America for medical care.
I hope he finds happiness.
Might cast him as the Creature in my “Frankenstein, Part II.” But probably too old.
The desire to believe that people, even actors, "fall in love" is persistently irresistible. There is something good about that.
Bake Off is the name of a UK Baking competition Tv show that Netflix bought and show in America as Great British Baking Show. Often the UK winner ends up now with a trophy Plate but book deal, TV time worth thousands and if really "hot" then a TV show too.
The Pillsbury Bake-Off has been running every year since 1949. It continues to this day.
I think a lot of people knew it was theater. I know I strongly suspected it.
What characters.
Hollywood actors getting into torrid affairs with their costars is so common that it was regularly thought remarkable that Paul Newman stayed faithful to his wife, Joanne Woodward.
That Pamela Anderson typically plays a busty, ditzy blonde doesn’t mean that she can’t bake bread and muffins, does it? Back in the 1970s Roosevelt Grier was an all-pro defensive lineman, paid to violently push huge offensive linemen aside and smash running backs and quarterbacks into the ground. His hobby was doing needlepoint. So why can’t Anderson’s
hobby be baking?
It took me a while to realize that Liam Neeson isn't Leslie Nielsen.
" ... pure role-play PR, not reality." Why is Newsom described in this article about Hollywood?
I wasn't terribly happy when I heard they were restarting The Naked Gun franchise but I think Neeson is a brilliant choice as the lead and I think he will at least do his part well- I just hope the writers and the director are really up to the job.
Everybody knows Taken, but his real fun show is Non-Stop. Perfect for adrenaline junkies. With a murder mystery to boot!
Muffins? Sour dough? If this was genuine, she'd be baking soda bread with rolled oats.
The first time I saw Liam Neeson was in the John Boorman film Excalibur. He played Sir Gawain, and none too impressively, but he was a local and he came at a bargain price. It was Boorman's second major film produced and shot in Éire after Zardoz. (I'm chuckling as I type.) The Irish Republic was trying to buy its way into cultural dominance by kowtowing to artists in every way the government could think of short of literally knocking heads. If you made a film there, Irish actors, production crew, and extras came heavily subsidized. And if you lived there, declared Ireland to be your primary residence, you lived tax-free. (I believe that law has since been rescinded. Imagine Rosie O'Donnell living tax-free in Ireland and the resultant Great Irish Jelly Doughnut Famine.) Anywho, Neeson was in Excalibur and was worth every penny. (At the time Excalibur was more impressive to me than now as it was my first fully successful date movie--home plate and everything.) Neeson may have been cast in Zardoz as well, maybe as one of those loons in Zardoz masks and red diapers. The less said the better.
YouTube: "Food is supposed to be fun, not serious"
Back in the 1970s Roosevelt Grier was an all-pro defensive lineman, paid to violently push huge offensive linemen aside and smash running backs and quarterbacks into the ground. His hobby was doing needlepoint.
And his nickname was "Rosie". That was a man's man who was in touch with his feminine side long before it became fashionable.
Let's just see Pamela Anderson's, ahem, muffin.
Travis launched his clothing line a day or two after the Taylor engagement announcement. I will be flabbergasted if that relationship is NOT fake.
Sorry she’s lovely…
Is that a corduroy suit?
Iirc, Hildebeast's cookies quip was delivered with a ridiculous Southern accent. It was also around the time she was promoting a "2 for one" Clintonian bargain.
I guess this is Liam's way of recognizing that he's not an action hero anymore, that he's following Harrison Ford off into the sunset. Careful, though. Nobody ever took Leslie Nielson seriously after "The Naked Gun." It didn't do much for OJ Simpson's career either, if I remember correctly.
Liam Neeson will be remembered as the guy who killed people with guns in dozens of movies, and then came out with his European views on gun control. He even made a movie, I think, where he killed dozens of people without a gun. Anyway, I look forward to seeing "The Naked Gun-Grabber."
Pamela without makeup is beautiful.
I do even know what to say to someone who thinks Hollywood PR is real.
Who cares? No one
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