1 spokesperson for going makeupfree is experiencing what folks have dubbeda comeback.

Yet she hasnt needed to come back from anywhere.

What is being sold on Andersons behalf right now is not a return.

Pamela Anderson in ‘The Last Showgirl.'

Pamela Anderson in ‘The Last Showgirl.‘Roadside Attractions

Rather, its a reinvention, and this is whereThe Last Showgirlcomes in.

Its been fashioned as her version ofThe Wrestler,with rhinestones and feathers subbing in for kneepads and lycra.

This miserablist melodrama wants to reintroduce you to Pamela Anderson, now playing the role of Serious Actor.

Shelly started donning the skintight sequined bodysuits back in the late 1980s.

Eddie felt they deserved to hear it from him first.

But the show is the last of its kind, argues Shelly.

Annette offers to get her friend a job slinging cocktails.

Shelly just wants to keep dancing.

That was the dream she chased and caught, the one for which she gave up everything.

And now she has to come to grips with the fact that the dream may very well be over.

Its not a bad performance by any means.

If folks are determined to declare a full-blown Anderson-aissance, go for it.