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cantsleepawink ago

Just my 2 cents on 'Burlesque'

Burlesque v. Showgirls: Cher and Christina Aguilera Take on the Camp Classic

The comparison between the 1995 Paul Verhoeven film Showgirls and Burlesque, the Steven Antin film that opens today, is fairly inevitable. Both movies are about young naifs who arrive in the big city (Las Vegas and Los Angeles, respectively), wide-eyed and determined to do whatever it takes to win a part as a nightclub dancer.

I've been posting recently about this eighties pop band and the political 'messages' and possible association with pedophilia..here's a thread involving Showgirls:

Another Sisters of Mercy reference in the film "Showgirls" ...set in Vegas - Vision Thing (a Bush reference) - more occult weirdness