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cletar
10/07/09

In reply to Bad Ideas From Hollywood, Part CXXXVII
So, somewhere there's a producer who will greenlight absolutely anything? Who is it? I have a bunch of crappy ideas I want to sell.
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KATE!
10/06/09

In reply to Bad Ideas From Hollywood, Part CXXXVII
part of me is so happy to read this but part of me knows it a horrible idea. NOT because the first was so bad, but because the second is going to be bad in an unenjoyable way. showgirls took itself seriously and ended up a hot campy mess and that is the beauty of it. this sequel knows why people loved the original and is going to try and recapture that, but its going to be so inauthentic!

and are they even going to be able to get half of the original cast back? although i dont know if i want to see jessie spano in a gstring again.
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Pizza!Pizza!Pizza!
10/06/09

In reply to Bad Ideas From Hollywood, Part CXXXVII
One of the few cases where '[Movie Title] 2: Electric Boogaloo' actually works.
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porcuPINE
10/06/09

In reply to Bad Ideas From Hollywood, Part CXXXVII
other "electric boogaloos"

-CSI (Law & Order 2: Electric Boogaloo)
-Wikipedia (Encyclopedia Britannica 2: Electric Boogaloo)
-Second Life (Real Life 2: Electric Boogaloo)
-George W. Bush (George Bush 2: Electric Boogaloo)
-Quebec (France 2: Electric Boogaloo)
-Scotland (England 2: Electric Boogaloo)
-Doctor Phil (Oprah 2: Electric Boogaloo)
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tiredfairy
10/06/09

In reply to Bad Ideas From Hollywood, Part CXXXVII
Also, was anyone else weirded out by seeing SO much of Jesse Spano? Just me? Okay.
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andBegorrah
10/06/09

@tiredfairy: I was so excited! And then I was so... was so... scared.
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tiredfairy
10/06/09

In reply to Bad Ideas From Hollywood, Part CXXXVII
That movie is so hilariously bad. And I still don't know if it was intentionally that horrible...or somehow meant to be serious in some way.

Her acting like she was electrocuted by Mr. Twin Peaks wang was one of the funniest things I've ever seen.
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Lymed
10/06/09

@tiredfairy: It was meant to be serious. She thought it would jump start her movie career.
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tiredfairy
10/06/09

@Lymed: Wow. Really? Because...it's like campy on LSD bad. The story makes no sense, it's shot like a Skinemax film, and everyone's acting is so over the top it makes Passions look like Shakespeare. I was hoping that was on purpose...
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BabyJane
10/06/09

@tiredfairy: It's right up there with Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, which is the campiest campfest of all times. (Needless to say, I highly recommend it!) Bonus points: The screenplay was written by the film critic, Roger Ebert.
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Kakapo
10/07/09

@tiredfairy: Only a brilliant filmmaker could create something like "Showgirls". It's awfulness is so sustained, and there is not a boring minute in it. I've maintained for some time that the film is actually an extended and hilarious critique of the script that Esterhaus delivered to Verhoeven. I know that's not actually true, but I choose to believe it.
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Kakapo
10/07/09

@BabyJane: "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" is actually the only Russ Meyer flick that I think is really mean-spirited. Homophobic and sexist in a way that his other films are not. "Vixen" is my very favorite. Quite "Strangers With Candy" in flavor, and genuinely satirical. I think Ebert's script for "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls" really missed the point of Meyer's other, better flicks.
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BearDownCBears
10/06/09

In reply to Bad Ideas From Hollywood, Part CXXXVII
And I see they're ripping off "A Christmas Story".
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sassyredhead
10/06/09

In reply to Bad Ideas From Hollywood, Part CXXXVII
Nah, she's a pole licker!
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Tippi Hedren
10/06/09

In reply to Bad Ideas From Hollywood, Part CXXXVII
"I'm not a stripper; I'm a featured burlesque performer!"
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Eric Northman is mine
04/25/09

In reply to "I Have Genital Warts. How Do I Guiltlessly Have Sex?"

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stoprobbers
03/21/09

In reply to End of an Era
Oh no! Vegas with out the Follies just doesn't seem right...
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CrankyOldBroad
03/20/09

In reply to End of an Era
These days in Vegas, the Folies is tame. Man, that is just sad.
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SpicyTamale is a GA peach
03/20/09

@CrankyOldBroad: I agree.

and I LOVE your avatar.
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Maulleigh
03/20/09

In reply to End of an Era
I'm very saddened by this. Where will we see young, nubile women with their tops off? Oh yeah: everywhere.
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Lymed
03/20/09

In reply to End of an Era
I have no desire to see the show, and yet, I somehow feel sad...
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AJ
03/20/09

@Lymed is moving back east!: I feel bad for all of the people who will be out of work because of this closing.
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Lymed
03/20/09

@AJ: hopefully they will get work quickly, as they are probably some of the most talented in the area....but of course, that means others won't be able to get jobs....now I'm sadder
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wednesdayam
03/20/09

In reply to End of an Era
I'm always surprised when something comes along to remind me that the Tropicana is still open and operational. That thing's a relic of a long-gone era on the Strip. Figured they would have imploded it and built some new luxury-hotel-casino there on that corner by now.

I just want to go inside and take a whiff in and have it smell kind of like a dying 1950s department store. I remember the Sands smelled like that when we visited it as a kid... there's something sad, creepy, yet comforting in that musky smell...
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midwestdesigner
03/20/09

@wednesdayam: I stayed there a few years ago (whaaat? It was cheap and convenient), and besides the smell of crushed dreams, there are also mirrors in the bedroom. On the ceiling. Above the bed.
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SpicyTamale is a GA peach
03/20/09

@midwestdesigner: I believe they were redoing the hotel within the last year or so. My best friend lives there and I use to (a LONg time ago)
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