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Weekly Theme for March 30: Strippers

We've all tossed around the idea in our heads. After a friend's bachelor/bachelorette party. Driving past the seedy looking nightclub with the mesmerizing sign reading "LIVE NUDES!" Hearing the stories about a friend of a friend that only works two nights a week and makes more than you did the last two months. We've all thought what it would be like to be a stripper.

Love 'em, hate 'em, crave 'em, abhor 'em, strippers are as commonplace as free Wi-Fi at your local coffeeshop. These interesting characters intrigue us with their tightly shaped bodies, their cavalier attitude about showing their naughty bits and uncanny ability to separate us from our rent money. Our society has embraced the idea of the stripper so much we give miniature versions to our children; we even hide our jealousy of them in the name of said figurines: Bratz. Let us not forget that Flashdance made more little girls want to be strippers than ballerinas. And The Full Monty made every guy say that "If that many people would pay to see Tom Wilkinson strip then I would make a killing!"

In closing I'd like to get the ball rolling with mine and a good deal of others favorite filmic stripper: Salma Hayek. Not one, not two, but three movies this lovely lady has portrayed an exotic dancer and continually outdoes herself. From her first foray for just a few moments in Four Rooms, to the grisly, yet unsurprisingly erotic Santanico Pandemonium in From Dusk Till Dawn, and lastly the cliche but still tantalizing school-girl stripper in Dogma.

Salma Hayek, we salute you!

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mercurial:

We've all tossed around the idea in our heads. After a friend's bachelor/bachelorette party. Driving past the seedy looking nightclub with the mesmerizing sign reading "LIVE NUDES!"

First off, I always wanted to find someone to make me a custom seedy neon sign that read "DEAD NUDES". So, if you know anyone..............

I can't really think of a whole lot of movies to add except one. Marisa Tomei in The Wrestler was fantastic..................... If I had a dollar.

mercurial:

 

In closing I'd like to get the ball rolling with mine and a good deal of others favorite filmic stripper: Salma Hayek. Not one, not two, but three movies this lovely lady has portrayed an exotic dancer and continually outdoes herself. From her first foray for just a few moments in Four Rooms, to the grisly, yet unsurprisingly erotic Santanico Pandemonium in From Dusk Till Dawn, and lastly the cliche but still tantalizing school-girl stripper in Dogma.

Salma Hayek, we salute you!

 

I second that motion fully. I am now standing at umm..... attention..... saluting Salma..

Now take a bow.

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Well, since it appears I picked another topic that nobody wants to talk about I'll just have to do the talking.

Not the greatest movie ever made but a landmark film nonetheless, Showgirls made an impact by being one of the few NC-17 films to get a wide theatrical release. And of course it turned the innocent bookworm Jesse Spano from Saved By The Bell into a knife wielding nymphomaniac stripper.

Another film that made a big splash was Striptease. Demi Moore showed just how good a mother in her thirties can look by exposing her recently enhanced assets to the world.

Jessica Alba helped increase sales of chaps and lassos in Sin City.

Natalie Portman showed up those critics of her work in the Star Wars prequels by showing some skin in Closer.

Not the best adaptation of a Chuck Palahniuk novel, but Choke does have a number of choice scenes, one of which involving the main characters predilection for strip clubs. After remarking to one of the exotic dancers that blondes have a higher chance of skin cancer and that one of her moles should get checked out, said stripper returns next time with her hair dyed brown and thanks him for telling her the thing about blondes. Ha ha ha.

Pecker taught me what muff and tea-bagging was. Thanks John Waters!

And lastly, Gilda with Rita Hayworth showing just how sexy stripping can be without removing hardly any clothes at all.

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I guess this is just another excuss for me to post more Salma pics.

Ooops.

********* Oh Yeah.... If Dr. Gor doesn't post in this thread, I'll spork myself in the left eye.

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leeroy711:

Oh Yeah.... If Dr. Gor doesn't post in this thread, I'll spork myself in the left eye.

Haha, where is that guy?!? I thought this would appeal to at least him!

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This wasn't at all much of a substantial stripper sequence but for some reason all I could think of was a short scene in Dragnet.  I think I saw it when I was rather young on TV and a woman with pasties on was a lot more than I was used to seeing on even a semi-regular basis!

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i watched an enjoyable B- or C-class movie a while back, in which strippers were pitted against super-poisonous spiders. Can't remember the name of it, but the women danced on a pole in a club in the shape of a giant tyranosaurus, the spiders came out of a suitcase, and the film starred a queen of low-budget movies who is known for dropping her shirt every time out, for a reason or no reason, but who can't dance a lick, so wore a fake cast on one foot throughout the movie as an excuse.