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...this rule crop up when the clan in question is particularly influential or glamorous--the Kennedys, Rothschilds, folks of that ilk--or when a family chronicler comes along who can tell tales so irresistibly engaging that the boundary between personal lore and public interest dissolves. That is what Nomi Eve accomplishes in The Family Orchard (Knopf; 316 pages; $25), a first novel in the form of an extended genealogy of the author's forebears, covering some 160 years...
Showgirls, a Las Vegas sex-and-dope opera from the Basic Instinct team of Joe Eszterhas (writer) and Paul Verhoeven (director), is one of those delirious, hilarious botches that could be taught in film schools as a How Not To. It tells the story of edgy, ambitious Nomi Malone (Elizabeth Berkley), a Vegas newcomer who gets a job as stripper at a seedy club, then screws her way to the star spot in a hotel revue, over the backs and other body parts of her rivals, notably headliner Cristal Connors (Gina Gershon...
Eszterhas must be great at pitching stories, because the screenwriting craft eludes him. A mild gag here--the mispronouncing of Gianni Versace's name--is tortured into an endless motif. Nomi has a clouded past, but that doesn't explain why she is such a gratingly annoying creature. The giddiest moment in this All About Evil by way of 42nd Street comes when a club owner is asked whether the revue should close down because the star is out sick. "Not a chance!" he actually says. "The show goes...
Which only proves he is as good at disinformation as he is at disentertainment. Nomi gets one job after having sex with the hotel's entertainment director (Kyle MacLachlan) and a better one after pushing the headliner down a flight of stairs. She has no soul to sell, no morals to corrupt. Kinda like the film. For 2 hrs. 11 min., Showgirls offers a slumming party inside the moviemakers' libidos. Ladies and gents, no matter how curious or horny you think you are, you don't want to be there...
...film's more memorable tidbits, Nomi's two-timing boyfriend unintentionally sums up the whole misguided mess, confessing, "I've gotta problem with pussy. I always have and I'm always gonna." We KNOW, Mr. Verhoeven. We know...