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...will be by the end of The Showgirl Must Go On, a 90-min. workout session that officially opens tonight and will play five times a week, 20 weeks a year. The other two headliners who will sport on the Coliseum stage when Bette's resting will be Elton John and Cher. "Me, Elton and Cher," she says of Caesar's year-round headliners, as a 1975 photo of the three flashes on the rear screen. "Does it get any gayer...
...payin' me." There's plenty of money lavished on the production too: $10 million (as she mentions three or four times during the evening), and it boasts some luscious videographic effects. Oh, and Midler does make an appearance wreathed in a 3200-lb. headdress of pink feathers. But Showgirl, written by Eric Kornfeld and Bruce Vilanch, and choreographed by Toni Basil, keeps its focus on the star. It's a big satin pillow for her outsize talents to cuddle...
WILLIE AND ELSA: Kate Capshaw took a lot of guff for her portrayal of insufferable showgirl Willie Scott in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. But the writers were also to blame. Far more appealing was Alison Doody's treacherous Elsa in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade--and, Holy Grail, she was a Nazi...
Louise Brooks A 1920s showgirl best known as Lulu in Pandora's Box, she epitomized the long, lean flapper look but had a healthy...
...Brooks' next picture was The Canary Murder Case, in which she played the Canary. As in A Girl in Every Port, she a showgirl floating above the crowd, this time on a swing - an object for men to look up at and covet. Her contract with Paramount was coming to an end, so she skitted off to Berlin to play Lulu in Pandora...