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Hollywood thinks so too. Director Herbert Ross, who did Funny Girl and Footloose, is considering her, he says, for the lead in a movie about Stripper Blaze Starr. Producer Ray Stark has talked with her about starring in a film about Libby Holman, the '20s and '30s torch singer. "Considering" and "talking with" do not cost much, of course, but Madonna's considering is moving in the same direction. "I don't think of myself as a rock star," she tells an interviewer as she cools out in her hotel room after her concert two weeks ago in New Orleans...
...Even now, it is one steamy, and perversely compelling, picture, earning laughs halfway between a derisive snort and the bark of astonishment. Within the film's first few minutes, Russell and Screenwriter Barry Sandier have thrown every visual, verbal and sexual excess at the viewer. A played-out stripper dances while men masturbate at peepholes and a deranged preacher (Anthony Perkins) imagines her dead on the floor. The hooker dresses up in a tiara and a blue satin gown to play a beauty-pageant contender with an unusual talent. Neon flares like a headache in hell, and the screen...
Fleet Street erupts as Prince Andrew and Washington stripper Fanne Fox depart together for a remote cassle in Bermuda. "It's entirely innocent," the prince protests upon his return...
...same oblivious good cheer comes through in a feature called "Young Love Gives Millionaire Sidney Down a New Lease on Life," the story of a Las Vegas stripper's whirlwind courtship with an 87-year-old tycoon. "Sidney took Goldie for a brief spin in his private jet, gave her a $300,000 necklace...But it wasn't until after they'd exchanged vows, back in Nevada, that he revealed his startling secret--that he is one of the richest men in the country." In real life and in the parody, People assumes the best about people--try to think...
...three of the defendants: "It was so tense in there it was mind-boggling. One juror, Barbara Freeman, was pounding on the table, calling those guys animals. She was hollering, 'Murder one! Murder one!' " Says Freeman, an advertising production manager: "It's a real skin stripper. You find out a lot about yourself. I came out not liking myself. I was impatient and in general pretty intolerable...