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What's day like for a stripper at the Players Club, where the girls' stab wounds and bullet holes are only out-paced by the number of kids that they have? That's a joke. This is an impressive first effort from Ice Cube. His premise: the characters might grow during the course of this movie, but understand that every day isn't an epiphany day--most days people just go around doing what they do. Even though there's a main character, Cube showcases a lot of inter-connected lives. But the one real treat was the cat fight...
...strange twist of fate and connections, however, I got in about an hour before the rest of the men, just in time to see the male strip-show. As the stripper stood on the bar and disrobed a willing teenage girl, the bartender suggestively sprayed the crowd with soda water. The sounds of moans and screams issued from the speakers, and hundreds of drunken women screamed for more, and I realized that I was not at the Grille anymore...
...time the stripper had a girl stripped fully naked up on the bar," said manager Melissa Brooks of a particularly raucous Ladies' Night. "He asked for a condom, and someone from the crowd tossed one up to him. He was all ready to go when one of the bartenders stopped...
...Orwell's Keep the Aspidistra Flying. She has played Marina Oswald (the TV movie Fatal Deception), Woody Allen's selfish wife (in Mighty Aphrodite), Sister Clare to Mickey Rourke's Francis of Assisi (no, really, in the 1989 Francesco), a French-speaking fashion designer (Portraits Chinois), a bachelor-party stripper (the BBC's Dancing Queen) and a scrubwoman who lops off vital parts of her deceased loved ones--tongue, lungs, finger, penis--as a protest against mining conditions in Nova Scotia (Margaret's Museum...
Mund's dissonant chording introduced "Future Boy," a short and volatile tune that showcased Deal's ability to convey the aggression that became a Breeder's hallmark. In keeping with the evening's quirkiness, Mund brought out a Fisher-Price xylophone for "Stripper," an irreverent waltz sung in an humorously childish voice. The Kelley Deal 6000 slowed the tempo down a bit for "When He Calls Me Kitten." This song lacked the cogency that distinguished the previous tunes. Maybe it was the crowd, maybe the sound, but this dreamy number came off as stilted and melodramatic...