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Elizabeth Berkley Makes Peace with Showgirls at Academy Screening
The star of the once-reviled, now beloved camp classic asked her agent at the time if it might win her an Oscar.
A sold-out crowd of 1,200 Showgirls lovers gave the film’s star Elizabeth Berkley three standing ovations during her introduction of the much-maligned, then adored 1995 camp classic at a screening at the Academy Museum’s David Geffen Theater on Wednesday. Showgirls was the follow-up effort from director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas after the runaway success of 1992’s Basic Instinct. Some of the stranger moments in the film — including one character’s reference to eating dog food — were taken from actual interviews with Vegas dancers conducted by Eszterhas, the writer revealed on THR ‘s ‘It Happened in Hollywood’ podcast.
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