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The Last Showgirl is quietly touching but takes a while to settle down, writes MATTHEW BOND
The Last Showgirl may have picked up nominations at the Golden Globes , Screen Actors' Guild and Baftas, but when it came to the Academy Awards there was nothing.
The Last Showgirl may have picked up nominations at the Golden Globes, Screen Actors’ Guild and Baftas, but when it came to the Academy Awards there was nothing, despite raw and bravely revealing turns from Pamela Anderson and Jamie Lee Curtis and the fact it’s directed by Gia Coppola, granddaughter of Francis Ford, niece of Sofia... and Hollywood royalty. The Razzle-Dazzle, a classic Las Vegas stage show which has kept Shelly (Anderson) in rhinestones, double denim and fast cars for more than 30 years and which once employed her hard-drinking, older friend Annette (Curtis) as a dancer too, is to close after a 38-year run. The Razzle-Dazzle has been her life and while her estranged adult daughter, Hannah (Billie Lourd), can dismiss it as ‘a stupid nudie show’ she believes it is high art, a link not just to the great cabaret clubs of Paris but to theatre itself.
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