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Dates: during 2000-2009
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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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bette Midler Takes Vegas, Leaves Bathhouse | 2/29/2008 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Apr. 2, 2007 | 3/22/2007 | See Source »

Louise Brooks A 1920s showgirl best known as Lulu in Pandora's Box, she epitomized the long, lean flapper look but had a healthy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now You See Them, Now You Don't | 1/4/2007 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lulu-Louise at 100 | 11/14/2006 | See Source »

...wasn't just crime that captured his attention: the despair and shell shock of the Depression in America and the absurd opulence of the country's postwar era both inspired him. In one image, a young couple dances in a "voodoo trance" (ca. 1956), pictured; in another, a burlesque showgirl whose glorious body drips with glitter sips water backstage. Weegee's pursuit of regular people in their mundane vulnerability and well-knowns such as glamour model Bettie Page and actress Eva Gabor created a body of work that became emblematic of all New Yorkers, native and transplanted: the average...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Human Parade | 6/12/2006 | See Source »

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