Elizabeth Berkley was all set to make Hollywood waves after achieving teen cult status as 17-year-old Jessie Spano, grappling with amphetamines caffeine pill addiction in Saved by the Bell.
Yet a swimming pool splash-about with Kyle MacLachlan in Robocop director Paul Verhoeven's 1995 skin flick Showgirls - the Us's first and only big-budget Nc-17 - unfortunately torpedoed her career before it began.
But as Showgirls celebrates its 20th anniversary this week, having been reappraised and reborn as a midnight movie regular, a musical masterpiece (tagline: "Singing. Dancing. Tits") and a classic exploitation film of our time (not our words, but Jim Jarmusch's), we look at what happened to the actress best known as Nomi Malone.
1. She won two Razzies
Worse than being on the end of a critical and commercial panning was Berkley's personal haul of Golden Raspberry awards for Showgirls, one for Worst Actress and Worst New Star...
Yet a swimming pool splash-about with Kyle MacLachlan in Robocop director Paul Verhoeven's 1995 skin flick Showgirls - the Us's first and only big-budget Nc-17 - unfortunately torpedoed her career before it began.
But as Showgirls celebrates its 20th anniversary this week, having been reappraised and reborn as a midnight movie regular, a musical masterpiece (tagline: "Singing. Dancing. Tits") and a classic exploitation film of our time (not our words, but Jim Jarmusch's), we look at what happened to the actress best known as Nomi Malone.
1. She won two Razzies
Worse than being on the end of a critical and commercial panning was Berkley's personal haul of Golden Raspberry awards for Showgirls, one for Worst Actress and Worst New Star...
- 9/24/2015
- Digital Spy
I admit it: I love cyber-punk. Mostly of a Shadowrun flavor. But like many geeks who came of age in the early millennium, I also cut my teeth on the burgeoning American fascination with anime. “Neon Genesis Evangelion,” “Akira,” "Battle Angel Alita," "Armitage III," and of course, “Ghost in the Shell.” So when rumor had it that Hollywood wanted to bring Motoko Kusanagi, the Puppet Master, and their world of New Port City to life, I was cautious. After all, this was the same town that tried to make “Akira” with Michael Fassbender and Andrew Garfield until George Takei stepped in to point out whitewashing is not okay. And we shall not talk about the "Dragonball" movie. It is stricken from the record. Turns out my caution was well founded. As of today, Scarlett Johansson is officially signed on to play the lead in the live action “Ghost in the Shell.
- 1/5/2015
- by Donna Dickens
- Hitfix
So a week or two ago, when we had the lovely blizzard of the century here in Dallas, I was called upon by a friend to come to her rescue while she was stuck in her boyfriend’s house with his little brother. So I grab up some DVDs at the bottom of the stack (the ones I haven’t seen in a while), grabbed a few slices of cake, wrangled some Izzes out of the fridge and hopped in the car to fight my way through the snow.
After playing some Assassin’s Creed 2 and kicking her boyfriend’s little bro out of the living room, we took full control of the projector and PS3 and decided to pop in a movie.
Our choices:
Tank Girl (Close contender, but we deciding we wouldn’t be able to pay attention because we’d be making jokes about yiffing) Armitage III...
After playing some Assassin’s Creed 2 and kicking her boyfriend’s little bro out of the living room, we took full control of the projector and PS3 and decided to pop in a movie.
Our choices:
Tank Girl (Close contender, but we deciding we wouldn’t be able to pay attention because we’d be making jokes about yiffing) Armitage III...
- 3/2/2010
- doorQ.com
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