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Showgirls, Jade, and the fall of Joe Eszterhas. (Erotic 90’s, Part 14)

You Must Remember This

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Dol's Speech to a Crowd of Republican Fundraisers

1994 had been a year defined by an embrace of quote unquote family entertainment the two highest grossing movies of that year had been the lion king and forest gump. Two months before dol gave a speech to a crowd of republican fundraisers in which he accused hollywood's dream factories of turning out nightmares of depravity citing two films conceived of by pulp fiction auteur quententaren tino natural born killers and true romance. The portrait he painted of the current cultural climate didn't bode well for showgirls as it felt more like a product of the bygone era of sex and drugs.

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