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Striptease
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Movie: Striptease (1996)
Book: Striptease (1993)
Premise
movie:
"At the Eager Beaver, a topless bar in Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, former FBI clerk Erin Grant dances nightly in
order to raise enough money to regain custody of her seven year-old
daughter, Angela. David Dilbeck, a kinky Congressman controlled by a
gang of murderous sugar cane growers, staggers into the club and
can't contain his sexual urges while watching Erin dance. He is
recognized by Jerry Killian, a sharp-eyed regular, who, also
infatuated with Erin, initiates a blackmail plan against Dilbeck
meant to aid Erin in her court case. Killian is soon murdered, and
Detective Al Garcia finds the blackmailer's body floating in a lake.
The plot spreads from there and begins to include characters from
society's fringes; there's Shad, the Eager Beaver's menacing bouncer
with some ingenious blackmail schemes of his own. Darrell, Erin's
psychopathic ex-husband, a small-time crook who deals in wheelchairs
stolen from rest homes and hospitals."
from:
http://www.hollywood.com/movies/detail/movie/180847
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Premise
book:
"Congressman David Dilbeck has a bad problem. "I
should never," he says, "be around naked women." But he just can't
stay away. And late one night, at a gaudy Fort Lauderdale strip
joint, Dilbeck loses control. He leaps onto the stage with the
performers and proceeds to demonstrate his affections in a most
unconventional way. The congressman barely escapes the scene, but
not before being recognized by an odd little customer known as Mr.
Peepers - an unlikely blackmailer, but (it turns out) a cunning one.
To save himself from an election-year sex scandal, David Dilbeck
desperately turns to Malcolm "Moldy" Moldowsky, a devious and cold-blooded political fixer. It is Moldy's mission to protect the
congressman's reputation, shaky as it might be, and soon the stakes
are murderously high. Meanwhile, the lust-struck Dilbeck secretly
pursues the current woman of his dreams, a formidable nude dancer
named Erin Grant. She has her own special plans for the wayward
politician. The chase leads from the staid corridors of Congress to
the sweltering cane fields of Lake Okeechobee, from a topless
wrestling pit to a sunken Guatemalan banana boat. It's a manically
inventive and suspenseful tale that resonates with the furious
intelligence, merciless characterization and savage good humor that
we've come to expect from Carl Hiaasen. "He is so good," says Donald
Westlake, "he ought to be illegal." In Strip Tease, Hiaasen is
better than ever. "
from:
http://www.carlhiaasen.com/books/strip.html
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Author:
"Carl Hiaasen (pronounced "hiya-sun") was born and raised in
South Florida and presently lives with his family in the Florida
Keys. He attended Emory University and was graduated with a degree
in journalism from the University of Florida in 1974. Since 1976,
Hiaasen has worked for The Miami Herald, beginning as a general
assignment reporter and later joining the newspaper's prize-winning
investigations team. There he worked on projects exposing dangerous
doctors, crooked land deals and drug corruption in the Bahamas and
the Keys. For the last nineteen years, Hiaasen has written a regular
column that has won numerous awards and earned him the enmity of
many sleazy politicians, who've found themselves the target of his
pen. In the eighties, Hiaasen also turned his hand to fiction. His
first novel, Tourist Season, was named "one of the ten best
destination reads of all time" by GQ Magazine. He is the author of
nine other best-selling novels, Double Whammy, Skin Tight, Native
Tongue, Strip Tease, Stormy Weather, Lucky You, Sick Puppy, Basket
Case, and HOOT, a Newbery-award winning book for young readers.
Together Hiaasen's novels have been translated into 27 languages,
and the London Observer has called him "America's finest satirical
novelist." Writing in Cosmopolitan, Louise Berkow describes
Hiaasen's fiction as "unbelievably funny --
tears-running-down-your-cheeks funny in spite of some pretty weighty themes like the
destruction of the environment." Tony Hillerman calls him "the Mark
Twain of the crime novel." The film Striptease, based on Hiaasen's novel, was a major motion
picture starring Demi Moore in pasties and Burt Reynolds in a Newt-Gingrich hairpiece. Hiaasen is also the author of Team Rodent, an
unsparing essay about the Disney empire, and two recent collections
of newspaper columns, Kick Ass and Paradise Screwed."
from:
http://www.carlhiaasen.com/index.html
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Director:
Andrew Bergman
Cast:
Demi Moore (Erin Grant), Burt Reynolds (Congressman David
Dilbeck), Armand Assante (Lt. Al Garcia), Ving Rhames (Shad), Robert
Patrick (Darrell Grant)
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