Happy Birthday, Showgirls

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Slip yourself into your favorite little number from Ver-sayce and splash yourself with some holy water slash champagne, for Showgirls is old enough to drink and shit's gonna get drunk y'all - Paul Verhoeven's ultimate sleazeterpiece (emphasis on "piece") came out on this day in 1995! Paul's gone and gotten all respectable (well semi-respectable) in the two-plus decades since with Black Book (which is still a trashy movie, just a trashy movie set during the Holocaust) and Elle (which is still a trashy movie, just a trashy movie in French starring Isabelle Huppert) but we all know his heart lay somewhere between downtown Las Vegas and a dish o' doggy chow that's lived in different places. Here's to your fuck, Nomi.