Once among the most upscale properties on the Strip, a gilded treasure box of showgirls and celebrities, a destination spot in a destination city, the Trop courts a different clientele these days. Gaze up at the domed, stained-glass ceiling that brightens the Tropicana casino floor with Art Nouveau-inspired elegance, and you’ll see a different hotel looking back at you than when said ceiling was constructed in 1979 with a reported seven-figure price tag.

Baskow/Las Vegas Review-Journal) mirrored, million-dollar canopy remains as it always was the same can’t be said of the surroundings reflected in its silvery depths. It pretends to be a moral story of an indominatable girl resisting 100 percent degredation and exploitation - but hey, this is about topless Vegas dancers (she bails at about 99.05234 percent degredation).A view of the Tropicana Las Vegas exterior, the site where the Oakland A’s are looking at building a ballpark, is seen on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, in Las Vegas. Alas, the same 'edgy' guys who made Basic Instinct went to extremes of bad taste with this flagrantly borderline-porno a stew of stripper-stardom, drugs, ghastly boyfriends, betrayal, and bare booties/breasts. NC-17 got stamped on arty/indie film before this was the first time a mainstream NC-17 blockbuster went wide with an ad blitz. Notorious even before premiering, SHOWGIRLS tested the MPAA NC-17 rating for adults-only material. It still failed to bring real usefulness to the NC-17 rating other than to make everyone take notice of a movie best forgotten. Critics were near-universal in their hatred - a merciful Roger Ebert judged Showgirls bad but never boring, and some call it a 'cult' film. Between stripper-hookers, promoter-pimps, hateful choreographers, and creepy gay chorus boys, there's nobody to root for - but everybody worked hard on the dancing, obviously.

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