Old-school Las Vegas revues are ghosts now. Pamela Anderson is anything but. So why is 'The Last Showgirl' less than satisfying?

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The last few years have seen Pamela Anderson making headlines for her makeup-free looks but this Awards season has been all about the star’s turn in Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl. Playing an aging Vegas showgirl, there are plenty of parallels between Anderson’s own life and the character she’s portraying. It allows her to pull from experience and really bring forth a heartbreaking performance (even if it’s probably not quite good enough to be …

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Interview: Kiernan Shipka and Brenda Song Discuss Pamela Anderson's Comeback in The Last Showgirl

For much of her career, Pamela Anderson has been typecast as the “blonde bombshell.” She has mostly been given roles that rely more on her appearance than her acting talent. While she rose to global fame on Baywatch and had a few memorable film roles, such as Barb Wire and Scary Movie 3, her acting opportunities dwindled over the years. Despite her fame, she was rarely given the chance to prove her versatility as a performer, and she had never b…

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Pamela Anderson May Get Her Very First Oscar Nom - 34 Years After First Movie Role

Gia Coppola wears Jacket, Shirt, and Pants Bottega Veneta. After the director Gia Coppola watched Pamela Anderson’s Netflix documentary, it became abundantly clear who should star in The Last Showgirl, the story of 57-year-old Shelly Gardner, a seasoned Las Vegas dancer grappling with her past and future amidst the closure of Le Razzle Dazzle, the classic French-style revue she’s starred in for three decades. But when Coppola sent the script, wr…

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"I Couldn't Take No For an Answer": How Gia Coppola Got Pamela Anderson to Star in The Last Showgirl

**½/****starring Pamela Anderson, Brenda Song, Kiernan Shipka, Jamie Lee Curtiswritten by Kate Gerstendirected by Gia Coppola by Walter Chaw The distaff The Wrestler, Gia Coppola’s The Last Showgirl is a showcase for Pamela Anderson, reborn in middle age as a serious actor after a career spent being the butt of jokes, the object of desire, and the sufferer of violations to her privacy and dignity. Not to rob her of agency by painting her as stri…

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The new Gia Coppola film 'The Last Showgirl' launches a renaissance for Pamela Anderson and the third generation dynasty of the Coppolas.

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