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Since we're celebrating twins until the stars move on from Gemini, I wanted to give a shout out to the figurative kind as well.
Due to sad circumstances offline I'm way behind on "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" though I did watch Joan Crawford in Possessed recently to catch up. Crawford's camp icon status got me to thinking about the best camp masterpiece in the past 25 years, one that we already covered in the first season of the best shot series. (Showgirls is hard-wired into my neural pathways so it's very easy to access). The legendary so-bad-it's-good movie pits "Goddess" superstar Cristal Connors (Oscar-worthy Gina Gershon... and I'm 100% sincere) against naive crazyperson Nomi Malone (Razzie winner Elizabeth Berkley). Cristal insists repeatedly that they're one and the same, virtually identical. Nomi vehemently disagrees but the movie itself is in Cristal's headspace through and through.
The best shot from the movie? Cristal, Nomi, and Nipples after the jump...
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