Stripper of the Day: "Nancy Callahan"
Monday, July 9, 2012 at 10:30PM While Magic Mike is in theaters we're celebrating memorable movie strippers.
Just a horny excop watching an exotic dancer
Though Sin City (2005) plays like a compilation of short films rather than a traditional narrative feature, the story that's barely tying it all together features an old cop Hartigan (Bruce Willis) with a heart condition and his life-changing rescue of a kidnapped a little girl named Nancy Hallaway. Hartigan is punished for his good dead, framed as her rapist by a powerful senator and rots in prison. Nancy writes him weekly as "Cordelia". She grows up to be Jessica Alba. And as Hartigan says observantly in voiceover once he's out of the slammer and in her club...
She grew up. She filled out.
The club in question is a "lousy saloon" called Kadies, specializing in Booze & Broads. It advertizes this way: "liquour upfront" and "poker in the back". [Ahem] Given Sin City's horny adolescent boy sexuality, it's impossible not to read that euphemistically.
Given the Alba Mania circa 2005 you'd think her strip routine was the end game of movie stripteases but she doesn't actually take anything off.
Jessica Alba, Mickey Rourke, Sin City, strippers