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‘Showgirls’: The Gratuitous, Surreal Bomb That Was Maybe Brilliant
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a general story. New York Times Homepage is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 28 Sept 2026, 09:02 UTC. The headline in use is “‘Showgirls’: The Gratuitous, Surreal Bomb That Was Maybe Brilliant”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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The reception to Paul Verhoeven’s lurid 1995 melodrama starring Elizabeth Berkley, Kyle MacLachlan and Gina Gershon was humiliating, but it’s since become a thought-provoking camp favorite.
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‘Showgirls’: The Gratuitous, Surreal Bomb That Was Maybe Brilliant
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