All The News That's Fit To Strip

Sauci Calla Horra, a member of Toronto's Skin Tight Outta Sight, is on a mission to shimmy, shake and spread the love of burlesque clear across the country.

"I was always a bit of a showboat. I had a fantasy of wanting to be a glamorous lady. I had this image of a very exotic-looking woman in a fur coat and high heels and an evening gown," she said. "But I don't think I ever imagined I'd be going across the country and taking off my clothes."

In other news ...

The New York Times chats with the last surviving Ziegfeld Girl.

The Las Vegas Review-Journal looks at Peepshow, the city's newest girlie show, which Lindsay Lohan is apparently in talks about.

All The News That's Fit To Strip

Tune in tomorrow for a full report on the Miss Exotic World pageant. Today, we dish up some savory non-MEW news.

Peer Gallery in New York has been bumping along with the exhibit American Stripper by Charise Isis. The exhibit shows off 24 black-and-white photos of exotic dancers taken over twelve years at clubs in upstate New York where Isis herself worked as a dancer. The photos aim to dispel "the general opinion of strippers as dysfunctional, marginalized and exploited ... The women depicted in Charise Isis's photographs are revealed as powerful and confident, using the stage as a platform for expression." Can't make it to the gallery before the exhibit closes on June 14? A monograph of the work is slated to be published soon.

In other news ...

Lindsay Lohan flashed her Spanx at the MTV Movie Awards. The actress, whose role in I Know Who Killed Me included a twirl around a stripper pole, "unwittingly mimicked her icon, Marilyn Monroe, yet again while trying to keep her dress down where it belongs."

"An assembly line of strippers" benefits breast cancer.

Where's the beef in Toronto's Boylesque?

Britney Spears has a quickie in the Pussycat Dolls latest video.

Blonde Ambition

I've thought about Lindsay Lohan's buzzed photo spread in New York magazine far too much this week. And not in the good, titillating kind of way. I kept wondering, is there some connection to be made in the idea that Marilyn Monroe mimicked Lili St. Cyr and Li Lo mimicked Marilyn? Clearly, the fumes from the perfume ads got to my head.

It was this bit from the Los Angeles Times that cleared the fog: "Why do starlets insist on channeling Marilyn Monroe? At some point, every actress decides to have her "Marilyn moment" and dons a platinum wig and a fake mole to prove that she's capable of playing an American icon. ... [It is] rather sad that so many young actresses crib Monroe instead of inventing their own unique images. If you're devoid of charisma and innate sexual appeal, maybe it's time to try beekeeping."

As if to further the point, Lohan swept the Razzies this week, earning a record eight "wins" for her role as a stripper in I Know Who Killed Me.

Lindsay Mugs For the Camera

After a stint in rehab, Lindsay Lohan messed up. She ended up posing for this mugshot this morning. The sometimes red-head's latest movie, I Know Who Killed Me, in which Lohan plays a stripper, opens this Friday. She told The Daily Mail, “I've been in pole dancing lessons, every day for four hours. I have bruises all over."

Here's the trailer for the flick, which offers a tease of Lohan's dancing skills.