You know, I have to say I like my take on Showgirls better.  Is that wrong?  Oh, and I at least was thinking it would be like Penny's arc in Forrest Gump, which I'm sure is redundant of something else since that movie is just a big best-of compilation (not that that's a bad thing, you get all your nostalgia in one go).

I remember ages ago I took the sequence where she's dancing with the towel over her shoulders and put a different song over it and it actually worked just as well.

See, another thing with Striptease is that there's a clear endgame, she's got to earn a certain amount of money to hire a better lawyer and get her kid back.  I get that endgame, everything else is just complications.