Stripteasers

The Oscar-winning actress has played everything from a sassy car expert in My Cousin Vinny to a stripper alongside Mickey Rourke in The Wrestler. In an interview with Fresh Air contributor Dave Davies, Tomei explains how she picks her roles -- and why she's excited about playing a mother in the new film Cyrus.

Writer, director and exotic dancer Julia Query. Her new documentary is “Live Nude Girls, Unite!” about a group of strippers in San Francisco who fight to start a union. Now they have the only union of exotic dancers in the U.S. The women decided unite when they realized they were being illegally filmed by customers in special one-way mirrors. Using a consumer grade Hi8 camera, first time director Query filmed the actions of the workers. She is also a performance artist and stand-up comic, who started dancing as a way to pay the bills.

Fresh Air's movie critic John Powers reviews Striptease, a new film starring Demi Moore.

Miami Herald columnist and novelist Carl Hiaasen. The adaption of "Strip Tease," Hiassen's fifth novel, will be released on June 28 in a film starring Demi Moore and Burt Reynolds. In it, a seamy Florida politician is pitted against the star stripper at Miami's Eager Beaver club. (re-broadcast from 8/23/93) (Interview by Marty Moss-Coane)

Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews the Egyptian-born director's "Exotica," which centers on characters in a strip club.

Miami Herald columnist and novelist Carl Hiaasen. "Strip Tease," Hiaasen's fifth novel and latest gonzo thriller, is a yarn, pitting a seamy Florida politician against the star stripper at Miami's Eager Beaver club. Mr.

Writer D. Keith Mano. He often combines the spiritual and the profane in his writing.

Actor Erik Lee Preminger shares memories of his mother, burlesque performer Gypsy Rose Lee. His new book is called Gypsy & Me.