![]() ![]() She disappears after giving Kimberly (stage name Lady Jade) a ride home, although Kimberly’s body is soon discovered. ![]() Samantha is the club’s top earner but she’s always willing to give advice to the other dancers when she sees them making stupid mistakes (like drinking with a customer at the bar when she could be selling him dances in the champagne room). She has a boyish body thanks to a misplaced chromosome, but her new breasts make her feel more like a woman. The first central character is Samantha Lind (stage name Ruby), whose boyfriend Nick reminds her that she is “part boy” when he wants to be mean. The strip club is apparently in a suburb of Chicago. Real Easy departs from the norm by making dancers the central characters and by exploring their lives in realistic detail, avoiding cliches and stereotypes of victimization. ![]() The stripper-with-a-rough-life-but-a-heart-of-gold is often the extent of character development in strip club thrillers, particularly when (as is usually true) the strippers are collateral or secondary characters. They remind me of Howard Stern interviewing sex workers (“So did your father molest you?”). Often, the stories take as a given that the strippers are performing for crude men as the natural outcome of a harsh life that presents few options. Sometimes, the strip clubs exist for atmosphere, as Bada Bing! did in The Sopranos. Usually, they are written from a male perspective. Way too many thrillers have taken strip clubs as their themes. ![]()
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