Interview on set of Showgirls

Elizabeth and I both took dance classes and danced together at Tremaine Dance Center with Margarite Derricks long before Showgirls came to be.  We did take our dancing very serious, as she says.  We rehearsed for months, I think rehearsals lasted for almost 5 months.  We had a pole installed in our rehearsal studio, which was out in North Hollywood.  We had a lot of fun rehearsing at the studio.  Paul Verhoeven came to watch our dances one night, Elizabeth and I both performed our choreography for him.

Showgirls Promo for the box set edition on Access Hollywood

This was taken from a video tape, so it has bad quality... so bad, it's good ;-)

TRASHARELLA AVAILABLE AGAIN... original version.

https://www.createspace.com/Store/ShowEStore.jsp?id=256123

Hi!

I am making the ORIGINAL version of TRASHARELLA available again, but the new shorter version is going to come out on HALLOWEEN!! :-)  It's totally different, and it is so strange the way editing can change a whole tone of a film.  The original is more campy comedy, but this new version has a new tone.  It is much stranger and serious.  Although, I know, it's a hot mess... but it has some demeaning scenes in there, lol ;-) (ooops, fraudian slip?  I meant, REDEEMING.. ya)  I wish I could upload video to this blog, darn... youtube canceled my account because this new Trasharella commercial we made, for some reason, was "inappropriate"... I really don't know why.  Is it against youtube rules to be ball gagged while a painted faced vampire serenades on his accordion?  Or to kill a vampire with a barbie doll?  It's a PG movie, no use of "bad words" or anything, no F bombs.

http://www.tunecore.com/music/renariffel

Here is the soundtrack link, as well... let's boogie!  Thanks to Marcey for her artwork!

Funny Facebook

           I had my number one Showgirls fan, well not MY number one fan, but a Showgirls Fan who renamed himself Nomi Malone aka Warren Malone, who emailed me a link to a group of friends on Facebook.  They are so funny, really clever, and are cracking me up.  They have taken the identities of the Characters in Showgirls, Penny Hope being one of them.  They have the characters, like Cristal Connors, Nomi, Mr. Moss, Molly Abrahms, and others talk to each other and say the movie dialogue to each other on their Facebook pages.  I stole these photos from Penny Hope... or, I mean, me.. or, Gosh, it's confusing... I don't know if I am Penny Hope or this other person is Penny Hope, or is Penny Hope me?  I don't know... anyways... I love it and search Penny Hope on Facebook to check out their hilarious banter.

Star Dancer

Star Dancer is my new script. I haven't posted it on imdb yet, but here is the unofficial announcement, whispering to you my secret. I also have another new script about Marie Antoinette Uncensored, it is very different from the fabulous movie that Sophia Coppola made. I also have Trasharella In Space script completed, I finished this one a while back. I love writing screenplays. But, it is so consuming and I write for 12 to 15 hours a day. So, my workouts and the rest of my life gets put on hold while I slave away, well, not really slave away because I love love love it so much. It is really returning to my childhood. I know this may sound strange to some, but I bet some people relate... it reminds me of my childhood because I would spend my days imagining stories. I loved to play with Barbie Dolls and create a soap opera life for them. And my friends and I would always do those role play types of child's play, kind of like playing "Cowboys and Indians", but we had names like "Poor Girls", "Rich Ladies", "Indian Girls", "Naked Ladies" (must have been an early psychic premonition of Showgirls), ya, we thought we were so clever, candy cigarettes for the "Rich Ladies" and brooms for our "Poor Girls" skits... I think we were doing a take on Little House On The Prairie. But, we were in our imaginations, living in these make believe worlds. And that is like writing a story or screenplay. It's like really being there, inside the story. A lot like acting.