New York magazine, July 8, 1996:

"You know what—dancing and nudity was not what this movie was about," Bruce Willis was saying last week at the New York premiere of Striptease, the movie in which his wife dances naked for men but you don't really get to see her new breasts until she takes a shower about 36 minutes into the film. "It's not really about taking your clothes off," Demi Moore, whose savagely tanned behind is available for viewing throughout, had said earlier. "It's a comedy about a woman fighting for her 7-year-old daughter." ...

Time was, men went to strip clubs because they liked watching naked women. But as Demi says, "It's about time that people forget that image of strip clubs as seedy places..." Rather, today's strip clubs are capital-intensive female-empowerment zones.... And the strippers, "they're heroes," Demi says. "They struggle to give their kids a decent life."

"One women I met," says Demi, who did gobs of research for her role, "was a single mother with two children, both attending private Catholic school.... She worked at nights so she could spend time with her kids."

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