“I’m beautiful,” she says before a friend walks her offstage. “I’m 57, and I’m beautiful, you son of a bitch!”

Having spent the last year feeling increasingly out of place in a world that devalues art and process over expedience and automation, watching “The Last Showgirl” felt like looking in a mirror. So, maybe you can understand why an advert showcasing built-in AI features writing someone’s Christmas card caused me to fling expletives through the air like verbal snowballs.

Pamela Anderson, Kiernan Shipka, Jamie Lee Curtis and director Gia Coppola discuss making "The Last Showgirl," a tribute to Las Vegas dancers to which Anderson could relate.

Talk about a role of a lifetime. This is Pamela Anderson’s finest moment as “The Last Showgirl,” a story about dreams, sacrifice and regret. Gia Coppola directs the story that focuses on Shelly (Anderson,

Not a lot happens in Gia Coppola’s wistful character drama “The Last Showgirl,” but it’s an appealing collection of moments, writes Moira Macdonald.

Few are so strongly associated with Southern California like Pamela Anderson, but the Canadian-born actress won’t get her time in spotlight tonight due to the fires and high winds battering LA This evening’s premiere of the Anderson starring The Last Showgirl at the Chinese Theatre has been cancelled,