Modern young women visiting Italy might not recognize those limits, though, because the stripper or girly show girl was so mainstreamed in Italy, especially during the years of Silvio Berlusconi's control of Italian television and politics.

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While 10 barrels a day produced by an individual well may not seem like much, when multiplied by the more than 400, 000 wells in the United States, they contributed up to 18 percent of America's domestic production in 2006, according to an industry group called the Stripper Well Consortium.

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With that he hops on to Take Charge Indy like a rubber band, the Paint Stripper doing what he does best.

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It will be up to the French public to decide whether it wants to watch the antics of constestants such as David, Julie or, Loana - a professional stripper, who spends most of her time in the swimming pool.

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Afternoon Delight (Jill Soloway): A Dark comedy about an L.A. housewife who puts her perfect lifestyle in jeopardy when she tries to save a stripper by hiring her as the nanny.

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Shears became a stripper and go-go dancer, saying he liked the attention as well as the money, and his group was originally called Dead Lesbian and the Fibrillating Scissor Sisters.

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Star Ellen Page received plaudits for her performance as the title character, and screenwriter Diablo Cody -- famously a former stripper -- has become one of Hollywood's "it" scribes.

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