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The Barbary Coast was burned down after the Great Earthquake of 1906, but its tawdry tradition lives on in the (now ever-dwindling) number of topless bars and strip clubs along Broadway.
The press, he says, "could define tawdry voyeurism as the study of 'character,' but the labeling couldn't obscure the true nature of this new kind of reporting."
Not a slick exploitation film with all the trappings of depravity but none of the consequences" (the Chicago Sun-Times ). Several critics take the exact opposite stance: The Los Angeles Times ' Kenneth Turan calls it "an unapologetically sleazy ordeal that delights in twisting the knife, a tawdry piece of work whose only raison d'être is making the skin crawl in the name of box office profit."
We deplore the tawdry chain of events itself--whether the deplorable scenario should turn out to be a president misbehaving and lying about it under oath, or the government brought to a halt by the fevered imaginings of an overexcitable young woman.
Among the elements of Lynch's self-plagiarism: an eerie soundtrack, creepy characters ( femmes fatales , scary thugs, ghoulish freak), and lots of tawdry sex.