Elizabeth Berkley was born July 28th in 1972 in Michigan. She was a teen star on the Saturday morning hit Saved by the Bell. The show followed a clique of popular high school kids and their oddball, outsider friend Screech through many relationships and high school hijinks. Berkley’s character had an on-again, off-again romance with the athletic, dimpled, sun kissed character played by handsome Mario Lopez. Throughout the entire show Berkeley’s character, Jessie Spano, was a feminist with high grades and no tolerance for any of their fellow friends schemes that might objectify women in any way. Ironically and to the surprise of everyone, when Saved By the Bell ended Berkley lobbied for and got the lead role in what has become known as one of the greatest fiascos and farcical attempts at female exploitation in film history, Paul Verhoeven’s 1995 Showgirls. Verhoeven was still flush with the controversial success of the sexual thriller Basic Instinct (1992) so his next project was expected to gain the same type of notoriety for Vegas showgirls and strippers. Instead, the movies script and reception were so laughable that Showgirls has only survived as a cult underground hit. Berkley’s ray of light is she keeps appearing in independent projects and at least the film did make an unforgettable impact on some segments of the public’s imagination.
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