Mia
Mia is the most seasoned of the five principal characters, and the story of the plight of each woman is told from her point of view.  Born into an affluent multi-ethnic family, Mia’s close relationship with her family came to an abrupt halt when she secretly married her aunt’s step-son, Ronnie.  Her much older spouse, Ronnie, had an unknown career to his wife, and the newlyweds began to struggle with money.  One night over eating fries and drinking milkshakes, Ronnie asked Mia if she would try exotic dancing in order for them to support themselves financially.  Initially appalled by his suggestion, Mia re-thinks the offer as a means to pursue her dream of opening her own dental practice.  With her career goals in mind, Mia steps onto the stage of The Ranch.

Bre
A beautiful girl who hid behind baggy jeans and loose-fitting shirts, Bre was the star of her high school basketball team. Raised by her grandmother due to her absentee parents, Bre realized in high school that her good looks could lead to an illustrious modeling career. However, wanting to pursue her dreams of being discovered required money that her grandmother just didn’t have. Bre’s desire to travel to the larger cities, and build an impressive portfolio continued to loom over her head until she one day heard of a quick way to make a large amount of cash. With a fake driver’s license, and a fabulous makeover, Bre headed to an audition at The Ranch hoping to make the funds to become a star.

Omyra
Sitting in the bathtub and playing with the bubbles, Omyra’s father sneaked into the bathroom and rubbed his fingers along her vagina. While the incestuous sexual abuse began when she was only six years old, the nightmare didn’t end for Omyra until she ran away from home as a teenager. Living with boyfriend after boyfriend and entering into unhealthy and toxic relationships, Omyra found herself being forced into sexual trysts and drug use. Fed up with being reliant upon one abusive man after another, Omyra decided to go after the bundles of money she heard she could earn at The Ranch so she could once and for all be completely independent.

Kai
Having witnessed years of her father’s heavy substance abuse, Kai never really had much of a childhood. Falling in love with her high school sweetheart, and then losing him due to gang violence all made for a very bittersweet sixteen. With a heavy heart, and being mad at the world, it wasn’t too hard for Kai to end up in the wrong company. Introduced to drugs and alcohol, her style of partying like a rock star required money that her minimum wage job couldn’t afford. At the suggestion of one of the neighborhood guys, Kai went to audition at a place called The Ranch. Though it may have sounded like a job where she would have been milking cows, all Kai kept her eyes on was milking in loads of cash.

Crystal
Growing up without a mother wasn’t easy for Crystal. Having a step-mother at home, only to later abandon Crystal and her father, made the pain of loneliness hurt twice as much. In a single parent household, Crystal’s father did all that he could to provide for his daughter. Although she was never ungrateful, Crystal’s idea of a life was not limited to a roof over her head, and being able to get by with the bills. She always dreamed of more, and considered a college education to be her ticket to success. However, getting pregnant and thrown out of her home proved to be a challenge which she believed she could overcome. Getting into shape and learning to love her post-pregnancy curves, Crystal decided that a quick stretch at The Ranch would only be a detour to the life she always envisioned for herself and newborn daughter.

A shocking legal loophole discovered by authorities in Rhode Island.

While teens can’t pump gas or climb ladders on the job because of protections in workplace laws, there is nothing on the books keeping 16- and 17-year-olds from stripping – as long as they’re home by 11:30 on school nights.

Authorities discovered this loophole during a police investigation into a 16-year-old runaway found working at a strip club in Providence.

Rhode Island State Representative Joanne Giannini is working to change the law. She spoke to Kiran Chetry on CNN’s “American Morning” Friday.

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Gentle reader, hide your family: Late Sunday night, part of downtown Vancouver will be taken over by exotic dancers of the undead.

Broadway between Ninth and 11th streets will be blocked off and transformed into “Stripper Alley,” a world inhabited by a troupe of zombie strippers. But it won’t stay that way for long — the horror show is just part of filming for a locally produced independent film called “Stripperland.”

A spoof on last year’s popular zombie flick, “Zombieland,” and of other brain-eating classics, the movie features four heroes who are travelling across the country, fighting women who have been infected with a virus that turns them into zombie strippers, said Luna Moon, director of marketing for the film’s production company, Cheezy Flicks Productions.

Torn fishnets, high heels and fake blood figure heavily into the costuming.

“That’s how they kill, they distract their prey,” she said. “Guys don’t know if they should be turned on or terrified.”

The heroes are attempting to make their way to Portland for their final showdown, as the zombies kill everything in their path, she said.

Along the way, a few actors who could also stand to see a career resurrection — comedian Gilbert Gottfried and Daniel Baldwin, to name a couple — will have small roles. Baldwin, who recently moved to Portland to launch his film company will debut his rapping career in Stripperland, according to a publicity release. As Icky D, Baldwin’s character staves off zombie strippers by laying down phat beats.

“They won’t eat me, because they’ve got to stop and strip,” he says in one track.

B-movie king Lloyd Kaufman, director of 2006 cult hit “Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead” will also make a cameo.

Just how the movie’s writers arrived at combining strippers and zombies into one comedy/horror hybrid was a stroke of situational inspiration, Moon said.

“There are so many kinds of zombies: fast zombies, slow zombies, underwater zombies,” she said. “We said, ‘Wait a minute! We live in Portland, Ore. It’s the stripper capital of the world. Stripper zombies!’”

And though there’s bound to be a lot of (decaying) skin, “Stripperland” is set to be rated R, not NC-17, Moon said. There will be no nudity as the crew shoots on Broadway.

“Vancouver has a fantastic downtown area,” she said. “The streets are quaint and smaller — we just liked the way the area looks.”

Moon said that the entire film, which has a budget of just under $300,000, will be filmed in and around Portland. Besides the celebrity appearances, all the actors are local, as well. The expected release date is this fall.

Director and Cheezy Flicks owner Sean Skelding grew up in the Portland area and owns a film distribution company there as well, she said. Skelding used profits from the distribution company to finance the film, and will also use his company to distribute “Stripperland” to up to 160 theaters in the United States and abroad.

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