Banned in Las Vegas, the “Stripper Mobile” which turned heads in Las Vegas has found a new home in Tampa. But for how long?

The roaming stripper vehicle, which rode down to Miami for Super Bowl weekend and is now back in Tampa Bay, is under the watchful eye of the Tampa Police Dept. to see whether it violates any laws.

“Our attorney is looking at the way (the dancers are) dressed and obviously some of the gestures that they are doing (to see) if that is a violation of some sort of city ordinance or state law,” Tampa Police spokeswoman Andrea Davis told 10Connects in Tampa. But she also told the CBS affiliate that so far it doesn’t appear the “Stripper Mobile” has violated any laws.

The stripper vehicle, with plexiglas sides and a stripper pole inside, roams the streets while the strippers dance. By design, the dancers are not wearing seatbelts. The police department says it does not appear that not being buckled is a violation.

Sigourney Weaver has revealed her excitement at playing legendeary stripper Gypsy Rose Lee.

The 60-year-old actress isn’t at all nervous about baring all in new movie Gypsy and Me.

Sigourney told OK! magazine: “She was such a show person and she doesn’t take off much – everything is concealed, everything is about wit and it’s about the old time strippers, not about how you gyrated around, it’s much more about taking care of the audience.”

She added: “Gypsy Rose Lee was this brilliant woman. She was actually an intellectual and she wrote the book that Gypsy is based on.

“Her son wrote a book called G-String Mother about his relationship with his mother, because he was her dresser on the road and she was too cheap to hire anyone else. So from the time he was born he was her majordomo. It’s a brilliant script and I’m really excited.”

Siogourney, who stars in James Cameron’s Avatar, added she was looking forward to the Oscars.

She said: “I think everyone assumes that we all talk to each other all the time and in fact, a lot of us don’t know each other. There is just a mutual respect and understanding and it feels like it’s a very small community and a family.”

WSB News Sept. 28, 2009
ATLANTA (AP) Georgia’s top court has ruled in favor of five exotic dancers who argued that their right to perform was effectively stripped by an Atlanta ordinance that bans people under 21 from places where alcohol is sold.

In an unanimous opinion published Monday, the State Supreme Court found the local law conflicts with two state laws dealing with underaged persons who serve alcohol as part of their jobs.

When read together, “it is clear that the Legislature’s intent is to allow persons who are over the age of 18 but not yet 21 years old to dispense, serve, sell or handle alcoholic beverages as part of their employment,” read the opinion written by Chief Justice Carol Hunstein.

Attorneys representing Deanna Willis, Danielle Barbee, Ashlie Startley, Olivia Almeida and Rachel Haxo had labeled it a right-to-work case.

Justices agreed, writing that the city ordinance “directly impairs the operation of these general statutes by prohibiting persons aged 18 to 21 from entering in or remaining at the premises of licensed establishments where they are legally entitled to hold jobs that involve dispensing, serving, selling or handling alcoholic beverages.”

The opinion reversed a Fulton County Superior Court ruling that upheld the city ordinance.

The five women were 19 or 20 in 2007 when the city passed a law forbidding people under 21 from entering and remaining in businesses where alcohol is sold for consumption on the premises.

It exempted convenience stores, stadiums, concert halls and many other places, but not adult entertainment clubs like the Cheetah Lounge, where the women worked and where alcohol sales are a major source of revenue.

The women filed a lawsuit claiming the ordinance was unconstitutional because it violated their free speech rights. After a trial judge ruled in favor of the city in January, the women appealed to the Georgia Supreme Court.

A message seeking comment on the ruling was left with the city Monday. City officials have argued that the ordinance doesn’t ban women under 21 from nude dancing only from dancing in the strip clubs that make most of their revenue from selling alcohol. The goal, they say, is to prevent underage drinking.

But Alan Begner, an attorney who represented the five women, said city council members adopted the ordinance with no evidence that the dancers were underage drinkers.

“I’m really happy for a lot of adults who are under 21 years of age who now have employment opportunities that they once had, but had taken away,” he said. “This really is a case about both the right to work and whether a state can change the age of maturity from 18 to 21 in a haphazard way.”

He said he was unsure if the plaintiffs still work at the Cheetah Lounge.