Julia Stiles sat down with q's Tom Power during the Toronto International Film Festival to discuss her new film Hustlers. I have mad respect for all of the dancers on set because whatever dancing I've done, I've never done in four-inch stiletto platform shoes. I think that they had some dream sequences where I would be in the scene dancing when the men were unconscious. As the journalist and the eyes and ears for the audience, I'm kind of the judge and jury. I think that there were versions of the Hustlers script where there were kind of weird dream sequences that I was in. On her own dance training and whether or not she still dancesĪlone in my living room? Sure.

When I saw Jessica at a screening in New York, I was like, 'Congratulations, how do you feel?' She was more concerned about what the women in real life were going to take away from the film. I think I was largely inspired by Jessica Pressler, who wrote the New York Magazine article - the character that I play. I feel like you could tell this story five different ways. And then I really loved Lorene Scafaria's adaptation of it. So when I was sent the script and saw that it was based on that I was like, oh, yeah, I remember that. I had read the article when it first came out in New York Magazine. Read the article here.She joined q's Tom Power at the Toronto International Film Festival to tell us more about Hustlers and to share a little bit about what she remembers of being a teen idol. Neither Anthony Barbuto, Alicki’s lawyer, nor Gary Betensky, the Pais’, returned calls for comment.Īrticle originally posted by Gossip Extra. Pai eventually divorced his wife and married Melanie. Newspapers discovered at the time he was famous within the company for spending a lot of time during working hours in Houston’s luxurious gentlemen’s clubs.Įventually, the married Pai started an affair with Melanie Fewell, one of his favorite exotic dancers. Nicknamed The Luckiest Man Alive by the press at the time, not only did Pai come out unscathed, he also sold $250 million worth of stocks days before the Houston-based company crashed. Most of the extremely rich members of Enron’s leadership team served time in prison. The company went down because top executives found accounting ways to hide billions in debts and bad deals from shareholders. Lou Pai made huge national news in the early-2000s when Enron became the poster child for corporate greed and thievery.

In their recent motion to dismiss the lawsuit, the Pais say they didn’t sign any agreeement and that the salary talk they had with Alicki didn’t mean they had a firm deal.

Alicki is listed as the former head trainer at their Canaan Ranch.Īccording to the complaint, the Pais may have been as much as $200,000 short on their promises to pay Alicki.

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