  urlLink Newsday.com - AP Entertainment &nbsp;"'Showgirls' Bares All in Self-Mocking DVD&nbsp; By DAVID GERMAIN AP Movie Writer July 26, 2004, 9:40 PM EDT LOS ANGELES -- It was '42nd Street' with pasties, 'All About Eve' with a G-string . Only those movies were cinema classics, while 'Showgirls' was so bad that adjectives such as awful, wretched and appalling somehow seemed too kind. But if a film festers in video stores long enough, its audience eventually will sniff it out. Since it imploded critically and commercially in 1995, 'Showgirls' has gained such a fringe following of movie masochists that distributor MGM is releasing a 'V.I.P. Edition' DVD set on Tuesday, playing up the film's campy atrociousness. " 
