![]() ![]() Stratten became estranged from Snider, an abusive husband, and began pursuing a promising acting career, suggested by a chance meeting with director Peter Bogdanovich in the series. She was just 20 and had finished production on her first major film, Bogdanovich's '"They All Laughed," when Snider murdered her with a shotgun in the Los Angeles home they shared on August 14, 1980. The look became the faux-classy trademark for the male dancers. "Dorothy Stratten suggested the Playboy Bunny look to Steve Banerjee, and he immediately loved the idea," says "Welcome to Chippendales" executive producer Robert Siegel. Stratten has been given credit for suggesting the dancers don the same white cuffs, collars and bowties worn by the "bunnies" at Playboy Clubs, most recently in the documentary TV series "Secrets of the Chippendales Murders." Snider was married to model Dorothy Stratten (Nicola Peltz Beckham), who later reigned as the 1980 Playboy Playmate of the Year. Promoter Paul Snider (Dan Stevens) stopped by Destiny II randomly after experiencing car trouble and began working with Banerjee as a promoter and Chippendales emcee. Banerjee recruited the muscular dancers who had to be 6-foot tall, have long hair and "no body hair, especially any that would show around a G-string," according to "Deadly Dance."ĭorothy Stratten's role in Chippendales explored ![]() The club featured a new sign in Old English script befitting its namesake, the 18th-century English master cabinet and furniture maker Thomas Chippendale. The club struggled, even with patron-luring schemes such as female mud wrestling, oyster-eating contests and disco dancing before Banerjee renamed it Chippendales and launched "Male Exotic Dance Night for Ladies Only" in 1978. "Like, it doesn't make sense, but it really does make sense." Steve wanted people to think that his first club was so successful he had to have a sequel to it," says Nanjiani. The name was the head-scratching "Destiny II." "Welcome to Chippendales" correctly shows Hugh Hefner-idolizing Banerjee putting his savings into what he hoped would be a high-end backgammon club in 1975. The shocking truths (and fiction) in early episodes:Ĭhippendales started as Destiny II backgammon club Scot Macdonald's 2014 book, "Deadly Dance: The Chippendales Murders." ![]() There's a lot of bad stuff here."īanerjee's rise, fall and clashes with his choreographer, Nick De Noia (Murray Bartlett, "The White Lotus") are based on K. "This series is about the fantasy versus the reality of the American dream, and what happens when those bump up against each other. "It's shocking and wild that one story has all this unpredictable, bonkers stuff," says Kumail Nanjiani, 43, who portrays Indian immigrant Somen "Steve" Banerjee, the buttoned-up founder of the male revue that spawned a 1980s cultural phenomenon. Hulu's "Welcome to Chippendales," an eight-part drama (first two episodes now streaming then weekly on Tuesdays) unveils toxic jealousy, arson and even murder unleashed by the culture-changing male revue renowned for those breakaway trousers. There are wild, even sinister surprises revealed once you rip off the cover story of the famed Chippendales dancers. ![]() Watch Video: 'Welcome to Chippendales' trailer: Story behind stripping empire ![]()
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