For the past nine months, Las Vegas showgirls have experienced a cultural resurgence. There was The Last Showgirl movie, filmed in Las Vegas, released last fall. And the title of the next Taylor Swift album is The Life of a Showgirl, whose theme is based on her experience as an entertainer on tour. So, author Diane Christiansen was a showgirl for Lido de Paris at the Stardust. She also performed internationally. And she sets the record straight in her 2025 autobiography, The Last Real Showgirl, which she says she wrote and titled long before last year’s The Last Showgirl film. In the book, Christiansen gets into what it was like to be in those 1970s shows — a decidedly different time culturally and socially than now. She also addresses why those shows thrived then and have since declined. And it also tackles a topic I have seen come up repeatedly: The difference between a real showgirl and those who merely wear the costume. I’ll just say, the newer, less authentic ones are far more chaste than those of the golden showgirl era were. Folks can meet Diane and hear her story at the Barnes and Noble in Henderson on Saturday, Sept. 6.