Diablo Cody: Big Breasts, Bigger Dreams

hen Diablo Cody (née Brooke Busey), former stripper and phone sex operator, took home the Oscar for best original screenplay for Juno, all of our preconceived notions about exotic dancers blew up like Ellen Page's stomach.

Could more exotic dancers, so willing to shake it for your dub, actually be using that money to finance artistic pursuits? Perhaps, through the haze of cigar smoke and beneath the layers of makeup, clubs are full of dreamers with well-developed left brains.

To investigate, Radar infiltrated some of New York's most popular strip clubs and found out what artistic aspirations strippers pursue when the lights go up and the clothes are back on.
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