Taylor Swift’s New Album Is a Masterpiece of Cringe

In last year’s sweetly devastating Las Vegas melodrama The Last Showgirl, Pamela Anderson’s middle-aged dancer Shelly is on an audition for the first time in decades. Her long-standing gig, the classic revue Le Razzle Dazzle, is shutting down. She allows that many people would consider her too old for this prospective new part (while still lying about her age). But it’s a huge theater, she jokes: “Distance helps!”