Abel Ferrara has described Go Go Tales as "Cheers meets The Killing of a Chinese Bookie." Really it's closer to a remix of Altman's A Prairie Home Companion, with a foul-mouthed Sylvia Miles in the role of Tommy Lee Jones's intimidating Axeman, Grace Jones subbing for Dusty and Lefty on the soundtrack, and the Johnson women stripped down to their panties. Enter that force of nature known as Asia Argento, who takes the stage in one scene to perform a mercilessly brief striptease during which she swaps saliva with one of two rottweilers; the other one, played by Bob Hoskins, barks orders offstage, trying to keep patrons in their seats and their paws off the girls. Welcome to the seedy demimonde of the club Paradise, where Ferrara probes the dreams of lives less ordinary, including his own.