Blaze

“A governor. A stripper. Forced to chose between the office he held and the woman he loved, he chose both.”

Earl K. Long (Paul Newman) is the governor of Louisiana, middle-aged and loud, a man whose radical policies have made him as many enemies as friends. Then he falls for Blaze Starr (Lolita Davidovich), a young stripper, and that attachment puts his political career at risk. Ron Shelton plays it as a love story between two people, the governor and the dancer, in the same frame.