TY  - ADVS
AU  - John Waters
AU  - Bono,Sonny
AU  - Ruth Brown
AU  - Josh Charles
AU  - Divine
AU  - Jason Downs
TI  - Hairspray
SN  - B00006RZ9Y
AV  - DVD 005268 
PY  - 1988///
PB  - New Line Home Video
KW  - Comedy
N1  - John Waters made his bid for PG respectability with this enjoyably trashy comedy about the racial integration of a teen dance show on Baltimore television in the early '60s. Waters, as always, makes a virtue of junk culture and the powerful emotional forces it can represent as kids vie to get on the show. Meanwhile, a parade of former stars (Pia Zadora, Debbie Harry, Sonny Bono) and pseudostars (Divine, Ricki Lake) cross the screen, playing freakish characters absorbed by thoughts of fame. (Waters himself turns up as a weirdo psychiatrist.) This transitional film for Waters is rough going at times and not as interesting or funny as his later features
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