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Thursday Jul 2 | Crossville Chronicle

Playhouse Review: "Hairspray"

This is a multigenerational review: I am grateful for the assistance of my 12-year-old grandson and his aunt, my daughter, in commenting on Hairspray.

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Related Topix: Hairspray, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Music!, Musical Movies, Arts, Dance, Theater

Tue Jun 30, 2009

Times Online

Leviathan, by Philip Hoare, wins A 20,000 Samuel Johnson Prize

An author who has been obsessed by whales since childhood was rewarded for his fascination last night when his book about them won the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize.

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Related Topix: Hairspray, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Music!, Musical Movies

Mon Jun 29, 2009

New York Post

How Johnny Depp Became Eternally Cool

Nobody," John Waters once said, "is sick of Johnny Depp." It's as true today as it was when Waters directed Depp in 1990's "Cry Baby," the film that diminished his hated TV teen-idol status with the help of Iggy Pop and Ricki Lake.

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Related Topix: Public Enemies, Comedy Movies, Cry-Baby, Musical Movies, Entertainment, Drama, 21 Jump Street, Television, Johnny Depp, Iggy Pop, Movies

Filmexperience.blogspot.com

Take a Vow of Celibacy for Celluloid

I had totally forgotten about this roll call moment from John Waters' Cecil B Demented and I lurve it.

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Related Topix: Comedy Movies, Cecil B. DeMented, Crime Movies, Horror Movies, Serial Mom, Melanie Griffith, Kathleen Turner

Tue Jun 16, 2009

San Francisco Chronicle

Datebook:

HOROSCOPE Q+A/MAILBAG MINERVA STARCAST Once again it's June, moon, honeymoon season.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Theater, Arts, Dance, San Francisco, CA, Events

Sun Jun 14, 2009

The Baltimore Sun

His movies bring to life those living on the edge

Steve Yeager appears caught off-guard when asked if he set out to earn a reputation as a filmmaker focusing on Baltimore's marginalized.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Horror Movies, Comedy Movies, Pink Flamingos, Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Metro, Divine, Street, MD, Entertainment

Fri Jun 12, 2009

SF Gate

LGBT Profiles: Filmmakers

John Waters , 63, film director. In his 40 years since his feature film debut , John Waters has seen his camp sensibility become part of the American pop culture mainstream.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Hairspray, Horror Movies, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Pink Flamingos, Music!, Musical Movies

Wed Jun 10, 2009

City Paper

Read Theater Projects in Stage

There was an unintended logic to the choice of John Waters as the keynote speaker for the Theatre Communications Group 2009 national conference, held in Baltimore this past weekend.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Baltimore, MD, Baltimore Metro, Crime Movies, Horror Movies, Comedy Movies, Pink Flamingos, Divine

Tue Jun 09, 2009

BellaOnline

HonFest in Baltimore, Maryland

Fans of Baltimore filmmaker John Waters and his legendary production of Hairspray surely all too well what a 'Hon' is.

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Related Topix: Baltimore Metro, Hairspray, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Music!, Musical Movies

Fri Jun 05, 2009

Marshall Democrat-News

Lyceum review: 'Hairspray' opens summer season with retro Broadway hit

The Lyceum Theater in Arrow Rock began its 49th season Wednesday, June 3, with the Broadway musical "Hairspray." This Tony-award winning musical is based on the 1988 John Waters film of the same name and has since been adapted into a movie starring John Travolta and Zac Efron, among others.

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Related Topix: Hairspray, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Music!, Musical Movies, Arrow Rock, MO, John Travolta

Fri May 29, 2009

Washington Blade

Taking on Tallulah

Valerie Harper discusses her role as Tallulah Bankhead during an afternoon chat at the Fairmont Hotel in Georgetown last week.

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Related Topix: Valerie Harper, Tallulah Bankhead, Comedy, Gay/Lesbian, West Palm Beach Metro

Tue May 26, 2009

San Diego Reader

Pink Flamingos

John Waters's made-in-Baltimore cult piece about the battle for the title of Filthiest Person Alive.

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Related Topix: Crime Movies, Horror Movies, Comedy Movies, Pink Flamingos, Divine, Movies, Entertainment

Thu May 21, 2009

KSWB-TV San Diego

Back to abnormal

Think of John Waters as a racy Wizard of Oz. Generations of American storytellers have chronicled provincial misfits and artists leaving their homes and finding their true colors in Los Angeles, New York or San Francisco.

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Related Topix: A Dirty Shame, Comedy Movies, Hairspray, Drama Movies, Music!, Musical Movies, Crime Movies, Female Trouble, Baltimore, MD, Selma Blair

Mon May 18, 2009

The Victoria Star

Screen Shots

Johnny Depp has spent the last decade either dominating each year's summer box office, or teasing us with the possibility of yet another Oscar-nominated role when fall comes around.

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Related Topix: Public Enemies, Entertainment, Drama, 21 Jump Street, Television, Johnny Depp, Criminal Defense Law, Law

Fri May 08, 2009

WMAR

Inspiration at the Maryland Film Festival

Hollywood honored Hairspray with a remake. It was the film that captured audiences and brought a bit of 'Baltimore hon' to homes across the Country.

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Related Topix: Hairspray, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Music!, Musical Movies, Baltimore, MD, Crime Movies, Horror Movies, Pink Flamingos, Harford County, MD

Thu May 07, 2009

OC Weekly

[Special Screenings] Q Film Festival, 'Fight Club,' 'Princess Mononoke,' More

Q Film Festival The fourth-annual event tied to the Center Long Beach's Pride Day Weekend features lavish parties; workshops; the screening of 10 new films; and bonus viewings of the 1981 picture that demonized wire hangers, two John Waters' trashterpieces on back-to-back midnights and a raw, funny and, at times, painful documentary about the ...

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Related Topix: Female Trouble, Horror Movies, Comedy Movies, Pink Flamingos, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Biography Movies, Mommie Dearest, Faye Dunaway, Movies, Entertainment

Wed May 06, 2009

JauntSetter

Baltimore: A Charming (+ Boho Friendly) Hideaway

As John Waters once said: "I would never want to live anywhere but Baltimore. You can look far and wide, but you'll never discover a stranger city with such extreme style.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Pecker, Comedy Movies, US Travel, Travel

Mon May 04, 2009

411mania.com

Misunderstood Masterpieces 5.05.09: A Dirty Shame

Misunderstood Masterpieces 5.05.09: A Dirty Shame Posted by Will Helm on 05.05.2009 ...or, Because 'Invasion of the Pussy Snatchers' Just Sounded Redundant Though violence has been a pervasive and accepted element in film for more than a few years, the mere mention of graphic sexual content - no matter the context - often puts the Motion Picture ...

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Related Topix: A Dirty Shame, Comedy Movies, Hairspray, Horror Movies, Serial Mom, Pink Flamingos, Music!, Crime Movies, Drama Movies, Musical Movies, Baltimore, MD, Movies, Entertainment

Fri May 01, 2009

The Modesto Bee

Hairspray musical has plenty of extra-hold staying power

You can't stop the beat and you can't stop the smash-hit musical "Hairspray." Seven years after the show opened on Broadway and two years after a John Travolta film version hit the silver screen, the stage production still is drawing big audiences around the country.

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Related Topix: Hairspray, Drama Movies, Comedy Movies, Music!, Musical Movies, John Travolta

Wed Apr 29, 2009

Miami New Times

John Waters

In 1972, not long after getting kicked out of New York University for smoking marijuana, John Waters released Pink Flamingos , a film he'd shot for $10,000 on the weekends with a group of friends.

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Related Topix: Horror Movies, Comedy Movies, Pink Flamingos, Crime Movies, Arts, Cinema, New York University, Drugs, Movies, Entertainment

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