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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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

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.