![]() The Corny Collins show is segregated with a prescribed Negro Day once a month. All this is against the background of the civil rights era and Baltimore had its problems also. But it's a cause for celebration for Tracy's parents played by Divine and Jerry Stiller and her best friend Leslie Ann Powers. Tracy doesn't hope, she lives the dream and actually gets picked to dance and be a regular to the distress of plastic teen princess Colleen Fitzpatrick. The regulars who dance there have a celebrity status, but something a fat girl dare not hope to dream. Her biggest desire growing up in Baltimore of the Early Sixties is to get on the local teen hop show hosted by Corny Collins. Such a person is Tracy Turnblad played by later television host Rikki Lake who's a full figured gal in every sense of the word. Sometimes our heroes and heroines for civil rights and human decency can be found where you least expect. ![]() Hairspray both this version and the new 2007 one are a pair of great satirical films about teenage mores in the early Sixties of the Civil Rights Era.
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