"Hairspray" has become the ultimate crowd-pleaser. The 1988 cult-classic film about hair hoppers and segregation in '60s Baltimore has spawned a Broadway musical, a big-budget movie musical and a live ...

"Hairspray" made Ricki Lake a star and spawned multiple adaptations, including Broadway and movie musicals. But that 1988 original is still the best by far, as sweet as it is subversive. The legendary ...

Nikki Blonsky and John Travolta play Tracy Turnblad and her mother, Edna, in the Broadway play-turned-movie ’Hairspray.’ The world probably didn’t need another film version of John Waters’ 1988 romp ...