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No one celebrity is so closely tied to Baltimore as filmmaker John Waters. Dubbed the "Pope of Trash" by William Burroughs, Waters has brought his eccentric and anti-establishment vision of his hometown to the screen starting with his high school film "Hag in a Black Leather Jacket." Cult, X-rated classics such as "Pink Flamingos" and "Female Trouble" followed, but it was "Hairspray" that brought Waters mainstream attention. "Hairspray" explores 1960s racial segregation through the eyes of a chubby teen-age girl who wants to star on a local dance show. Tracy Turnblad, played by Ricki Lake in the original 1988 film, gets the show -- and the guy -- and champions racial issues with the help of...
No one celebrity is so closely tied to Baltimore as filmmaker John Waters. Dubbed the "Pope of Trash" by William Burroughs, Waters has brought his eccentric and anti-establishment vision of his hometown to the screen starting with his high school film "Hag in a Black Leather Jacket." Cult, X-rated classics such as "Pink Flamingos" and "Female Trouble" followed, but it was "Hairspray" that brought Waters mainstream attention. "Hairspray" explores 1960s racial segregation through the eyes of a chubby teen-age girl who wants to star on a local dance show. Tracy Turnblad, played by Ricki Lake in the original 1988 film, gets the show -- and the guy -- and champions racial issues with the help of her over-protective mother, Edna, played in drag by Waters' friend and frequent star Divine. In 2002, the film was made into a hit Broadway musical starring Harvey Fierstein as Edna, and in 2007, the musical was adapted into another film starring John Travolta, Nikki Blonsky and Zac Efron. Waters' 1990 movie musical "Cry-Baby" may follow in "Hairspray's" footsteps. The musical adaptation opened in California in November 2007 before heading to Broadway in spring 2008. Set in the 1950s, the film starred Johnny Depp as a juvenile delinquent who falls for a good girl ("square"). In addition to being a filmmaker, Waters is a photographer who exhibits at galleries nationwide.
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Maryland Film Festival fundraiser
Special to The Baltimore SunThe party had all the makings of a Hollywood A-list affair: a red carpet with reporters and photographers corralled behind velvet ropes, famous directors and lots of local glitterati. However, this event was in Baltimore. And all about Baltimore....Tags: David Simon, Cinema Industry, Barry Levinson, Maryland Film Festival, Film Festivals
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Recent book beckons to Hutzler's fans
It's hard to believe that Hutzler's, the legendary Howard Street department store that provided goods and memorable services to Baltimoreans for 132 years, rang up its final sales two decades ago. Just a decade earlier, according to Robert Hendrickson,...Tags: Clothing and Textiles Industry, Sales, Fells Point, White Marsh, Allentown
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Competitors no match for 'South Pacific's' visual sweep
Tribune criticThe harmonic Seabees warbling "There is Nothing Like a Dame" at the start of Bart Sher's Lincoln Center revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "South Pacific" include whites and African-Americans. Nothing unusual there. It took decades, but Broadway has...Tags: Gore Vidal, Mel Brooks, Paddy Chayefsky, Music Theater, Broadway Theatre
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The Collaborators: The force behind Baltimore's top filmmakers
Casting director Pat Moran, a co-founder of John Waters' Dreamland Films, helped create the human tapestries that give Waters' midnight specials their Fellini-like ebullience. But she has also done her part to imbue such Barry Levinson memory plays as...Tags: HBO, Marlon Brando, Mickey Rourke, Catonsville, Film Festivals
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Benefit unites city native sons
John Waters, Barry Levinson and David Simon aren't just appearing on stage for the first time together for the Maryland Film Festival benefit on Nov. 14. They're also throwing their support behind the event in advance.
"I think we'll be good!" says...Tags: George C. Scott, Cinema Industry, Celebrity Mothers, Martin Scorsese, HBO
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TiVo Top 25
TiVo Top 25 WishList Director rankings, for the week ending Oct. 30. (TiVo's WishList feature allows subscribers to record all films by a specific director.) 1. Alfred Hitchcock 2. Steven Spielberg 3. Martin Scorsese 4. Woody Allen 5. Quentin Tarantino 6....Tags: Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, Pedro Almodovar, Alfred Hitchcock, Stanley Kubrick
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Noir offerings color AFI screen
"The Big Combo by Philip Yordan" – that's the title credit to this amusingly pulpy 1955 crime movie, playing at the AFI Silver on Saturday at 7:15 p.m. and Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. The reputation of the director, Joseph H. Lewis, has ballooned because...Tags: Cinema Industry, Journalism, Kirk Douglas, Drama (genre), Film Festivals
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Who needs Hollywood?
If moviemaking won't come to Baltimore, Charm City's own budding moviemakers will make it happen, using all the means at their disposal - digital technology, eloquent locations and craft friendships developed in the years when this city had an amazing 2...Tags: Journalism, Pat Benatar, District 9 (movie), Harbor East, Charles Village
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Jeffrey Scott Roberts
Jeffrey Scott Roberts, a local actor who worked on "The Wire" and appeared in numerous local theatrical productions, died Monday of cancer at Gilchrist Hospice Care.
A resident of the Murray Hill section of Baltimore County, he was 46.
Mr. Roberts was...Tags: Screen Actors Guild, Eugene O'Neill, Dominic West, Anglican, Alan Rickman
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For the hibernating male
The fall Maryland Home, Garden & Living Show is traditionally about getting the home and garden ready for winter, the season of hibernation.
How perfect, then, to feature "man caves" - comfy, cozy spaces designed with the hibernating male in mind.
Three...Tags: Cinema Industry, Landforms, Andy Warhol, Caves and Caverns, Edgar Allan Poe
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Maryland Public Television celebrates 40th anniversary
Special to The Baltimore SunAs guests arrived at tents set up outside Maryland Public Television's Owings Mills headquarters, they were greeted by a group of "paparazzi," yelling questions and clicking cameras. If the press corps had been real, it wouldn't have been a surprise. In...Tags: National Government, Government, Hospitals and Clinics, Judaism
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Bright Has Another Idea - eSolutions Consulting to Leverage Development Expertise
Edmunds.comIt hasn't started building its own yet, but start-up electric delivery van maker Bright Automotive has started a consulting business offering services to other automakers interested in electric powertrains, lightweight materials techniques and general...
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