This despite the scheming, racist show producer, ex-beauty queen Velma Van Tussle (Michelle Pfeiffer), who is plotting to manipulate her white-toast daughter, Amber (Brittany Snow), into the coveted title Miss Teenage Hairspray. Hairspray is the two-tiered 1962 story of how greatly overweight Baltimore teen Tracy Turnblad captures not only a spot on the popular Corny Collins TV show, but also the love of heartthrob Link Larkin, the lead singer on the show. By aiming for greater realism and less controversy, it ends up solidly mediocre.
The New Line sellout strives to make the grotesque and campy palatable to the great unwashed-or, rather, the great washed. And now the Hollywood feature adaptation further waters down Waters.
This was partly defused, but also grandly gussied-up, by the Broadway musical version, opening in August 2002 and still running. In the beginning (1988) was John Waters' low-budget, provocateurish cult movie Hairspray.
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