{"id":427,"date":"2007-07-17T19:15:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-17T19:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2007\/07\/17\/hairspray-back-story\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:49:54","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:49:54","slug":"hairspray-back-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2007\/07\/17\/hairspray-back-story\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hairspray back story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lh3.google.com\/dave.traynor\/Rp0U2hcLipI\/AAAAAAAAAHI\/kdPldmJgrVk\/hs.jpg?resize=252%2C200\" border=\"0\" height=\"200\" width=\"252\" alt=\"hs.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/>Hairspray, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hairspray_%282007_film%29\">movie<\/a> based on the Broadway <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hairspray_%28musical%29\">musical<\/a> that was based on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hairspray_%281988_film%29\">John Waters<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hairspray_%281988_film%29\">cult film<\/a>, opens this week and it looks like it&#8217;s going to be a lot of fun to watch, if the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/trailers\/newline\/hairspray\/\">trailer<\/a> is anything to go by.<\/p>\n<p>But as with so many films based on the sixties, there&#8217;s an interesting back story that revolves around racial issues that the film doesn&#8217;t talk about.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediachannel.org\/\">MediaChannel.org<\/a> has an article called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediachannel.org\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/17\/hairsprays-revolting-history\/\">Hairspray&#8217;s Revolting History<\/a> that is worth reading if you&#8217;re planning to see the show. Heck, even if you aren&#8217;t, it&#8217;s worth reading. But if you take a look at the trailer, I suspect you&#8217;re going to want to see the show yourself.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the intro to the article:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>The Hollywood version of Hairspray opens this week as a big screen and big star version of John Waters original film celebrating 1960\u2019s youth culture. Yet there is a \u201cback story\u201d that Hollywood ignores and News Dissector Danny Schechter remembers as recounted by Polar Levine.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediachannel.org\/wordpress\/2007\/07\/17\/hairsprays-revolting-history\/\">Here&#8217;s the link to the whole article.<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hairspray, the movie based on the Broadway musical that was based on John Waters&#8216; cult film, opens this week and it looks like it&#8217;s going to be a lot of fun to watch, if the trailer is anything to go by. 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