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...PRESENT LIFE IN THE KEY OF ME ME ME In Hairspray, Blonsky and Travolta, who is in drag here as Edna Turnblad in the role Harvey Fierstein played on stage, are sassy mother-daughter spokes-models for plus-size empowerment. "You have to find a theme that contemporary audiences relate to," says Neil Meron, producer of Hairspray and the 2002 film Chicago. "Hairspray is about body image, racial tolerance, what constitutes a family." Think Oprah's Live Your Best Life tour, with a beat and bigger hair...
...recent industry confab gave clips of the movie-musical Hairspray a standing ovation. John Travolta, who reprises the drag role of Edna Turnblad created by Divine in the original '88 John Waters comedy, told EW.com's POPWATCH, "I was hoping to [come across] as a woman, not as a man doing a woman." You go, girl. SCORE...
Like the play it helped spawn, the '60s snapshot is remarkable for its ordinariness. Against a sand dune the young family sit: mother in straw hat and Dame Edna glasses; a bronzed, bare-chested father holding his knee; their son dressed in a tropical shirt squinting at the sun. The latter is Michael Gow aged 6, holidaying near Ulladulla on the New South Wales south coast, though that's about all the Australian playwright can remember. "In my memory, Christmas holidays went from about 1959 to 1970," recalls Gow, 51. "There's just this kind of weird dream...
...imagine the story transplanted to modern L.A. But no one could replace the whip-smart original cast, which features Katherine Hepburn, Ginger Rodgers and a young Lucille Ball. The wit comes fast and loaded, as do all movies based on plays by legendary Broadway writers George Kaufman and Edna Farber. It traces the influence of theatrical wannabe Terry Randall (Hepburn) on the struggling actresses. But the main fun is watching the women bicker and bond with their claws out, hiding nothing; the men are basically plot devices. On first glance, “Stage Door” seems sort...
...rest. According to a notice on the window of the manager’s office, rents at Charlesview range from $1,165-$1,494 a month. But if tenants are in exceptionally dire financial straits, the owners are accommodating, occasionally charging nothing—as happened the year Edna Archer lost her job.Archer, 42, came to the United States from Guatemala 20 years ago, following her mother to Massachusetts in search of work. Now employed by a medical company in Bedford, Mass., the single mother moved from nearby Everett Street to Charlesview three years ago with her two children, aged...