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...close with another guy recently. In his new movie, Hairspray, based on the 1988 John Waters comedy and the 2002-Tony-winning musical, he does a funny-passionate dance with Christopher Walken. And Walken leads. Travolta, walking in the pumps of Divine in the earlier film and Harvey Fierstein on Broadway, plays Edna Turnblad, the beyond-zaftig Baltimore mom of a '60s teenage girl who dreams of appearing on a local TV dance show. (Walken is Edna's incorrigibly besotted husband...
...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...
...have chosen if I were Playboy?s humor editor. (In which case, I?d have dropped the designation of ?humor? heading each piece; making readers guess if a story was supposed to be funny was part of the fun.) Into the 80s, Playboy kept finding smart comic writing. Bruce Fierstein?s ?Real Men Don?t Eat Quiche? appeared there first...
...bold and amusing challenge, however, met a fiery rebuff. After public condemnation from Macy’s, Fierstein was hastily moved to his own float, separate from a presumably heterosexual Santa. He was alienated and, left without much public support, issued a feeble apology...
...only win this battle if they force the issue into the American consciousness and conscience. Just as blacks did not win their rights by moving to the back of the bus, gays cannot hope to secure their rights by settling for civil unions or by letting activists like Harvey Fierstein be bullied out of the spotlight. By taking control of the debate on gay rights, the same-sex marriage movement may win support in the short term and will enable empower future generations to raise more open-minded youths...