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...idea for the film series was born partially out of a course on the history of gay life that McCarthy is planning to teach in the spring. He plans to incorporate movies as entertaining as John Waters?? “Hairspray” (1988) and as serious as the Oscar-winning “Boys Don’t Cry” (1999, dir. Kimberly Pierce...
...history, though, is legendary—Passim is to folkies what CBGB is to punks. Joan Baez got her start there as a 17-year-old college student, and a young singer-songwriter named Bob Dylan used to play between acts. Bonnie Raitt hung out there, and Muddy Waters?? first performance at Passim was one of the entry points for Chicago Blues on the east coast. Contemporary folk stars Suzanne Vega and Shawn Colvin got there start there, too. Arlo Guthrie has played there a solid week each of the past two years...
...example of this interpretive tradition, he cited the decision of Talmudic scholar Johanan ben Zakkai to end the practice of requiring women accused of adultery to drink “bitter waters?? in order to determine their guilt because it did not apply in a contemporary social context...
Adapted from John Waters?? 1988 musical Hairspray, this larger-than-life play tells the story of Tracy Turnblad, a poor, ambitious teenager who lands a featured spot dancing on the Corny Collins Show, a hugely popular after school television program in the tradition of American Bandstand. Dancing on the show was every girl’s dream at the unpopular but good-hearted Tracy’s high school, and when she is unexpectedly awarded the honor after a dance contest, a veritable class war between her and Amber von Tussle, the quintessential wealthy bitch, erupts in their...
Adapted from John Waters?? 1988 musical Hairspray, this larger-than-life play tells the story of Tracy Turnblad, a poor, ambitious teenager who lands a featured spot dancing on the Corny Collins Show, a hugely popular after school television program in the tradition of American Bandstand. Dancing on the show was every girl’s dream at the unpopular but good-hearted Tracy’s high school, and when she is unexpectedly awarded the honor after a dance contest, a veritable class war between her and Amber von Tussle, the quintessential wealthy bitch, erupts in their...