First photo of John Travolta as Edna in the movie version of "Hairspray"

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This role has always been played by a man, but John Travolta. Ohmigod!

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Isn’t Hairspray a movie already?

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[QUOTE=adam yax]
Isn’t Hairspray a movie already?
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It was originally. This is a movie of the Broadway musical.

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It’s not working for me. I realize this is a candid shot, but he isn’t nearly impressive enough. His Edna doesn’t look campy, just shlumpy (if that’s a word). Besides, shouldn’t that be a blonde wig?

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Nobody … NOBODY should play Edna Turnblad except for Harvey Fierstein.

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Or Divine.

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[QUOTE=Cervaise]
Or Divine.
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He’s dead, Jim.

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[QUOTE=Eutychus]
He’s dead, Jim.
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Yes. The point being (speaking for Cervaise here, who I assume will correct me if I misinterpret his meaning) that you could just as easily say the same thing about Divine’s performance; that the ground Fierstein trod was at least as sacred as the ground Travolta treads.

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[QUOTE=Annie-Xmas]
It was originally. This is a movie of the Broadway musical.
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What, you’ve never seen a movie based on a musical based on a movie before? As far as I know, there has been a grand total of one so far- The Producers.

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[QUOTE=xnylder]
His Edna doesn’t look campy, just shlumpy (if that’s a word).
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Edna is schlumpy for about the first half of the first act.

Divine started out in the film as a brunette, and Fierstein on Broadway was a redhead.

That said, while I suppose Travolta will do an OK job in the part and while I suppose the participation of a star of his magnitude was required to get the financing I really wish the producers would’ve done the right thing and cast Harvey.

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[QUOTE=mobo85]
What, you’ve never seen a movie based on a musical based on a movie before? As far as I know, there has been a grand total of one so far- The Producers.
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You forgot Little Shop of Horrors.

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[QUOTE=Otto]
You forgot Little Shop of Horrors.
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And Phantom of the Opera, sort of. (It depends on whether you think the musical draws on the movie, or just on the novel.)

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[QUOTE=Otto]
You forgot Little Shop of Horrors.
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Little Shop was a non-musical movie first, then an off-broadway musical, then a musical movie and then a Broadway musical. Next it will be a straight horror film again.

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[QUOTE=Zebra]
Little Shop was a non-musical movie first, then an off-broadway musical, then a musical movie and then a Broadway musical.
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Um, yeah, so it was a movie based on a musical based on a movie.

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[QUOTE=lissener]
the ground Fierstein trod was at least as sacred as the ground Travolta treads
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:: touches finger to nose ::