Hairspray (1988 film) film version of "Hairspray", an adaptation of the stage musical, was also released by New Line Cinema in 2007, which included many changes of scripted items from the original. In Baltimore, Maryland in the year 1962, Tracy Turnblad and her best friend, Penny Pingleton, audition for "The Corny Collins Show", a popular Baltimore teenage dance show (based on the real-life "Buddy Deane Show"). Penny is too nervous and stumbles over her answers, and another girl, Nadine, is cut for being black (the show has a "Negro Day" on the last Thursday of every month, she is told). However, despite being
Dick Tracy (1990 film) with Dick Tracy, Jr. Hamilton Camp appears as a store owner and Bing Russell plays a Club Ritz patron. Robert Costanzo cameos as Lips Manlis' bodyguard. Allen Garfield, John Schuck, and Charles Fleischer make cameos as reporters. Walker Edmiston, John Moschitta, Jr., and Neil Ross provide the voices of each radio announcer. Mike Mazurki (who played Splitface in the original "Dick Tracy" film) appears in a small cameo, as Old Man at Hotel. 94-year-old veteran character actor Ian Wolfe plays his last film role as "Munger". Beatty had a concept for a "Dick Tracy" film in 1975. At the time,