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) and Euro Disney Resort called "Dick Tracy's Crime Stoppers" was planned but ultimately never built. "Dick Tracy" premiered at the Walt Disney World resort's Pleasure Island in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, on June 14, 1990. The film was released in the United States in 2,332 theaters on June 15, 1990, earning $22.54 million in its in opening weekend. This was the third-highest opening weekend of 1990. "Dick Tracy" eventually grossed $103.74 million in US totals and $59 million elsewhere, coming to a worldwide total of $162.74 million. "Dick Tracy" was also the ninth-highest-grossing film of America in 1990, and number