Ricki Lake weekdays. The series was canceled in 2013 after a single season, but Lake won her first Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Talk Show Host. Lake was born in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, to a secular Jewish family. Her parents are Jill (a homemaker) and Barry Lake (a pharmacist), but was largely brought up by her paternal grandmother, Sylvia Lake, until Sylvia's death in 1978. Lake attended Ithaca College for one year. Lake made her film debut as Tracy Turnblad, the lead character in John Waters's 1988 cult-classic "Hairspray". Lake also starred in other Waters films including "Cry-Baby" (with Johnny Depp and
Dick Tracy (1990 film) the film as part of her Blond Ambition World Tour. Prior to the June 1990 theatrical release, Disney had already featured "Dick Tracy" in musical theatre stage shows in both Disneyland and the Walt Disney World Resort, using Stephen Sondheim and Danny Elfman's music. "The New York Times" also wrote in June 1990 of Disney Stores "selling nothing but "Tracy"-related merchandise." Max Allan Collins lobbied to write the film's novelization long before Disney had even greenlighted "Dick Tracy" in 1988. "I hated the idea that anyone else would write a "Tracy" novel," Collins explained. After much conflict with Disney, leading