Craig Zadan on stage, featured prominently in Zadan's televised version. Chita Rivera appears in "Chicago" as "Nickie"; she played "Velma Kelly" in the original 1975 production. The film adaptation of "Hairspray" featured John Waters (writer/director) as "the flasher who lives next door;" Jerry Stiller ("Wilbur Turnblad") as "Mr. Pinky;" and Ricki Lake ("Tracy") as a reporter. On the soundtrack, Lake joins Nikki Blonsky and Marissa Jaret Winokur ("Tracy" from the Broadway production) to sing "Mama I'm a Big Girl Now" over the closing credits, and Harvey Fierstein (Broadway's "Edna") can be heard briefly soon after. Mink Stole ("Tammy" in the original film)
Ricki Seidman operative with a history of smearing conservative judges doesn't exactly mitigate that." She appeared in the 1993 documentary film about the 1992 Clinton campaign for President, "The War Room", and the 2008 film "The Return of the War Room" documenting Barack Obama's presidential campaign. She was played by Grace Gummer in the HBO film "Confirmation", depicting her role as adviser to Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas Supreme Court nomination. Ricki Seidman Ricki L. Seidman (born August 24, 1955) is a Democratic former government official, activist, and political adviser who was involved in the Supreme Court confirmation hearings of Robert