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
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