Let me first say that Hairspray the Musical is the worst bastardization of a movie I’ve ever seen ever. Way to totally sanitize all the Dreamland out of it, and I’m still pissed at John Waters for letting them do that to my favorite of his movies. But still. The fact that the people in the comments can’t figure out why this is so wrong is mind-boggling.
Houston is what you might get if you took everything that is really, really great and slightly irritating and crazy in a good way about the South and about America and threw it in one of those rock-polishing tumblers for a spin or two before dumping it all out and leaving everything where it lay.” [Garden & Gun]