[Answer] Who directed the original "Hairspray" (1988) starring Ricki Lake?

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...1. John Waters 2. John Carpenter 3. Amy Heckerling 4. Brian De Palma

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John Waters - “Hairspray” (1988) is one of the most well-known movies to have been adapted into a Broadway musical (in 2002) and then have that stage production be made into a new musical film (2007). But John Waters is the man that first got “The Corny Collins Show” rolling, as he directed and wrote the original comedy starring Ricki Lake, Divine, Debbie Harry, and Jerry Stiller. At New York’s IFC Center in 2018 during an event celebrating the film’s release 30 years prior at the very same theater (albeit under a different name, The Waverly Theater), Waters shared that the movie’s lead character, Tracy Turnblad, is based on his own adolescence in Baltimore. “I was Tracy,” said Waters, according to “IndieWire.” “We hung around with black and whites together, which you couldn’t do. The black cops would stop us and say ‘This isn’t Greenwich Village, you know. You’re in Baltimore. You can’t do this.’ I remember once we all got arrested at the drive-in for underage drinking, and the black kids didn’t get out and the white kids did. The white kids’ parents came and got them. That really hit home then.”:

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