Someone Else's Movie

Jude Klassen on John Waters' Hairspray

Episode Summary

Actor and filmmaker Jude Klassen, whose new film Stupid for You hits VOD today, is here to celebrate John Waters' 1988 breakthrough Hairspray, another picture about teenage exuberance and grown-up confusion. Your genial host Norm Wilner just wants a chance to do The Roach.

Episode Notes

Actor and filmmaker Jude Klassen, whose new film Stupid for You -- about a teenager who decides to reunite her mother's old punk band to impress a girl -- hits VOD today, is here to celebrate John Waters' 1988 breakthrough Hairspray, the movie about Ricki Lake and Divine accidentally enabling a civil-rights revolution in 1962 Baltimore ... and pissing off Sonny Bono and Debbie Harry in the process. It's a movie about teenage exuberance in the face of grown-up confusion, and also about seeing what Josh Charles looked like as a kid. Your genial host Norm Wilner is just happy for the chance to do The Roach.