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Dream On.(Hairspray; Ratatouille)(Movie review)
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The movie version of the hit Broadway musical "Hairspray" is perfectly pleasant--I smiled to myself all the way through it--but it's not as exhilarating as the show. For a subject like this--old dance crazes and pop styles--what matters is not so much the actual past but how we feel about it, and onstage David Rockwell's sets and William Ivey Long's costumes distilled our nostalgia for the candied years between Elvis's early work and the arrival of the Beatles. Set in 1962, "Hairspray," whose first incarnation was John Waters's deadpan camp movie from 1988, celebrates a time when teen-agers, as a distinct consumer group with ...
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