For the second year in a row, one of John Waters’ Baltimore-centric movies has been added to the prestigious National Film Registry of the U. S. Library of Congress.
Last year it was “Pink Flamingos,” named just before the 50th anniversary of its release in March of 1972, the first film by Waters to make the list.
This year it’s the original version of “Hairspray,” Waters’ story of a plus-sized Baltimore teenager and her friends who integrate a local TV dance show in 1962.
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