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WHAT A DRAG
Hell hath no fury like a big drag queen scorned: The folks behind Broadway's Hairspray are apparently up in arms over news that John Travolta is in talks to play gender-bending Baltimore housewife Edna Turnblad in the upcoming movie version — and not the role's originator, Harvey Fierstein. "All the creators of Hairspray very strongly wanted Harvey for the movie," Tom Meehan, the show's cowriter, tells the New York Post. "This is a decision New Line made; they can do what they want."
Hell hath no fury like a big drag queen scorned: The folks behind Broadway's Hairspray are apparently up in arms over news that John Travolta is in talks to play gender-bending Baltimore housewife Edna Turnblad in the upcoming movie version — and not the role's originator, Harvey Fierstein. "All the creators of Hairspray very strongly wanted Harvey for the movie," Tom Meehan, the show's cowriter, tells the New York Post. "This is a decision New Line made; they can do what they want."