mine were the van tussle family of fitzpatrick, bono and debbie harry they were so funny acting together... fitzpatricck played a little witcch so well
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"Without obsession, life is nothing." -John Waters
Link, Tracy, Penny, Seaweed, Little Inz, Motormouth, Tracy's Mom and Dad, Corny and Tammy
shareThe Beatniks (Ric Ocasek and Pia Zadora).
sharePenny's parents, Mr & Mrs Pingleton;
the purse-weilding abusive mother in the principal's office ("happy now?" SWAT!!);
Edna Turnblad;
the mean teacher in Special Ed;
the mean teacher who sends Tracy to the principal's office because of her hair;
the principal who sends her to special ed because of her hair;
the beatniks;
Dr Fredericks (black boys? ZAP! NEGROES?!?!?)
Waters is great at sticking little side characters while the main ones take a breath or two.
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.
I'd never seen Debbie Harry do comedy before. And I didn't recognise Bono. I had to check the ending credits to see if it was really him who playing Mr Van Tussle. They were good together. And Debbie's first hairstyle in the film was a riot. I think that the teacher who said that Tracy's hair was 'hair-don't' should have seen that.
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