The original '' Hairspray , '' the 1988 movie , was conceived of and directed by John Waters , a Baltimore filmmaker whose body of work -- a weave of bestiality , strippers , sexual assault and hard-luck cases -- seems particularly calibrated to offend mainstream sensibilities .
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