The movie premiered on Jan. 20, 2006, when he was on shift at P.F. Chang’s. “It was playing on the bar top TVs,” he ...

Penny peers through a window in "Hairspray" (2007) - New Line Cinema Nowadays, it's hard to imagine the big-screen adaptation of "Hairspray," the bubbly Tony-winning musical that was in turn based on ...

"There was a long line of people to play Penny and New Line wanted Amanda," Shankman said. "And I was on the fence about it." The studio made a deal with Shankman. If he picked Bynes, executives would ...

Diane Ladd, the Oscar- and Emmy-nominated actress best known for memorable turns in Martin Scorsese’s Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, Roman Polanski’s Chinatown and David Lynch’s Wild at Heart, died ...

Amanda Bynes and Zac Efron nearly weren't welcomed to the '60s. Hairspray director Adam Shankman broke down the casting process for the movie musical on a recent episode of the And That's What You ...

Zac Efron didn't know it, but he had to rely on the popularity of Amanda Bynes in order to land his major role in this 2007 movie.