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 +'''''Cry-Baby''''' is a 1990 American [[Teen film|teen]] [[musical film]] written and directed by [[John Waters (filmmaker)|John Waters]]. It stars [[Johnny Depp]] as 1950s teen rebel "Cry-Baby" Wade Walker, and also features a large [[ensemble cast]] that includes [[Amy Locane]], [[Iggy Pop]], [[Traci Lords]], [[Ricki Lake]], [[Kim McGuire]], [[David Nelson (actor)|David Nelson]], [[Susan Tyrrell]], and [[Patty Hearst]]. The film did not achieve high audience numbers in its initial release, but has subsequently become a [[Cult film|cult classic]] and spawned a [[Broadway theatre|Broadway]] [[Cry-Baby (musical)|musical of the same name]] which was nominated for four [[Tony Award]]s.
-:''[[2012]], [[notable deaths]]''+The film is a [[parody]] of teen musicals (particularly ''[[Grease (film)|Grease]]'') and centers on a group of [[Juvenile delinquency|delinquents]] that refer to themselves as "drapes" and their interaction with the rest of the town and its other subculture, the "squares", in 1950s [[Baltimore, Maryland]]. "Cry-Baby" Walker, a drape, and Allison, a square, create upheaval and turmoil in their little town of [[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]] by breaking the subculture taboos and falling in love. The film shows what the young couple have to overcome to be together and how their actions affect the rest of the town.
-* [[Susan Tyrrell]], 67, American actress (''[[Cry-Baby]], [[Fat City (film)|Fat City]], [[Forbidden Zone]]'').+
-* [[Horacio Coppola]], 105, Argentine photographer and filmmaker.+
-* [[Rodney King]], 47, American victim of 1991 [[police brutality]] incident.+
-*[[Ann Rutherford]], 94, Canadian-born American actress (''[[Gone with the Wind]], [[The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (film)|The Secret Life of Walter Mitty]]'').+
-*[[Georges Mathieu]], 91, French artist. +
-* [[J. Michael Riva]], 63, American production designer (''[[The Color Purple (film)|The Color Purple]]'', ''[[Django Unchained]]'', ''[[Iron Man (film)|Iron Man]]''), stroke. +
-* [[Bob Welch (musician)|Bob Welch]], 66, American musician ([[Fleetwood Mac]], [[Paris (band)|Paris]]) and songwriter ("[[Sentimental Lady]]"), suicide by gunshot. +
-* [[Ray Bradbury]], 91, American science fiction and fantasy author (''[[Fahrenheit 451]], [[The Martian Chronicles]]'').+
-* [[Herb Reed]], 83, American singer ([[The Platters]]).+
-* [[Frazier Mohawk]], 71, American record producer ([[Buffalo Springfield]], [[The Byrds]]), after long illness. +
-*[[Matthew Yuricich]], 89, American special effects artist (''[[Field of Dreams]]'', ''[[Close Encounters of the Third Kind]]'', ''[[Blade Runner]]''). +
-*[[Leo Dillon]], 79, American artist, complications of surgery.+
-* [[Faruq Z. Bey]], 70, American jazz saxophonist, emphysema. +
-* [[Kaneto Shindo]], 100, Japanese film director, senility. +
-*[[Jacqueline Harpman]], 82, Belgian writer.+
-* [[Otis Clark]], 109, American survivor of the [[Tulsa race riot]] (1921), butler of [[Clark Gable]] and [[Charlie Chaplin]], natural causes.+
-* [[Eddie Blazonczyk]], 70, American musician, natural causes.+
-*[[Robin Gibb]], 62, British singer and songwriter ([[Bee Gees]]), colon and liver cancer. +
-* [[Donna Summer]], 63, American disco singer ([[Hot Stuff (Donna Summer song)|"Hot Stuff"]], [[Last Dance (song)|"Last Dance"]], "[[I Feel Love]]"), lung cancer. +
-*[[The Dillards|Doug Dillard]], 75, American bluegrass musician ([[The Dillards]]) and actor (''[[The Andy Griffith Show]]''), after long illness. +
-* [[Chuck Brown]], 75, American singer and musician, the "Godfather of [[Go-go]]", multiple organ failure. +
-*[[Carlos Fuentes]], 83, Mexican novelist.+
-*[[Belita Woods]], 63, American singer, heart failure. +
-*[[Donald "Duck" Dunn]], 70, American bass guitarist. +
-*[[Günther Kaufmann]], 64, German film actor, heart attack. +
-*[[Horst Faas]], 79, German photojournalist ([[Associated Press]]). +
-*[[Joyce Redman]], 96, Irish-born British actress (''[[Tom Jones (film)|Tom Jones]]''). +
-*[[Vidal Sassoon]], 84, British hairstylist. +
-*[[Maurice Sendak]], 83, American author (''[[Where the Wild Things Are]]''), complications of a stroke. +
-*[[Jean Laplanche]], 87, French psychoanalyst, pulmonary fibrosis.+
-* [[Adam Yauch]], 47, American musician ([[Beastie Boys]]) and film director (''[[Gunnin' for That No. 1 Spot]]''), cancer. +
-* [[Digby Wolfe]], 82, British actor and screenwriter, cancer.+
-*[[Lloyd Brevett]], 80, Jamaican double bassist ([[The Skatalites]]).+
-* [[David Weiss (artist)|David Weiss]], 65, Swiss artist ([[Peter Fischli & David Weiss]]). +
-* [[Louis le Brocquy]], 95, Irish artist.+
-* [[Amos Vogel]], 91, Austrian-born American founder of the [[New York Film Festival]] and [[Cinema 16]]. +
-* [[Chris Ethridge]], 65, American country rock bassist, ([[International Submarine Band]] and [[The Flying Burrito Brothers]]). +
-*[[Levon Helm]], 71, American musician ([[The Band]]) and actor (''[[Coal Miner's Daughter]]''), throat cancer. +
-*[[Dick Clark]], 82, American TV and radio host (''[[American Bandstand]]'', heart attack. +
-*[[William Finley (actor)|William Finley]], 69, American actor. +
-*[[Andrew Love (musician)|Andrew Love]], 70, American saxophonist ([[The Memphis Horns]]).+
-*[[Cynthia Dall]], American musician.+
-*[[Rikiya Yasuoka]], 64, Japanese actor and singer. +
-*[[Barney McKenna]], 72, Irish musician ([[The Dubliners]]). +
-*[[Claude Miller]], 70, French director, producer, and screenwriter. +
-*[[Harry Crews]], 76, American author, neuropathy.+
-*[[Adrienne Rich]], 82, American lesbian feminist poet and essayist, complications of rheumatoid arthritis.+
-*[[Warren Stevens]], 92, American actor (''[[Forbidden Planet]], [[The Barefoot Contessa]]''), lung disease.+
-*[[Hilton Kramer]], 84, American art critic. +
-*[[Robert Fuest]], 84, English film director.+
-* [[Tonino Guerra]], 92, Italian poet and screenwriter (''[[L'Avventura]]'', ''[[L'eclisse]]'', ''[[Blowup]]'', ''[[Amarcord]]'').+
-*[[Michel Duchaussoy]], 73, French actor, cardiac arrest. +
-*[[Sid Couchey]], 92, American comic book artist, Burkitt's lymphoma.+
-*[[Jean Giraud]], 73, French comic book artist (''[[Blueberry (comics)|Blueberry]]'', ''[[Métal Hurlant]]'') and production designer (''[[Tron]]'', ''[[Alien (film)|Alien]]''). +
-*[[Jimmy Ellis (singer)|Jimmy Ellis]], 74, American lead singer ([[The Trammps]]). +
-*[[Pierre Tornade]], 82, French actor.+
-*[[Félicien Marceau]], 98, French novelist, member of the [[Académie française]]. +
-*[[Lucio Dalla]], 68, Italian singer-songwriter and musician, heart attack. +
-*[[Davy Jones (actor)|Davy Jones]], 66, British actor and musician ([[The Monkees]]), heart attack.+
-* [[Winston Riley]], 65, Jamaican reggae musician and producer, complications of shooting. +
-* [[Erland Josephson]], 88, Swedish actor and author.+
-* [[Louisiana Red]], 79, American blues musician. +
-* [[Red Holloway]], 84, American jazz saxophonist, sideman to [[Etta James]], stroke and kidney failure. +
-*[[Peter Halliday]], 87, Welsh actor. +
-*[[Kenneth Price]], 77, American ceramics artist, cancer.+
-*[[Pery Ribeiro]], 74, Brazilian singer. +
-*[[Mike Melvoin]], 74, American jazz pianist and composer, cancer.+
-*[[Barney Rosset]], 89, American publisher ([[Grove Press]]) and free speech advocate. +
-*[[Michael Davis (bassist)|Michael Davis]], 68, American bassist ([[MC5]]), liver failure. +
-*[[Dory Previn]], 86, American singer-songwriter (''[[Mythical Kings and Iguanas]]'') and lyricist (''[[Valley of the Dolls (film)|Valley of the Dolls]]'', ''[[Last Tango in Paris]]''). +
-*[[Lillian Bassman]], 94, American photographer. +
-*[[David Kelly (actor)|David Kelly]], 82, Irish actor (''[[Strumpet City (TV miniseries)|Strumpet City]]'', ''[[Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (film)|Charlie and the Chocolate Factory]]''). +
-*[[Whitney Houston]], 48, American singer and actress.+
-* [[Robert Hecht, Jr.]], 92, American antiquities dealer. +
-*[[Luis Alberto Spinetta]], 62, Argentine musician ([[Almendra (band)|Almendra]], [[Pescado Rabioso]]), lung cancer. +
-*[[Sergio Larraín]], 81, Chilean photographer.+
-*[[Wando (Brazilian singer)|Wando]], 66, Brazilian singer, cardiorespiratory arrest.+
-*[[Antoni Tàpies]], 88, Spanish painter.+
-*[[Yasuhiro Ishimoto]], 90, Japanese photographer, complications following pneumonia and a stroke.+
-*[[Bill Hinzman]], 75, American actor (''[[Night of the Living Dead]]'')+
-*[[Ben Gazzara]], 81, American actor (''[[Tales of Ordinary Madness]]''), pancreatic cancer. +
-*[[Zalman King]], 69, American film director ([[Wild Orchid (film)|''Wild Orchid'']]) and producer (''[[9½ Weeks]]''). +
-*[[Dorothy Gilman]], 88, American spy novelist, (''[[The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax]]''), complications of Alzheimer’s disease. +
-*[[Mike Kelley (artist)|Mike Kelley]], 57, American artist and musician ([[Destroy All Monsters (band)|Destroy All Monsters]]), suicide. (body found on this date)+
-*[[Dorothea Tanning]], 101, American surrealist painter, printmaker and sculptor.+
-* [[Wisława Szymborska]], 88, Polish poet, [[Nobel Prize in Literature]] (1996). +
-* [[Don Cornelius]], 75, American television host ([[Soul Train]]), self-inflicted gunshot.+
-*[[King Stitt]], 71, Jamaican singer.+
-*[[Ian Abercrombie]], 77, English <!-- per his article;no evidence he became US citizen -->actor (''[[Young Frankenstein]]'').+
-*[[Vadim Glowna]], 70, German actor and film director. +
-*[[Theodoros Angelopoulos]], 76, Greek film director, injuries from being hit by motorcycle.+
-* [[Etta James]], 73, American singer ("[[At Last]]"), leukemia. +
-* [[Rudi van Dantzig]], 78, Dutch choreographer.+
-*[[Johnny Otis]], 90, American R&B singer-songwriter. +
-* [[Jimmy Castor]], 64, American funk and R&B saxophonist ("[[Troglodyte (Cave Man)]]"). +
-*[[Carlo Fruttero]], 85, Italian writer. +
-*[[Eve Arnold]], 99, American photographer.+
-*[[Frederica Sagor Maas]], 111, American playwright, screenwriter, memoirist and author. +
-==See also==+Part of the film takes place at the now-closed [[Enchanted Forest (Maryland)|Enchanted Forest]] [[amusement park]] in [[Ellicott City, Maryland]]. Others take place in the historic towns of Reisterstown, Jessup, Milford Mill and Sykesville, Maryland.
-*[[Deaths in 2008]]+
-*[[Deaths in 2009]]+
-*[[Deaths in 2010]]+
-*[[Deaths in 2011]]+
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Cry-Baby is a 1990 American teen musical film written and directed by John Waters. It stars Johnny Depp as 1950s teen rebel "Cry-Baby" Wade Walker, and also features a large ensemble cast that includes Amy Locane, Iggy Pop, Traci Lords, Ricki Lake, Kim McGuire, David Nelson, Susan Tyrrell, and Patty Hearst. The film did not achieve high audience numbers in its initial release, but has subsequently become a cult classic and spawned a Broadway musical of the same name which was nominated for four Tony Awards.

The film is a parody of teen musicals (particularly Grease) and centers on a group of delinquents that refer to themselves as "drapes" and their interaction with the rest of the town and its other subculture, the "squares", in 1950s Baltimore, Maryland. "Cry-Baby" Walker, a drape, and Allison, a square, create upheaval and turmoil in their little town of Baltimore by breaking the subculture taboos and falling in love. The film shows what the young couple have to overcome to be together and how their actions affect the rest of the town.

Part of the film takes place at the now-closed Enchanted Forest amusement park in Ellicott City, Maryland. Others take place in the historic towns of Reisterstown, Jessup, Milford Mill and Sykesville, Maryland.

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