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Shed No Tears for 'Cry-Baby'

Stars As of 8pm, we had high hopes for "Cry-Baby." In the overture, the band sang to the crowd to shut its cellphones off. But when we heard the awful lyric "It's a beautiful day for an anti-polio picnic" at 8:02 pm, we got worried. By 10 pm it was official: "Cry-Baby" had completely failed to knock our bobby socks off.

Based on John Waters' cult film starring Johnny Depp and Ricki Lake,...

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