On 'Hairspray's' 25th anniversary, 'Buddy Deane' Committee looks back

If you were a teenager in Baltimore in the late 1950s and early 1960s, you watched "The Buddy Deane Show." When the final bell rang you sprinted home from school, saddle shoes smacking the sidewalk, knee socks sliding down your shins, until you skidded to a stop in front of your black-and-white TV and turned to WJZ Channel 13 to watch Maryland's answer to "American Bandstand." Chances are you wanted to be on "The Buddy Deane Show," whose stars were ordinary teens turned local celebrities. The Co...