Cult choice

An enthusiastic teen (Ricki Lake) doesn’t let her size deter her dreams or her efforts to integrate Baltimore’s local “Bandstand”-like TV dancing showcase in the 1988 comedy “Hairspray” (8 p.m., TCM, TV-14), also starring Divine, who died three weeks after its debut. Co-stars and cameos include Jerry Stiller, Sonny Bono, Debbie Harry, Pia Zadora and Rick Ocasek. A hit that brought mainstream acceptance to shock-value director John Waters, “Hairspray” remains one of the few movies to mine the civil rights era for laughs.