Boycotts, Hairspray and Gun violence By Hank Silverberg It has been an interesting week. The baseball season opened, the weather turned from spring, to winter and back to spring again , and a teenage high school student became the target of an uninformed TV talk show host with political aspirations. S o after all the yelling on TV, re-arranging the coat closet and disappointment over opening day sc o res , it was time for a diversion. My wife suggested that we watch a DVD of the musical , “Hairspray . ” I have seen it several times before , but it’s always entertaining to watch John Travolta dancing around the screen as a zaftig woman . T he movie was not a diversion this time. If you don’t know the storyline of “Hairspray , ” it’s about a young , overweight girl named Tracy, who lives in segregated Baltimore in the early 1960’s, whose only desire in life is to dance on a local TV show sponsored by a hairspray company. Her weight has made her