"Get ready for something big July 20th!" Pleasantly plump teenager Tracy Turnblad teaches 1962 Baltimore a thing or two about integration after landing a spot on a local TV dance show.

"Somewhere under the sea and beyond your imagination is an adventure in fantasy." A mermaid princess makes a faustian bargain with an unscrupulous seahag in order to meet a human prince on land.

"The music. The legend. The hostage situation." Three band members hoping for a big break head to a radio station to play their demo tape and wind up holding everyone hostage with plastic guns when the head DJ refuses to play them.

"Born to poverty. Destined for stardom. He Lived the American Dream." Biographical story of the rise from nowhere of singer Ritchie Valens whose life was cut short by a plane crash.