Who is john waters

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Hide Show Thanks 45 credits. Broadway Bound Video short special thanks. Hide Show Self credits. Where Is My Needle?! As a kid, John Waters used a pair of binoculars to watch B-movies—and a few X-rated ones—at his local drive-in. The tawdry flicks triggered his love of trashy cinema, and helped shape the aesthetic of his purposely-lowbrow works. He used it to film his first movie , a minute short called Hag in a Black Leather Jacket.

Waters never finished college. The only problem? After several lesser-known projects, Waters released Pink Flamingos , the film that shocked theatergoers around the world. Waters originally wanted a man named "Mr. Ray" to be the narrator of Pink Flamingos Ray was famous for his hair-weave radio ads and for his Baltimore accent.

Ray refused, so Waters recorded the voice-over himself, imitating Mr. Ray's voice as "Mr. There is a special section of his immense book collection devoted to Liberace. Was supposed to have a cameo in American Splendor , as the David Letterman guest holding a alligator. One of his closest friends is Baltimore based casting director Pat Moran. Was member of the dramatic jury at the Sundance Film Festival in Was considered for the role of Det.

John Munch on Homicide: Life on the Street Son of John Waters Sr. Filming was planned for November , but it was shelved in January I sold the idea, got a development deal, got paid a great salary to write it-and now the company is no longer around, which is the case with many independent film companies these days".

Was good friends with Russ Meyer, the sexploitation filmmaker. As a fan of his work he would often go see his films in the theatre with Divine. Through his mother, he is the great-great-great-grandson of prominent businessman George Price Whitaker, of the Whitaker iron family of Pennsylvania.

Fan in some way of Charles Manson and his cult, who are a constant reference in his movies. Even befriended Van Houten after her incarceration and was a defender of her release from prison. Some call me director, producer, filmmaker.

I prefer to call myself pube-king. To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone vomits watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing ovation. But one must remember that there is such a thing as good bad taste and bad bad taste.

I pride myself on the fact that my work has no socially redeeming value. I would love to make a movie for very neurotic children. But then perhaps, I've already done that. I've shown my films at children's birthday parties. They just love them, like Punch and Judy shows. Oh, Squeaky Fromme, where were you when we needed you? As far as socially redeeming value, I hope I don't have any.

I love Judy Garland , but if a reporter were coming to my home, I wouldn't have her music playing. A gay man loving Judy would be like a black person watching a minstrel show. But so, all right, the canonization or what about it? The last movie I made was sexploitation and got an NC rating. I started and ended in the gutter. In between I did sneak attacks that worked into middle America, especially Hairspray. Even racists like Hairspray. Just like when I saw King Lear on Broadway.

It reminded me of the Theatre of the Ridiculous. So you liked it? And I can see the argument why some people might not. But it took diversity to Charles Ludlam length. They had tattoos. I love the deaf stuff. You could act butch and deaf. And then they had to learn how to act and sign at the same time. So, yeah, I like people doing extremes.

I went to see the Isabelle Huppert play. I love that she always does extreme things. He has one of the best senses of humor of all film directors. Climax was my favorite movie. I loved it, loved it, loved it.

Do you still feel like subversion and provocation is possible in film right now? Certainly, [ Climax ] is a perfect one. I was very startled by the movie. I thought it really delivered. Just sex and violence. Hollywood does that and does it badly. You have to think of a new way. And it does involve political correctness of all the things you can and cannot do in comedy today.

But I think that makes it even more of a challenge to pull it off and startle people today. Do you think friendship takes a certain precedence over romantic love? I do have a personal life.

Over half of my restaurant receipts are not tax-deductible. What do you attribute to the resilience of those relationships? You have to keep in touch with people. You have to call people. You have to be fairly social; you have to want to see people. I have a Christmas party every year. I see him every year. In the book, you write about how you and Divine had rough patches at various moments. Because where else could Divine get a job? That was the problem. I only made a movie every couple years.

How is he supposed to live? But Divine, up to the end, still got 4 percent of the profits of all those early movies. I still send it to the Divine estate. Mink and I had some problems in our life, too. Certainly, Divine, at the end, we were very close. Hairspray happened and everything. So, you got through things. When business and friendship meet, that can be complicated, too. You also briefly write about a camp counselor who jerked you off when you were 14, and I wanted to talk about that a little bit more.

I was looking for it. But later, I realized that that was definitely illegal of him to do and everything. How old was he? Twenty-two or something. But I did say okay! You work with what you got.

But it could have scarred somebody else. I put that in just because it took me a long time to realize, Well, how do I feel about that? What is your lovemap? But at the same time, they have to have a good sense of humor. That would make me crazy. Have you been in love?

Oh certainly. Yes, and I believe in that. I say in the book, you just have to tell people you love them in their sleep. Hmm, let me think. I hate romantic comedies. I hate whimsical. What is your relationship to sentimentality in general? If I do it, it would be exaggerated to be ridiculous. I would never know if it was good or bad. And I hate special-effects movies.

Did you feel like you were working through neuroses through your work? As a teen, I got hassled. I just wanted to get out of there. I knew what I wanted to do. I always went to all the exploitation movies.

Nobody said they were good then. You had to go downtown to Baltimore in a mostly, 95 percent, African-American theater to see them. And we went all the time. I would cut school and go, take speed, and see three movies a day on Black Beauties. Was I tortured?