![]() ![]() He’s also bringing his latest spoken-word show, False Negative, to London's Barbican Hall for back-to-back Friday night shows on June 10. ![]() The fact Waters gives his antiheroine an almost cutesy-sounding name – Marsha Sprinkle – only makes her more shocking. He’s recently published his debut novel Liarmouth, a gloriously sordid romp about an amoral femme fatale who makes her living by swiping suitcases from airports. Now 76, Baltimore-based Waters continues to move with the times by sending them up in his own transgressive way. It’s safe to presume no Hollywood remake of Pink Flamingos is coming any time soon. Hairspray has since been adapted into an enormously successful Broadway musical and glossy Hollywood blockbuster that put John Travolta in the dragged-up role originated by Divine. But Waters did this in his 1972 cult classic Pink Flamingos, and never looked back.īy the time he made 1988’s big-hearted comedy Hairspray, Waters was inching ever closer to mainstream success. No other film director would devise a scene where an outrageous reprobate played by the greatest drag queen of all – Waters’ longtime collaborator Divine – eats an actual dog poo. For nearly 60 years he’s offered a uniquely subversive form of social commentary by bulldozing through contemporary notions of American “good taste”. John Waters has been called many things: the Prince of Puke, the People’s Pervert, the Pope of Trash. ![]()
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