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John Waters Talks Religion, Popper Parties and Dildo Babiesnew

Employing off-the-wall, cartoonish characters, the father of a plastic child named “Bill” has made a career of delving deep into the smuttiest nooks of the human psyche, elevating lowbrow to new heights along the way and making audiences root for his hair-ratting, foot-stompin’ and shit-eating antiheros.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Enrique Limón |
10-17-2013 |
Culture
Tags: John Waters
A Conversation With John Watersnew

Not long ago, John Waters acted out an airplane crash with a room full of first graders. The kids loved it. It was the same presentation he gives at prisons. Waters states he is proud of the fact that his work has no redeeming social value.
NUVO |
Ed Johnson-Ott |
11-09-2011 |
Performance
Tags: John Waters, Hairspray
Smelled Any Good Movies Lately? A History of Fragant Cinemanew

A German company called Cinescent has recently begun bombarding European movie screens with scented advertisements. But this isn't the first time people have tried adding smells to the theater-going experience
Fast Forward Weekly |
John Tebbutt |
10-01-2009 |
Movies
John Waters: The Trash Auteur Speaks Out -- Way Outnew

On gay marriage, the presidential race, the corrupting influence of irony and the release of his new 'Til Death Do Us Part DVD.
L.A. Weekly |
Steven Mikulan |
07-07-2008 |
Profiles & Interviews
Still, Waters Runs Deepnew

"I'm very against capital punishment. Because I'm afraid I'll get it!"
LEO Weekly |
Sherry Deatrick |
11-15-2006 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: John Waters
Movies That Heated Up Cinemas in 2004new
Not one of the political documentariess distributed this year made a fraction of Fahrenheit 9/11's earnings, and deservedly so, because not one outraged, engaged or entertained the way Michael Moore's film did.
Head of the Classnew
Almodóvar's latest film is a lurid, contrived, gratuitously sexy (especially homo-sexy) thriller with a smirk on its face and a cigarette holder sinking hot ash into the shag carpet.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
12-22-2004 |
Reviews
Season's Bleatingsnew
Plenty of celebrities are looking to pad their bank accounts via Christmas recordings, and few appear to have broken a sweat while making them.
The Thin-Mustached Dude Behind Our Favorite Holiday Albumnew
This oddball collection skips the predictable stuff and instead offers some rare archival recordings that are guaranteed to make you laugh and/or really creep you out.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Craig Seymour |
11-24-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Delightful, Dirty Watersnew
John Waters has influenced a generation of filmmakers with his trashy films, including his new A Dirty Shame. But what is trashy these days, anyway?
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
09-30-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Tags: John Waters, A Dirty Shame
Wade in the Distinctly Waters' Trashnew
John Waters, America's king of trash, is back with this tale of sex addiction, fetishes, and mad, bad, lascivious squirrel sexin’.
Austin Chronicle |
Marc Savlov |
09-24-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: John Waters, A Dirty Shame
Naked Lunchnew
In an interview, director John Waters outlines a powerful case for the end of repression and the restoration of genuine fun, laughter and bad taste.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
09-24-2004 |
Profiles & Interviews
Waters Sportsnew
It’s a dirty shame that John Waters hasn’t made a truly offensive movie in more than 20 years. One can only hope that the NC-17 rated A Dirty Shame will change that.
Boston Phoenix |
Peter Keough |
09-24-2004 |
Reviews
A Less-Dirty Shamenew
While it received the dreaded NC-17 rating, John Waters' latest is minor compared to his previous films.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
09-23-2004 |
Reviews
Director Needs to Grow Up Alreadynew
Some milestone has surely been marked when the latest John Waters film doesn't shock so much as make you wish the director would grow up already. At 58, Waters is still fixated on the kind of bathroom humor and sexual material that seems puerile.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Felicia Feaster |
09-23-2004 |
Reviews
Tags: John Waters, A Dirty Shame