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John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, writer, actor, and artist. He rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films, including Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974). Waters wrote and directed the comedy film Hairspray (1988), which was later adapted into a hit ...
John Waters. Actor: Pecker. Growing up in Baltimore in the 1950s, John Waters was not like other children; he was obsessed by violence and gore, both real and on the screen. With his weird counter-culture friends as his cast, he began making silent 8mm and 16mm films in the mid-'60s; he screened these in rented Baltimore church halls to underground audiences drawn by word of mouth and street ...
John Waters (born 1948) [1] is an English-born Australian film, theatre and television actor, singer, guitarist, songwriter, and musician. He is the son of Scottish actor Russell Waters. John Waters has been in the industry for over 50 years, and was part of the Australian children's television series Play School for 18 years.
3 days ago · The late muse of director John Waters, Divine delighted in inspiring outrage and disgust on and off screen. However from The Little Mermaid to Chappell Roan, he has left a big impression on ...
Sep 22, 2023 · The legend and icon John Waters, a mustachioed Maryland man who talked the drag queen Divine into eating a dog turd on film in his 1972 cult classic Pink Flamingos, has spent this past week being ...
Sep 22, 2023 · John Waters' professional life is a stark contrast to his personal one. He is known as an American filmmaker, director, producer, writer, and actor with over 58 years of experience in the industry. His accomplishments as an artist have helped him gain many awards and accolades. He even received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023
John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946 in Baltimore, Maryland) is an American director, actor, screenwriter, producer, and owner of a badass pencil moustache.He spent much of the 1970s and '80s making low-budget exploitation movies, such as Pink Flamingos and Female Trouble, before achieving (relative) mainstream acceptance with Hairspray in 1988.
Polyester is a 1981 American comedy film directed, produced, and written by John Waters, and starring Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, and Mink Stole.It satirizes the melodramatic genre of women's pictures, particularly those directed by Douglas Sirk, whose work directly influenced this film.The film is also a satire of suburban life in the early 1980s, involving topics such as divorce ...
John Waters. Irish Thinker, Talker, and Writer. The truth always has a future . . . 'The truth is like a lion, you don't have to defend it. Let it loose and it will defend itself.'. — St. Augustine. Irish Thinker, Talker, and Writer.
Jun 10, 2014 · A Tamer John Waters. Film critic Stephen Schiff reviews "Hairspray," the latest film by director and writer John Waters. "Hairspray," a satire of the teen dance shows of the early 60s, follows a long line of wildly eccentric films like "Polyester," "Pink Flamingos," and "Female Trouble." The cast includes Divine, Debbie Harry, Pia Zadora and ...
