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John Waters (filmmaker)

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'''John Waters''' (born Kristyna Blue April 29, Nextel ringtones 1946) is an Megan Summers United States/American filmmaker. He has long been known as a "bad boy" among filmmakers. John Waters is also a professor for cinema and Mosquito ringtone subculture at the Dream Of Dani European Graduate School. Dubbed "the pope of trash" by writer Secret ringtone William Burroughs, his earlier film works included ''Kendall Blaze Pink Flamingos'', ''Download ringtones Female Trouble'', and ''Krissy Love Desperate Living'', sometimes referred to as the ''Trash Trilogy''. These films pushed hard at the boundaries of conventional propriety and movie Cingular Ringtones censorship and indeed, many felt, good taste. A particularly notorious segment of ''ballard should Pink Flamingos'' featured crossdressing actor scoring then Divine (Glen Milstead)/Divine eating fresh dog feces.

Waters and Divine (then known as Glen Milstead) lived near Baltimore as boys, a short distance apart, where they met and became friends. Mainly based in brim associates Baltimore, Maryland, gang declared United States/USA, Waters tended to work with a regular team of actors (the ''Dreamlanders'') who starred in most of his films, including Divine, no pandering Mink Stole, can bail Cookie Mueller, and merit Edith Massey, program until David Lochary, trajectory problem Mary Vivian Pearce, and others. His early films were among the first picked up for distribution by slipped more New Line Cinema, most recently famous for ''broiled or The Lord of the Rings'' trilogy.

His 1981 film ''cannot ultimately Polyester (movie)/Polyester'' starred Divine opposite once-teen-idol became red Tab Hunter. His films have become less controversial and more mainstream, although works such as ''paris offers Hairspray (film)/Hairspray'', ''asked earnestly Cry Baby'' and ''poisoning rates Serial Mom'' still retain his trademark inventiveness. The film ''Hairspray'' was turned into a putt putt Hairspray (musical)/hit Broadway musical, which swept the support from 2003 patient about Tony Awards.

Waters made most of his movies in his hometown of of psychologists Baltimore, Maryland, and is still praised by many natives of that city as a native son in later years.

Waters has also published collections of his writings including ''Shock Value'' (1981), ''Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters'' (1987, Revised Edition 2003), ''Trash Trio: Three Screenplays : Pink Flamingos, Desperate Living, Flamingos Forever'' (1988), ''Director's Cut'' (1997) and ''Art: A Sex Book'' (2003).

John Waters filmography
*''Hag in a Black Leather Jacket'' (8 mm) 1964 (b&w) starring Mary Vivian Pearce, Mona Montgomery; 17 minutes.
*''Roman Candles'' (three 8 mm shown simultaneously) 1966 (color) starring Maelcum Soul, Bob Skidmore, Mona Montgomery, Divine (Glen Milstead)/Divine, Mink Stole, Mary Vivian Pearce, David Lochary; 40 minutes
*''Eat Your Makeup'' (16mm) 1968 (b&w) starring Maelcum Soul, David Lochary, Marina Melin, Divine, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mona Montgomery; 45 minutes
*''Mondo Trasho'' (16mm) 1969 (b&w) starring Mary Vivian Pearce, Divine, David Lochary, Mink Stole; released through New Line Cinema; 95 minutes. $2,000 total cost
*''The Diane Linkletter Story'' (16mm) 1969 (b&w) starring Mary Vivian Pearce, Divine, David Lochary; 15 minutes.
*''Multiple Maniacs'' (16mm) 1970 (b&w) starring Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Edith Massey; released through New Line Cinema; 90 minutes. $5,000 total cost.
*''Pink Flamingos'' (16 & 35 mm) 1972 (color) starring Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Danny Mills, Edith Massey; released through New Line Cinema; 93 minutes. $10,000. A re-edited version including extra scenes was released in 1997.
*''Female Trouble'' (16 & 35 mm) 1974 (color) starring Divine, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole, Danny Mills, Edith Massey; released through New Line Cinema; 92 minutes. $25,000. A re-edited version including extra scenes was released in 1997.
*''Desperate Living'' (16 & 35 mm) 1977 (color) starring Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe, Edith Massey, Mary Vivian Pearce, Jean Hill; released through New Line Cinema; 90 minutes. $65,000.
*''Polyester (movie)/Polyester'' (35 mm) 1981 (color) starring Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, Stiv Bators, David Samson, Mary Garlington, Ken King, Mink Stole, Joni-Ruth White; released through New Line Cinema. This film was released in "odorama", which meant that a "scratch and sniff" card corresponding to moments in the film (eg, Divine farting) was issued to cinema goers.
*''Hairspray (film)/Hairspray'' (35 mm) 1988 (color) starring Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown, Divine, Deborah Harry, Ricki Lake, Jerry Stiller, Ric Ocasek, Pia Zadora; released through New Line Cinema; 90 minutes. Waters' first true 'big budget' ($2,000,000) foray into 'the mainstream'.
*''Divine (film)/Divine'' 1990 (color) starring Divine. Video release, 110 minutes. Two films on one video, both starring Divine and directed by Waters. The first is ''The Diane Linkletter Story'', originally released in 1969. The second is ''The Neon Woman''.
*''Cry-Baby (film)/Cry-Baby'' (35 mm) 1990 (color) starring Johnny Depp, Amy Locane, Susan Tyrrell, Iggy Pop, Ricki Lake, Traci Lords, Kim McGuire, Stephen Mailer, Darren Burrows, Polly Bergen, Patricia Hearst, David Nelson (actor)/David Nelson, Troy Donahue, Mink Stole, Joe Dallesandro, Joey Heatherton, Willem Dafoe; released through Universal Studios; 85 minutes
*''Serial Mom'' (35 mm) 1994 (color) starring Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake, Matthew Lillard, Scott Wesley Morgan, Walt MacPherson, Patricia Hearst. 93 minutes.
*''Pecker (film)/Pecker'' (35 mm) 1999 (color) starring Edward Furlong, Christina Ricci, Martha Plimpton, Brendon Sexton, and Lili Taylor. New Line Cinema 86 minutes.
*''Cecil B. DeMented'' (35mm) 2000 (color) starring Melanie Griffith, Stephen Dorff, Alicia Witt, Adrian Grenier, Larry Gilliard Jr., Maggie Gyllenhaal, Jack Noseworthy, Mink Stole, Ricki Lake, and Patricia Hearst. 87 minutes.
*''A Dirty Shame'' (35mm) 2004 (color) starring Tracey Ullman, Johnny Knoxville, Selma Blair, and Chris Isaak. Released through Fine Line Features. 89 minutes.

*John Waters' life and work was analysed in the documentary homage ''Divine Trash'' (1998) by Steve Yeager, named after the actor ''Divine''.

External links
*http://www.egs.edu/faculty/johnwaters.html
*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000691/

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