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"Pink Flamingoes" director and Pope of Trash JOHN WATERS discusses how his odd roster of role models inspired him to achieve neurotic happiness. In this conversation with Paul Holdengräber, Waters also offers subversive tips for how to dress, steal flowers and die.
~ Conversation Portrait by Flash Rosenberg ~
Artist-in-Residence, LIVE from the New York Public Library
~ ideas drawn as they are discussed in real time ~
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JOHN WATERS is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and visual artist best known for his cult films, including Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, and Cecil B. DeMented. He lives in Baltimore.
PAUL HOLDENGRÄBER is the Director of Public Programs - known as LIVE from the NYPL- for The Research Libraries of The New York Public Library. This conversation occurred on June 7, 2010.
beautiful. if more americans look at this man as a fountain of wisdom, we would be happier.
Leona10037 6 months ago
What an inspiring genius! Thank you John Waters! Thank you! "...kids today should mock our fearing of getting older. I think kids should draw on bags [under our eyes], shave male pattern baldness - do everything we fear, get reverse face lifts"
mydoppelganger 11 months ago