Hairspray. Cry-Baby. Serial Mom. Pink Flamingos.
Filmmaker John Waters has a long, illustrious, and unique body of work.
He started making movies in the early 1960s, but only rose to prominence in the ’70s, and by the ’80s was a cultural icon.
I first met him in the fall of 1986. He had just published a by collection of his writings, a slender little book called “Crackpot.”
So here now, from 1986, John Waters.
That movie he John Waters was talking about, near the end there — yes,. that was Hairspray.
John Waters celebrated his 74th birthday this spring. While he hasn’t made a movie in several years, he was seen earlier this year in an episode of “Law & Order SVU.”