Tag: John Waters
John Waters responds to Trump’s racially-charged comments calling Baltimore ‘rodent-infested’
Yesterday, Trump attacked both Baltimore and Democratic U.S. Representative Elijah Cummings, a leading black Congressional member who has criticized Trump and represents a large part of Baltimore as the rep for Maryland’s 7th congressional district. In response, Baltimore-born director John Waters, The Baltimore Sun, Cummings himself and others have denounced Trump in the strongest terms.
After Cummings criticized the treatment of immigrant children by U.S. Border Patrol at the southern border, Trump wrote the following tweets to deflect, distract and...
John Waters on Kevin Spacey, Provincetown, petty theft, and his own biopic
“You’re about the furthest you can come. Maybe the top of Maine might be further.”
John Waters chides us for our long-distance journey from Los Angeles to Provincetown, Massachusets, located on the tip of Cape Cod. We meet one another on a sunny afternoon in the garden of a local mansion, celebrity-studded party in full swing, courtesy of the Provincetown Film Festival.
Waters, of course, transcended his rebellious beginnings as the guerilla filmmaker of scandalous movies like Pink Flamingoes, Female Trouble and Polyester...
Is Provincetown ‘too gay’? Let’s ask John Waters.
Is Provincetown too gay? Are the local drag queens too aggressive in accosting unsuspecting tourists? Is the Pilgrim Monument an appropriate town symbol?
Those are a few of the questions raised by one of Provincetown’s most famous seasonal residents, gay filmmaker and writer John Waters. In a new book of essays, Mr. Know-It-All: The Tarnished Wisdom of a Filth Elder, Waters devotes a chapter to the town where he’s spent his summer vacations for 55 years.
He extols many of the...
