John Waters gets star on Hollywood Walk of Fame: “Closer to the gutter than ever!”
A post shared by Hollywood Walk Of Fame (@hwdwalkoffame)Cult movie director John Waters, 77, was yesterday honored with his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.Waters attended the unveiling.
Guest speakers at the ceremony included Mink Stole, who has appeared in several of Waters’ movies, photographer Greg Gorman, and Ricki Lake, who got her breakout role in the 1988’s Hairspray.Waters made a name for himself with low-budget, trashy B-movies in the late 1960s and 1970s.
Many starred his good friend, Harris Glenn Milstead, otherwise known under their drag name, Divine.Waters enjoyed an unexpected hit with Hairspray, which catapulted him into the mainstream.
The movie spurned a hit stage show that continues to play around the world today and spawned a second movie version in 2007.In a speech, Waters prompted laughter by saying his star on the Walk of Fame in Hollywood brought him “closer to the gutter than ever!”"Here I am, closer to the gutter than ever," says John Waters at his Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony.
