A bunch of years ago, I attended an art opening at a gallery in San Francisco that #JohnWaters held for his fine art. His social nature was in high gear that day, he was talking with everybody, all the while with a huge smile under his thin pencil mustache. I had the opportunity to speak with him that day, and at the end of the conversation, I asked if I could have my picture taken with him by a friend. "Of course" he beamed! 1/2
52 years ago today on March 17 1972, my favorite movie 'Pink Flamingos' had its premiere at the campus of the University of Baltimore. It's quite a film.
I don't recommend you watch this movie unless you're prepared for some weird and gross stuff. But I grew up in Maryland and it sure does sum up Baltimore in a beautiful and bizarre way.
I love John Waters flicks, and this one's my favorite forever.
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"john waters, paul verhoeven and david cronenberg are all working on new movies right now. it’s like they saw all the anti-sex scene discourse and assembled the pervert film elder avengers"
Today in Labor History February 4, 1974: The Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA) kidnapped Patty Hearst, granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst, in Berkeley, California. One of the SLA’s demands for releasing Hearst was for her family to pay for millions of dollars’ worth of food to be given out free the poor and unhoused of the San Francisco Bay Area. The Hearst complied, with various community organizations distributing 100,000 bags of groceries at 16 sites in 4 counties, before violence brought the program to a halt. The violence occurred because the crowds were bigger than expected and workers started throwing boxes of food off of moving trucks. As a captive, Patty Hearst was held in a closet, blindfolded, with her hands tied, raped and threatened repeatedly with death. She was later offered the choice of freedom, or joining the SLA. She chose the latter. Consequently, she was later sentenced to 35 years in prison for her complicity in SLA robberies. After several years in prison, her sentence was commuted by President Carter. President Clinton pardoned her. Congressional Representative Leo Ryan was murdered by the Jim Jones cult in Guyana several weeks after collecting signatures for her release. Actor John Wayne, of all people, expressed frustration that everyone accepted the idea that Jones had brainwashed hundreds of his followers into mass suicide, but wouldn’t accept that the SLA could have brainwashed a teenage girl. After her release, Hearst went on to become an actress, appearing in several John Waters films, as well as many others.
This summer, four fans will get to spend a night in jail with John Waters
The writer, filmmaker and recent Hollywood Walk of Fame honoree isn’t charged with a crime. He’s heading to jail as part of the film society’s online fundraising auction, which starts this week.
David Nevin whipping a Satanic Sharon Tate in a church as Donald Pleasence looks on in a silly hat; I can see how someone could mistake this for an early John Waters film ...
. #TCMParty #EyeOfTheDevil #JohnWaters
Carol Ohmart running around in lingerie while cannibal girls with the minds of children are chasing her with barbecue forks; I can see how someone could mistake this for an early John Waters film ...
. #TCMParty #SpiderBaby #JohnWaters
Today, October 5, a Baltimore jury hears the closing arguments in the trial of unassuming middle-class mom and accused serial killer Beverly Sutphin (Serial Mom, 1994)
#JohnWaters is in the news because he just got a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. I very much enjoyed his "Hairspray" movie with Ricki Lake. But I can't remember anything good about his other movies. What do you think?
It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.