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Filthy, frisky & fabulous into your 60s…

bunniculux — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:10:42 GMT

America’s sweetheart John Waters reveals his secrets for maintaining a successful marriage, a well-balanced career, and easing into dirty old man-hood with grace and panache in this very readable profile in New York magazine:

http://nymag.com/news/features/45305/

Cry-Baby on Broadway…sighhh…that makes me the happiest juvenile delinquent this side of Baltimore.

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John Waters: Reckless Eyeballs

luminous_ferret — Tue, 24 Jul 2007 22:14:46 GMT

when: Now through Sat 8.18 (Tue-Fri: 10:30am-5:30pm / Sat: 11am-5pm)
where: Rena Bransten Gallery (77 Geary St, 415.982.3292)
price: FREE

Executed with bonhomie but also deviant panache, John Waters presents his third solo exhibition with Rena Bransten Gallery. Fans familiar with the cult-auteur's films but less so with his art shouldn't be surprised to find a six-foot rubber snake (Waters' "reincarnation") or 20 photographic stills gleaned from films deemed "unwatchable" by critics. The stills, laid out side-by-side, isolate the same satisfyingly humorous and satirical juxtapositions that make watching cult films enjoyable in the first place. While the show might have just as easily been titled Reckless Filmmakers, the artist's trademark focus on culture's castaways and misfits shines through.

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Divine memories

confetta — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 03:47:12 GMT

Divine memories
A newbie reporter meets a famous old queen
http://www.fabmagazine.com/features/322/divine.html

In his new book The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers (Arsenal Pulp Press,$26.95), Montreal writer Matthew Hays grills Pedro Almodóvar, Gregg Araki, John Greyson, Bruce LaBruce, Patricia Rozema, Gus Van Sant and John Waters. But he saves his most tantalizing subject for last, devoting the postscript to his 1986 interview with the late Divine, star of Waters’ movies Female Trouble (1974), Polyester (1981), Hairspray (1988) and Pink Flamingos (1972) where he infamously ate dog shit for the camera.

In this excerpt from the book, Hays celebrates Divine like only an enthralled queer fan could. The actor/singer/drag artist/troublemaker died two years after they spoke.

In 1986, at the age of 21, I managed to land an interview with Divine, John Waters’ leading lady in a number of his nowlegendary films, for The Gateway, the student paper at the University of Alberta in my hometown of Edmonton. What follows is the first interview I ever conducted. Divine was in town for two nights, playing at a club called Goose Loonies. (No, I’m not making that up.) After the show on the first night, I left a note for his manager at the adjoining hotel asking if I could interview Divine the next day. It worked—I got a call, and my heart pounded rapidly as I realized I’d landed an interview with one of my idols.

The only recording device I had was a ghetto blaster—and an ugly yellow one at that. But damn, was Divine ever sweet. He was just the best: warm, funny, and full of star power. It was precisely the kind of experience a starstruck student journalist like me had been dreaming of.

Will a sequel to Pink Flamingos ever be made? I read John Waters’ article in American Film magazine about his attempts to get someone to financially back the sequel.

I think it was scrapped after Edith Massey died. John said he would never try to find a replacement for her or me or for anyone. As far as he’s concerned, there aren’t any.

Certainly not for Edith Massey.

Or me [Laughs]. You’re talking to me! No, that’s true. There aren’t any other Ediths around. But really, it wasn’t my favourite script. We did enough with dog shit.

You’ve had a lot of press about the shit.

Yes. Whether it was real or not, I’m not going to say, but the scene stuck in people’s minds… stuck in my throat.

I’ve heard that scene estranged you from your parents.

For about nine years, we didn’t speak. We’re great now, though.

How did you and John Waters meet and how was it that you established a professional relationship?

We were neighbours. We grew up in Lutherville, Maryland. John was quite a movie buff, as I was too. John just always wanted to make movies. John went on to make a film for $250 that was shown at the University of Maryland and we were invited to introduce a screening. I went all done up, and John came onstage first and gave a long speech about movie-making, and then he introduced me as the “most beautiful woman in the world almost”—almost because I’m a man—and I came out having a modeling fit and then answered questions about acting, which I thought took a lot of balls. That was our routine. John also helped me with my first club act in San Francisco. I would push out a shopping cart onstage, and there was ground beef and fish and a telephone book. I would spin the fish around and rub them all over my body and then throw them into the audience, which would splatter all over people. It was a horrible mess. Then I’d throw ground beef at the people, and rip the telephone book in half. Three guys all dressed in black would come out and lie down head to foot, I would walk over top of them and squat over their faces and flashbulbs would go off. Then I would answer questions from the audience. This was my nightclub act at the time.

This must have been very racy then, years ago, versus today [1986].

Yes, it’s come around now. People used to sit there with their mouths just open—especially if they got hit by a fish.

You travel a lot. Do foreign customs agents ever give you hassles?

Only in Canada. Once in Germany, and another time in Sweden.

You’re riding a wave of popularity right now. Where do you see yourself in 10 years?

I’m going for it. Right to the top. Why not? All I can do is not make it.

One could say you already have. You’re quite a cult phenomenon.

Oh, but I want more than that. I want Oscars, Golden Globes, Grammys. I mean, why not? If somebody had told me five or six years ago that I’d have gold and platinum records, I would have said they were crazy because I didn’t sing. But now I’ve got them on the wall.

I’d like to see you get an Oscar.

So would I. And I will, if I have anything to say about it. It’s been a dream of mine since I was a kid.

Some people are offended by your act. They consider you a bit of a freak—a novelty only because you’re overweight and obviously homosexual. How do you react?

They’re assholes [Laughs]. These are people who are uptight about their sexuality. Not everyone’s going to like me, but I’m not doing my act for everyone. I’m doing it for those who like it. Some people don’t like Diana Ross, and all she does is get up and sing pop songs. I don’t think I’m a freak, I’m just another entertainer who happened to do something no one else had.

Reprinted with permission from The View from Here: Conversations with Gay and Lesbian Filmmakers (Arsenal Pulp Press, 2007).

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think Divine watched....

confetta — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 14:56:06 GMT

totie much?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfYjBuBMQCc

~confetta

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Divine's Last Interview...

confetta — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:17:57 GMT

An interview with Divine
http://wockner.blogspot.com/2007/04/interview-with-divine.html

Two weeks before his 1988 death in Los Angeles, I conducted one of the last sit-down interviews with Divine. We talked in Chicago, where he was promoting his new film, Hairspray, and performing at a local dance bar. Hairspray had just begun receiving wide critical acclaim and was being heralded as Divine's and filmmaker John Waters' crossover into the mainstream.

Hairspray is a comedy about a fat teenage girl, Tracy Turnblad, who becomes a star in 1962 on a live TV dance program in Baltimore. Once Tracy achieves fame, she uses her celebrity status to force racial integration of the show, which had previously hosted "Negro Day" once a month. Divine plays Tracy's diet-pill-popping mother, a bored housewife who can't stand hearing The Corny Collins Dance Show blast out of the tube every day after school, until her daughter becomes a star.

I talked with Divine on a Friday afternoon at the Belmont Hotel. He came across as relaxed, soft-spoken, gentle, perhaps even a little innocent and shy.

Rex Wockner: Your new film is a teen flick and a half-serious message movie. It almost seemed to me like more of a message movie.

Divine: No, it's strictly supposed to be a comedy. John [Waters] always makes movies about things that aren't particularly funny. The only reason the race things were brought into the movie at all is because they did exist. Blacks weren't allowed on these dance shows in 1962. Sometimes we had record hops where there were ropes down the middle of the room, with blacks on one side and whites on the other. I remember as a child growing up in Baltimore that black people always sat in the back of the bus or the streetcar.

RW: Edna Turnblad, the bored, jaded, always-ironing, diet-pill-popping housewife you play in Hairspray, is wonderful. Where inside you did you find Edna?

Divine: Well, I'm a fat person, so I did go to many diet doctors and take diet pills. I guess I just remembered those things. It was more or less my own inspiration. Of course, I did have a mother -- I do have a mother and I love her very much -- but she did take diet pills in the 60s. I think a lot of mothers did. A lot of them still do; she stopped taking hers. I think it got to the point where a lot of women took them just because they could get all their housework done. It did enable them to speed up a little bit.

For the look, well, women in Baltimore still look like that a lot. The first day I was in costume in Baltimore, I walked down the street, right through the camera crew, right past John, as close as you are, and kept walking and nobody looked at me twice. I looked like just another housewife in the downtown Baltimore area.

RW: Have you ever gotten involved in gay politics?

Divine: Well, I think when you're an actor, you can't get too involved in politics or religion because you're bound to offend somebody. My job is not to offend, my job is to make people forget about all their problems for an hour and have a good time and laugh. I am very much into work for AIDS and, of course, I stick up for the gay community and do everything I can for the gay community. I always would, there's no question about that. I would not be like some other stars running around denying that I got my start in gay clubs, as certain female vocalists and actresses have done. You know, the fact that Liberace denied this until his death I found very shocking. He could have said something before he popped off; it wouldn't have done any harm for anybody then.

But I've been very involved in AIDS work. You can't spread yourself thin and take everything on at one time. I just did one for AIDS Action Baltimore, which is my hometown. Not that I think I'm Elizabeth Taylor, but I think she's been doing great things, too. [Taylor is chair of the American Foundation for AIDS Research, a large private fundraising organization]. I think it's fabulous that someone with that much clout and that kind of name should get that involved, because I've heard her speak and she says a lot of people are just like "shhhhhhh," you know, "don't get involved." They're so afraid of lending their name because they don't want to get mixed up in some gay mess. But as we all know now, it's not just a gay mess; it could kill anybody.

I still find it very shocking, and it makes me so angry, that this was just let go for such a long time before anything happened. It makes me think that they were they just trying to kill all the gay people. Is that what they thought was going to happen? Let's just get rid of all the queers and then we won't have any more problems, la dee da dee da da? I find it all so shocking; there just aren't words.

RW: Do you live alone?

Divine: Yes.

RW: Not even a dog or cat?

Divine: I had dogs but I just gave them away because I'm not home very much and I didn't think it was very fair for them to be in and out of the kennels and staying with different people all the time. And then I found out that one of the housekeepers I had was beating them everyday with a broom. So I had to fire the housekeeper and now I'm suing because I want something done; that person should be punished. You just don't go around abusing anyone, especially an animal who is now scared to death every time you take the broom out of the closet. I don't understand cruelty and it really enrages me.

RW: What do you do when you're not working? Do you have hobbies?

Divine: Well, I collect china. I have enough china for a sit-down dinner for about 180 people, 12 courses. I just had to build extra cabinets in my house to accommodate it. Now I'm starting to give it away for gifts. I shop. I can shop for just about anything. When I have a week off now and then, I like to do as much of nothing as possible. I like to have no schedule because I'm usually on a schedule all day every day. Once a year I take a month off. I have a place in Ibiza, Spain. I like to go sit there for a month. A different group of friends fly in every week; the other ones leave and new ones come, so my friends can have a vacation there with me because, what fun is it to have a house in Spain if you're going to sit there by yourself?

I go to movies. I love very macho movies -- Charles Bronson. I watched Death Wish III last night. Not that I want things to be like that or anything, but it just fascinates me for some reason. Sylvester Stallone movies, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Chuck Norris. Of course, A Room With a View I thought was a beautiful movie; I can appreciate that too.

RW: Is there anybody you'd really like to work with?

Divine: A lot of the Italian directors I'd love to work with; they're have such keen minds. Elizabeth Taylor has always been my idol; she seemed to be the epitome of the American movie star, the way she looked and her whole lifestyle. Lana Turner I'd love to work with. I always loved Lana. Rock Hudson was always one of my favorite actors. Warren Beatty I've always liked in the movies.

RW: Since you often play women in films, do you find that you can walk down the street as a man unrecognized, still sneak around and enjoy life without being followed?

Divine: I could until I started doing talk shows and things out of costume, and that sort of ruined all that for me, but I had to do that because I was being labeled a transvestite all the time. If I was a transvestite, I'd be sitting here with a polka-dot blouse on, a crocodile bag, a little hat and a pair of slingback shoes, which I do have on underneath these clothes (he laughs). No, those are my work clothes, which I keep in a box until it's time to put them on and do my job, which is to entertain. When I do go out walking around, well, you don't go out and do that unless you're ready, because people will come up to you and will talk to you and will take your time and ask you to sign autographs.

But these are the very people who do buy tickets and do make you a star or whatever you want to call it -- a personality or a celebrity. So, you do owe this time to them. You've got to be ready to take that on once you set yourself out into the public. Or you can stay home all the time.

RW: When I come to your show tonight, I'm going to meet a very different person than the one I met this afternoon?

Divine: I think quite different, yes. Five hundred percent different. It just comes with the territory. When I'm done up or dressed up, it seems to just sweep over me.

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Female Trouble - Retarded

confetta — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:54:45 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AtRv3HawMo

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Female Trouble - Deleted Scene ("Dawn's Hair") on You Tube!!

confetta — Sun, 08 Apr 2007 18:52:16 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRjbdPYJysY

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Johnny Depp?

confetta — Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:39:13 GMT

Any Thoughts...?

~confetta

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New CD - A Date With John Waters

luminous_ferret — Thu, 15 Feb 2007 15:44:23 GMT

http://newlinerecords.com/pages/johnwatersdate/johnwatersdate.htm

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This Filthy World

bunniculux — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 05:43:47 GMT

The Pope of Puke in a one-man standup show taped during one of his college lecture circuit tours. Well, not so much standup as JW telling amusing anecdotes in his usual droll and witty conversational way (most of which I gather members of this Tribe will already have heard or read about, but it's nice to have the man tell it to ya like at a dinner party). Available for rental or Netflix now. And be sure not to miss the Q&A in the bonus materials section.

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Commentary: Why John Waters Loves Christmas

confetta — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 20:25:09 GMT

A paean to Christmas by filmmaker John Waters, who counts this holiday among his many obsessions.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1558280

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trailer female trouble

confetta — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:40:21 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqqRC8DX4KY

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10/19 Happy Birthday Divine

Fri, 20 Oct 2006 09:40:33 GMT

Harris Glenn Milstead (October 19, 1945 – March 7, 1988) was best known for his drag persona, Divine.

Early life

Born in Towson, Maryland to Bernard and Diana Frances Milstead, at the age of 12 the family moved to Lutherville, a suburb of Baltimore. John Waters was a childhood friend who lived six houses down the street.

Film career

Milstead starred in a number of films and was part of the regular cast known as the Dreamlanders. The Dreamlanders appeared in many of John Waters' earlier works such as Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Polyester, and Hairspray. Repeating their successful pairing in Polyester, in 1985 Divine appeared opposite Tab Hunter in their bigger hit Lust in the Dust.

He is also remembered as a major character in the documentary homage Divine Trash by Steve Yeager, covering the life and work of John Waters.

In the 1980s, Milstead's dance-music records were hits through America, Europe, and Australia. The typical progressive type of synthesizer disco music was composed, created, performed and produced by Bobby Orlando. In Britain his Stock, Aitken and Waterman record "You Think You're A Man" was his most successful hit, reaching #16.

In 1988, the British film The Fruit Machine (1988), a/k/a Wonderland (USA), utilized Milstead's songs in a nightclub disco dance sequence that showcased an early Robbie Coltrane in drag as "Annabelle", the club's owner (a cross between Divine and Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz).

Late in his career, Milstead also played in non-drag roles in his last three films: Trouble in Mind, Hairspray, and Out of the Dark. In Hairspray he played two roles, one male and one female (which he had first done in the earlier Female Trouble).

Sudden death

In 1988, Milstead was chosen to portray the dual character of Peggy Bundy's Mother and her Uncle Otto on the new FOX prime-time series Married With Children. Quite unexpectedly, he died at age 42 from sleep apnea in Los Angeles, California. The cause was attributed to his obesity. The producers of Married With Children sent flowers to the funeral, along with a humorous card that read, "If you didn't want to do the show, you could have just SAID something!"

His funeral in Towson, Maryland was preceded by a funeral procession attended by thousands.

Filmography
· Roman Candles (1966)
· Eat Your Makeup (1968)
· The Diane Linkletter Story (1969)
· Mondo Trasho (1969)
· Multiple Maniacs (1970)
· Pink Flamingos (1972)
· Female Trouble (1974)
· Underground and Emigrants (1976) (documentary)
· Tally Brown, New York (1979) (documentary)
· The Alternative Miss World (1980) (documentary)
· Polyester (1981)
· Lust in the Dust (1984)
· I Wanna Be a Beauty Queen (1985) (documentary)
· Divine Waters (1985) (documentary)
· Trouble in Mind (1985)
· The Fruit Machine, a/k/a Wonderland (USA), (1988) (soundtrack)
· Hairspray (1988)
· Out of the Dark (1989)

Trivia
According to "The Making of The Little Mermaid" documentary included on the 2006 re-release of Disney film The Little Mermaid, Divine was in part the inspiration for the design of the character Ursula the Sea Witch.

Divine at IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001145/

The Divine Page
http://www.dreamlandnews.com/divine/

Divine at Yahoo
http://music.yahoo.com/ar-312820

The Divine Worshipeprs Tribe
http://divinelove.tribe.net/

The Wonderful World of John Waters
http://divinewaters.tribe.net/

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"Pink Flamingos" - Miss Edie

confetta — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:30:31 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qwBOaeKKNM&mode=related&search=

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John Waters' "Mondo Trasho" - Final Scene

confetta — Mon, 14 Aug 2006 17:38:47 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahLnnIGbZU4&mode=related&search=

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PLAGUES and PLEASURES on the SALTON SEA returns to the Red Vic; 8/1-8/3

Chris — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:27:04 GMT

Hey folks.

After being on the road for the past 3 months shooting and editing my new doc on the band FISHBONE, I'm back in Fog City, USA and ready to again rock the Red Vic Moviehouse on Haight Street, as our documentary, PLAGUES & PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA, has been invited for a return enagement this Tuesday - 8/1, Wednesday - 8/2, and Thursday - 8/3.

Yes, it's another one of those e-mails, as our little film is fast becoming a cult hit on the festival and theatrical scene. Heck, we're at 25 Best Documentary Awards and counting, so we want you to come out and join in the fun of a movie and beers on Haight Street. Or if you're busy, have seen the film, or just whatever, invite your friends, neighbors, and strangers to come on out. I know, I know, this is a lot of shameless self-promotion from me, a supposedly humble person, but I'm looking to have some fun up on Haight Street and help my favorite movie theater sell some popcorn, so what else am I going to do but throw the invite out to you all.

Keep on truckin'.

Chris

P.S. - Per usual, all the pertinent info is down below.

RED VIC MOVIE HOUSE
1727 Haight St.
San Francisco, CA 94117
415.668.8999
http://www.redvicmoviehouse.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
contact: metzler@rocketmail.com

Return Engagement:

PLAGUES AND PLEASURES ON THE SALTON SEA
Tuesday Aug. 1 - Thursday Aug. 3

Showtimes: Tues & Thurs: 7:15, 9:15; Wed: 2:00, 7:15, 9:15

http://www.saltonseadoc.com

"Weird and wonderful." - The New Times

"Historically thorough and thoroughly hysterical." - L.A. Weekly

Dirs. Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer US 2005 (video: 71 min.)

Plagues and Pleasures is a feature documentary directed by Chris Metzler & Jeff Springer, with narration by legendary counterculture filmmaker John Waters and music by the southwestern, alt-rock supergroup, Friends of Dean Martinez.

Once known as the California Riviera, the Salton Sea is now called one of America's worst ecological disasters: a fetid, stagnant, salty lake, coughing up dead fish and birds by the thousands. Yet a few hardy eccentrics hang on to hope, including a roadside nudist waving at passing European tourists, a man building a religious mountain out of mud and paint, beer-loving Hungarian Revolutionary Hunky Daddy, and the real-estate Ronald McDonald known simply as The Landman. Through their perceptions and misconceptions, the strange history and unexpected beauty of the Salton Sea is revealed.

Plays with short, LSD-A-GO-GO (Dir. Scott Calonico, 10 min.)

Director Chris Metzler will be present at evening screenings for Q&A.

Showtimes: Tues & Thurs: 7:15, 9:15; Wed: 2:00, 7:15, 9:15

Tickets: $8 for evening screenings, $6 for 2:00 matinees, $4 for seniors and children at all times. Tickets go on sale 20 minutes before each screening at the Red Vic box office.

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Mink Stole concert in San Francisco

larrybob — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 20:19:07 GMT

Thursday July 27, doors 8 pm show 9 pm: Mink Stole and her band,
Kristian Hoffman, and Peaches Christ.
$10 in advance, $12 at the door. 21+. At Cafe du Nord, 2170 Market St. at
Sanchez, San Francisco. http://www.cafedunord.com

Kristian Hoffman plays in Mink Stole's band, and also will do a solo set.
His most recent album of collaborations "&" is really good and has collaborators
including Russel Mael, Anna Waronker, Stew of The Negro Problem, Rufus Wainwright,
Abby Travis, Van Dyke Parks, El Vez, Michael Quercio, Paul Reubens, Ann
Magnuson, and Lydia Lunch. He wrote songs for Klaus Nomi and also was in The Mumps with Lance Loud.

http://www.minkstole.com
http://www.kristianhoffman.com
http://www.peacheschrist.com

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I'M SO BEAUTIFUL!!

confetta — Fri, 30 Jun 2006 18:20:41 GMT

Divine - I am so beautifull

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwh_yOzJ6AY&search=divine%21

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Divine!

mariamercedesgraboski — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 19:20:25 GMT

What a WONDERFUL person she was on film!

Loved her/him. Great ACTOR!!

Wish Divine was still alive!

Maria

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PussyCat A Go Go - scopitone

confetta — Mon, 05 Jun 2006 00:51:52 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ti7A8uXKI0&search=scopitone

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SF Waters Friends - Get On Board

cookiedough — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 18:41:47 GMT

Enter the 'EDIE THE EGG LADY' Contest
Envelope your inner child while eating eggs
and reciting famous Edith Massey dialogue-
PLAYPEN PROVIDED!!!
Win DVD's & EGGS!!!

Saturday, June 10th
The Monster Show with Cookie Dough presents:
'Think Pink! We've Got Female Trouble'
A Pride Tribute To John Waters
with co-hostess Trauma Flintstone
Harvey's Bar - 500 Castro St. @ 18th
415-431-4278
Killer Drag Show 11pm - Doors at 9:30
$6.00 - 21+ w/ID
DJ MC2 spinning 'divine' tunes at 9:30pm

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Neauuuuuuuuu SmeauuuuuuuuuuKinG ?

confetta — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:45:42 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnpofBtijF8

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Neauuuuuuuuuuu Smeauking trailer!

confetta — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 19:43:04 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnpofBtijF8

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More Reasons to VISIT BALTIMOOOOOORE........

confetta — Thu, 06 Apr 2006 18:37:52 GMT

http://www.atomicbooks.com/page.php?ep=74&cat=74

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A Dirty Shame

Thu, 06 Apr 2006 01:22:59 GMT

I just watched it this week.

I didnt want to like it because of Johnny KNoxville

But ended up enjoying it. Tracey Ullman was great

"GGRRRR"

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Dreamland News

confetta — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 22:59:53 GMT

Dreamland News
February 2006

John Waters new series of films for HereTV, Movies that Will Corrupt You, begins Friday, February 3 with FUEGO, a film by Armando Bo from 1969 about Laura, a seemingly insatiable woman whose sexual desire is running out of control. As you can see from the picture, Laura and Dawn Davenport may have been separated at birth!

Here's an update of the other films that were selected by John for the series: L.I.E., Irreversible, Baxter, Porn Theatre, Clean, Shaven, Pink Narcissus, The Hours and Times, Freeway, Beefcake, Criminal Lovers, The Fluffer, Dottie Gets Spanked, and Sissy Boy Slap Party.

And there's a great interview with John about the series in Gay City News:
http://www.gaycitynews.com/gcn_505/whenjohnwaters.html

> Visit http://www.heretv.com/

~From:Dreamland News, February 2006
http://www.dreamlandnews.com/news/index.shtml

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Movies that will Corrupt You...

confetta — Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:43:04 GMT

"we're gonna push the envelope until we all get paper-cuts!"

John Waters Presents Movies that will Corrupt You

click the trailer, sailor!
http://www.heretv.com/AOriginalsDetailPage.php?programKey=388

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John Waters Xmas Special

heather_z — Sun, 04 Dec 2005 17:34:39 GMT

There's a "Very John Waters Xmas" thing coming to Portland. It's not cheap & it's in a small venue. I keep calling the place to find out if John Waters is actually going to be there, but they only have a recording that doesn't offer any info. Can anyone shed some light on this situation for me. The tickets are around 50 bucks! I don't want to shell out the cash unless he's going to be there in the flesh!

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Film of Hairspray Musical in the Works

azlee — Tue, 03 Jan 2006 05:36:22 GMT

The only problem so far is John Travolta as Edna!??! YIKES!

From http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=11373

Adam Shankman Set to Helm Hairspray
Source: Variety
September 29, 2005

New Line Cinema has set Adam Shankman to direct and choreograph Hairspray, the screen adaptation of the Broadway musical, reports Variety. Craig Zadan and Neil Meron are producing.

Shankman, who's finishing Cheaper by the Dozen 2 for 20th Century Fox, will begin working immediately with screenwriter Leslie Dixon and lyricist-composers Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, the Tony-winning team that wrote the "Hairspray" score. Production will begin early next year in Baltimore, for a summer 2007 release.

The trade adds that John Travolta is expected to play Edna Turnblad, the role Harvey Fierstein originated onstage. The involvement of Shankman, who directed Bringing Down the House, makes Queen Latifah an instant front-runner for the role of Motormouth Maybelle.

Original choreographer Jerry Mitchell and stage director Jack O'Brien were originally attached to co-direct. The job was also offered to Chicago director Rob Marshall, who passed.

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John narrates documentary....

matt — Mon, 02 Jan 2006 20:28:36 GMT

Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Chris Metzler in Person. Narrated by John Waters, this documentary dives into Southern California's Salton Sea to explore the ecology, history, and culture that have developed around this saline sinkhole. Variety called it “jaunty and fun . . . with a cast of colorful locals who make the residents of Vernon, Florida seem normal.” With short Dimmer.

it'll be playing at the pacific film archive in berkeley in feb.

here's the direct link to the pfa's page for the film:

http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/FMPro?-db=WebDB.fp5&-Token=CW11001649&-Token.2=weird&-Token.3=CW11001643&-format=currentfilmnote.html&-error=error.html&-lay=WebForm&-find

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Interview in BUTT Magazine!

confetta — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 18:49:28 GMT

Interview by Wolfgang Tillmans!

http://www.buttmagazine.com/Issues/13_johnwaters.html

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I just added a pic I found today...

mariamercedesgraboski — Mon, 28 Nov 2005 20:51:28 GMT

Is that Melanie Griffith bound in film?

If so, I never knew she had THAT body...

Maria

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THE BALTIMORE ACCENT!

mariamercedesgraboski — Sun, 27 Nov 2005 23:25:47 GMT

I love it!

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Divine Trash!!! What a revelation!

mariamercedesgraboski — Sat, 26 Nov 2005 21:04:32 GMT

The movie Divine Trash was AWESOME!!!

I had no idea John Waters had long hair and was so F'ing cool when he was young.

I have a crush on the young John Waters.

Maria

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A Dirty Shame

otto_0 — Mon, 17 Oct 2005 03:26:59 GMT

I just finished watching A Dirty Shame -- it was nice to have a return to the hysterical stuff that makes his flicks great. After Cecil B, I wasnt so sure...

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HEY, WHO asked if I had "IN BAD TASTE" ???

confetta — Sat, 15 Oct 2005 00:07:08 GMT

I FINALLY FOUND IT!

EMAIL ME....

SORRY IT TOOK SO VERY LONG!!!

cc

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Did you ever MEET John Waters??

confetta — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 02:05:21 GMT

WELL??

DID YOU?

TeLL!

Confetta

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fans of SPUN

Sun, 17 Jul 2005 21:21:03 GMT

GALAXIE PICTURES is currently developing 'Unfiltered', the directorial debut for Creighton Vero, screenwriter of the indie cult hit 'Spun'.

For more information contact: pete@galaxie-pictures.com

SYNOPSIS:

Teenage Sherri, a new arrival to Lake Charles, Louisiana, gets a rude awakening as the locals give her a slice of real Southern hospitality, small town style. Included in her Lake Charles initiation are some hard lessons on friendship, family, and bigotry—not the kind made of ephemeral remarks and incidental ostracizing of outsiders, but real and vicious institutional racism, the kind that ends in murder.

Sherri arrives as the locals prepare for the funeral of Mary, the town’s Contraband Days Celebration Queen. With her death begins the shattering of the perfect picture of southern hospitality that she represents. Grieving is glossed over in favor of panic about the town’s quickly evaporating marijuana supply. What’s really died is the smiling welcoming south, and its warmth and hospitality are quickly replaced by a rapid growth of weeds.

Then the ensemble cast of Unfiltered gradually unwinds into a hard picture of gritty southern life as facades of tolerance gradually peel / crumble away. What’s revealed is the stuff that’s usually swept under the carpet.

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JOHN WATERS at The Warhol Museum!!

confetta — Fri, 15 Jul 2005 04:23:27 GMT

The Andy Warhol Museum
117 Sandusky Street
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15212-5890
USA
www.warhol.org/

Has anyone BEEN to the ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM...if so WHEN and WHAT DID YOU SEE??

DO TeLL!

yrs.
confetta

John Waters: Change of Life
Through September 4, 2005

www.warhol.org/whats_on/exhibitions.html

As he has moved from the avant-garde margin to mainstream culture, John Waters has been a powerful, influential iconic figure in popular culture. Organized by Lisa Phillips and Marvin Heiferman for The New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City, Change of Life zeroes in on the cinematic mind of John Waters particularly focusing on the early works, both cinematic and still photography that became a basis for his entire career. Water's longevity as a cultural figure is based in his unique ability to tap into our most private attractions to the erotic, perverse, sleazy, and tasteless and harness them to the fictional and conceptual devices that drive both popular entertainment and art. The show will contain 76 photographic works along with five sculptural installations as well as the first showing of his early extraordinary underground films.

AND

John Waters Curates Andy’s “Porn”
Through August 28, 2005

Drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, the artworks, photographs, videos, films and archival material in this small exhibition have been personally selected by Waters in an effort to explore the influence of sexual images on Andy Warhol’s life and work as well as the ever-evolving societal definition of pornography.

SUMMER FILM SERIES:
Films That Corrupted John Waters

www.warhol.org/whats_on/programs.html

Selected by John Waters himself, the rare and sometimes extreme films in the series will be screened in The Warhol theater in 35 mm. Tickets to all films are $5, available day of show. For Good Fridays showings, the price includes Museum admission.

Good Fridays, Friday, July 1, 8:00 pm
Saturday, July 2, 3:00 pm
Wise Blood (USA, W. Germany, 1979) 108 min.
Directed by John Huston. Based on the novel by Flannery O’Connor. With Brad Dourif, John Huston, Harry Dean Stanton, Amy Wright, Ned Beatty.

"It is so eccentric, so funny, so surprising, and so haunting that it is difficult to believe it is not the first film of some enfant terrible." - The New York Times

Good Fridays, Friday, July 8, 8:00 pm
Saturday, July 9, 3:00 pm
Boom! (United Kingdom, 1968) 110 min.
Directed by Joseph Losey. Written by Tenessee Williams. With Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noel Coward, Joanna Shimkus, Michael Dunn. Print graciously donated by Stephen Rebello.

This rarely-seen, legendary 1968 film, based on a Tennessee Williams play, stars Elizabeth Taylor as Sissie Goforth, the richest woman in the world and Richard Burton as her gigolo. “It is the ultimate drag queen role…. Elizabeth Taylor's performance is just staggering. It really influenced Divine.” - John Waters

Good Fridays, Friday, July 15, 8:00 pm
Saturday, July 16, 3:00 pm
Fuego (Argentina, 1969) 81 min.
Directed Armando Bo. With Isabel Sarli.

“Armando Bo, who was the Russ Meyer of Argentina,…always starred his wife, Isabel Sarli, who I'm obsessed with. She looks like Divine in Female Trouble. (Actually, we made Divine look like her in Female Trouble) In Fuego, she plays a nymphomaniac.” - John Waters

Good Fridays, Friday, July 22, 8:00 pm
Saturday, July 23, 3:00 pm
Pink Narcissus (USA, 1971) 71 min.
Directed by James Bidgood. With Bobby Kendall, Charles Ludlam.

This lush film revolves around a beautiful, young man’s stylized psychedelic fantasies...mainly of himself with a nude Bobby Kendall.

Good Fridays, Friday, July 29, 8:00 pm
Saturday, July 30, 3:00 pm
You Better Watch Out! aka Christmas Evil (USA, 1980) 100 min.
***Director Lewis Jackson will be in attendance at both screenings!
With Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn, Diane Hull, Andy Fenwick, Joe Jamrog.

“No holiday family get-together is complete without…this true cinematic masterpiece ..about a man completely consumed by Christmas…. I wish I had kids. I'd make them watch it every year and if they didn't like it, they'd be punished.” - John Waters

Good Fridays, Friday, August 5, 8:00 pm
Saturday, August 6, 3:00 pm
Mandingo (USA, 1975) 127 min.
Directed by Richard Fleischer. With Perry King, James Mason, Susan George.

This film version of Kyle Onstott’s epically lurid sex-and-slavery page-turner features a stellar performance by Perry King, star of Andy Warhol’s Bad.

Good Fridays, Friday, August 12, 8:00 pm
Saturday, August 13, 3:00 pm
La Chatte à deux têtes (aka Porn Theater) (France, 2002) 90 min.
Directed by Jacques Nolot. With Vittoria Scognamiglio, Jacques Nolot, Sébastien Viala.

Behind the scenes of a porno cinema for straights, a cashier introduces a projectionist to a new lifestyle. “This hilarious, entertaining, and authentic film takes place entirely inside a Parisian porn theater.” - John Waters

Good Fridays, Friday, August 19, 8:00 pm
Saturday, August 20, 3:00 pm
Irréversible (France, 2002) 97 min.
Directed by Gaspar Noé. With Monica Bellucci, Vincent Cassel.

With a story told backward Irréversible “rips through boundaries in the passion of its performances…and its graphic exploration of sexual violence. Not to mention its surreal cinematography and aggressive sound design, which outrage sensibilities as audaciously as they provoke thought." - David Sterritt, The Christian Science Monitor

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CLeauZiN SHoP...

confetta — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 16:57:39 GMT

When I started this tribe
I was UnaWaRes of the
LIQUID EYELINER TRIBE...

It is a
REALLY
GREAT
TRIBE..
and I want you to
ALL JOIN IT NOW
if you have
not done so
already....

your
crusTy
MoDeRaTor
has-been

CoNFeTTa

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Lissen Up You Fuckers...

ferrarabrainpan — Tue, 14 Jun 2005 01:14:51 GMT

Check out this POTTY MOUTHS tribe, okay? Yeah, you heard right, Virginia, this ain't no ladies' tea room I'm talkin' about... You wanna soil your virgin ears, get your motherfuckin' ass over here now, we be cussin' like a truck drivah in this here tribe, right outta tha guttah, you down with that shit? Yeah, if you ain't then you can lick my arse, you cunt... http://pottymouth.tribe.net/

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first time

beaferreal — Wed, 08 Jun 2005 01:19:50 GMT

although i may have seen hairspray earlier in life -- i didn't 'discover' JW films until I was at a friends house 5/6 years ago...

watched 4/5 in a row through the night, after everyone went to sleep...

when the sun came out, i walked outside, rewired. I sat and drank coffee, stared at a rock bluff, and wondered why the hell i had never seen these films before -- and wanted to buy a video camera immediatly.

still have not bought the camera -- but my brain is still f-ed

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I GOTTA FYI...

confetta — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 01:49:11 GMT

YeaH...

someone sent me a messege saying:

"FYI: There ALREADY IS a JOHN WATERS TRIBE."

WHAT??

WHAT???

I mean...REALLY!

I sent back kind of a
John Waters style
snoTTy Confetta
(which I found out is actually spelled "Concetta")

I said:

"WHO CARES if there is another JOHN WATERS TRIBE!

I should be running that TRIBE!

Everyone sez I'M the PRETTIEST!

GO ON!!

BEAT IT!!

GET THE HOOK!!"

I said that I thought the
MORE JOHN WATERS
TRIBES the BETTER!!

and I signed it,

EARL PETERSON

Now I am thinking
maybe I should
just focus on DAWN.

Maybe an EXCLuSiVE MEMBERSHIP eaaaaaaaaaauuuuuuuuNLy

DawN DaVeNPorT TRIBE
called PIGPORT
or
PRETTY PRETTY??
or EAT IT!! EAT IT!!

Is there a

TAFFY
TRiBE??

I was also
considering a
FEMALE
TROUBLE
TRIBE

but I got skeered
a bunch of
ANGRY PMS'ers
would JOIN
and wanna
KiCK my aSs!

Or WORSE!

Talk ad nauuuuuuuuuseauuuuuuuum
about menstruation,
HoT FLaSHeS
and TAMPONS!

(That might be cool too, actually.)

conFetta
"I got a KniFe
in my pocket
and I'm gunna
CUT YOU UP
after ClaYYuS!"

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Who is your FAVORITE CHARACTER from a JW film and WHY???

confetta — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 02:03:12 GMT

DO TELL!!

I get all torn up on this one...
I love Confetta of COURSE
she is just SO MeaN & SexY!

GaToR is FAB!

EVERYONE LOVES TAFFY DAVENPORT, RIGHT??

I like the minow characters tooooooooooo...

Like WINK and BUTTERS...

and the PLASTIC SURGEON in FEMALE TROUBLE!
Where DID they GET him.

The school teacher KiCKs my aSs too!!

Ohhhhhhhhh

and the prudie in the classroom:

"Dawn Davenports eating a MEATBALL SANDWICH Right out in CLaSS!"

Oh and the snotty superb ChickLet
"It's JUST a skirt and Sweater!"

I gueSS you noticed that
FEMALE TROUBLE is my
FAVORITE John Waters FILM....

HANDS DOWN!

Okay....YOUR TURN!

EAT IT EAT IT!!!

Confetta

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Favorite John Waters FILM?

confetta — Sun, 05 Jun 2005 01:27:39 GMT

Mine is FEMALE TROUBLE.

HANDS DOWN!

c

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The Art of John Waters

archivist20 — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 20:11:09 GMT

Go here if you would like a peek of John Waters art work.

http://www.renabranstengallery.com/waters.html

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Pretty? PReTTY???

confetta — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 05:41:49 GMT

Meet

"THE GIRLS"

Fine Porcelain Plates by: John Waters

http://www.adoraporcelain.com/

Adora Porcelain proudly presents The Girls by John Waters. A limited edition series of three 10 1/4 inch plates featuring three mannequin busts transfigured through thickly applied make-up and elaborate wigs into the larger than life characters Tina, Kim and Kathy. An uncanny imitation of life is conveyed in the penetrating stare of their sparkling eyes, and each bust, distinctively styled, evokes a striking personality. These are the artist’s “friends,” who share his home in Baltimore. Known for his irreverent approach to cultural iconography, Waters regards the collectible plate as a perfect vehicle for sharing his personal sensibility with a wider, yet still peculiar audience.

kiSs
KiSs

AdoRa PoRCeLaNa

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Nice to see...

Daddy — Fri, 03 Jun 2005 22:20:22 GMT

so many likeminded peeps in one place... grew up in upper Fells Point in Baltimore myself... John's earliest works manage to capture that very special inbred Charm that is the city of o' B'more...

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tribes

robotv — Sat, 04 Jun 2005 00:28:34 GMT

Charm City
91 Members - Open Membership - updated 03/26/04
The filthiest Tribe on the Internet - puke eaters, cat burglars, degenerates, hog princesses and foot stompers especially welcome here. A space for all things Dreamland (John Waters, Divine, Edith Massey, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Mink Stole and the rest of the gang). Touch and feel, Crackers - touch and feel!!!
http://johnwaters.tribe.net

(oldest and largest JW tribe)

Liquid Eyeliner!!!
67 Members - Open Membership - updated 12/15/04
An online smoker's wall for fans of John Waters' classic trash opus "Female Trouble". Kick up your cha-cha heels and post away, kiddies.
http://sanfrancisco.tribe.net/tribe/18997eba-93b5-4ec0-ad7d-91d6e4f8f4d5

Kangaroo Court Is NOW In Session
81 Members - Moderated Membership - updated 04/01/05
This is a tribe for people who love films made by John Waters. especially ones featuring Divine, Mink Stole, Jean Hill and those other zany Balto cast members.
http://johnwatersoldies.tribe.net

Edith Massey - Egg Lady & Queen of Punk
3 Members - Open Membership - updated 05/10/05
The gentlest and most humble of all the John Waters actors. Edie, Smedie, Edie, hahaha.
http://edithmassey.tribe.net

The WONDERFUL WORLD of JOHN WATERS
8 Members - Open Membership - updated 06/03/05
John Waters

Source
John Waters, Filmmaker

* Born: 29 April 1946
* Birthplace: Baltimore, Maryland

John Waters, already well-known in his native Baltimore for his underground movies, ...
http://DivineWaters.tribe.net

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