Category: John Waters & Underground Films

Divine (Harris Glen Milstead) grew up in Towson, Maryland about a mile north of the Baltimore City line. I used to deliver the Baltimore News-American to the Milstead family’s home two blocks away from my house. F.Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived for a while down the street from him in the early 1930s, until Zelda…

As a Werner Herzog fanatic, I discovered this hidden clip, from what is probably one of the least known films about Herzog, “On the Ecstasy of Ski-Flying: Werner Herzog in Conversation with Karen Beckman.” It is a must for anyone who admires Herzog’s frankness as a creative filmmaker and cultural commentator. The number of views…

John Waters’ restored MULTIPLE MANIACS released in UK this week.  THE GUARDIAN interviews John and reveals a few new things.   Read it here: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/feb/13/john-waters-on-multiple-maniacs-reissue

This picture appeared in my inbox this morning.  Stiv was a huge pleasure to work with on POLYESTER.  Always a lovely person and an actor with great ability and greater potential.  So sad he died so young– run over by a car in Paris. http://pleasekillme.com/cheetah-chrome-giving-a-sonic-reducer-guitar-lesson/

http://crocsandjorts.blogspot.com/2015/01/john-waters-and-edith-massey-at-mudd_10.html

Dwight Garner of the New York Times chimed in yesterday with a rather long review of “Carsick.”  He was lukewarm about it, saying that if you’re a Waters fan, you’ll appreciate it, but since only about half the book addresses the actual hitch-hiking experience, he felt mislead. The first part of the book consists of…

      In 1965, underground films meant jiggly dancing, abstract moving images, or Warholian still shots.   It would be one more year before John Waters was kicked out of NYU for smoking Pot, and six more before “Pink Flamingos” took New York City by storm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DS7knWefSiQ Walter Cronkite is astonished by the whole thing,…

Love this bizarre website from Japan.  Don’t know what it says, but they sure like Edith. Big Girls Edith Massey-動画連続再生 – sumi-f.com

This fascinating article in the Baltimore Sun paints a portrait of John’s mother that seems to be the exact opposite of John– well at least his art works, and especially his movies. Those who know John well, see many of his mother’s and father’s traits in him– the successful, sober businessman father, and the high-minded…