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Liarmouth: A feel-bad romance

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John Waters: Well, at one point it was going to be a movie but the only thing that was the same was that she was a suitcase thief.

I think it’s young people’s duty to think of a way to surprise, not even just me, but the generation just before them that thinks they’re cool. Featured here, the one and only Divine playing unrepentant, degenerate criminal Babs Johnson, defending the title of “filthiest person alive” in Waters' indelible 1972 feature, Pink Flamingos. In this case, the first persona we meet is Marsha Sprinkle, someone who is, if not despicable, then highly unprincipled; though my feelings about her changed as the story progresses. You’ve spoken a lot about your influences as a filmmaker in the past, who are your influences as a novelist? John Waters will be performing his new one-man show False Negative at London’s Barbican Hall on June 10.She practices lies as exercise just to see if she can get away with it, and sometimes when there’s absolutely no reason to do so, just to feel the afterglow of lying. That they could be such a minority, that they felt there were “bouncists”—people who hated bouncers. I started with an outline and the characters I initially pitched to my publisher, but it changed a lot over those years. In Carsick, the book I wrote about hitchhiking in America, the first two-thirds confused many people if they hadn’t read the introduction where I said I was going to imagine the worst rides I could end up with and then tell you the true rides.

He thought of crystalized violets coated with bright mauve sugar, and of European-made Turkish Delight dyed pink. I’ve not signed bottom surgery yet, especially not female-to-male, but I’ve signed vasectomy scars a lot. This month, Waters—a noted book collector and the author of two works of non-fiction— published his first novel, Liarmouth (subtitle: "A Feel-Bad Romance") which like many Waters projects is a little bit indescribable, a little bit off the rails, and often very funny. Lying is a big part of this book and is one of Marsha’s prime directives, as well as her “magical bliss”.Featuring misfit muses, tributes to his hometown of Baltimore and themes of fetish, obsession and celebrity culture, his renegade films—including Pink Flamingos (1972), Female Trouble (1974), Desperate Living (1977), Hairspray (1988), Serial Mom (1994) and A Dirty Shame (2004)—are irreverent, laugh-out-loud comedies that lovingly draw inspiration from William Castle, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, Andy Warhol and Pier Paolo Pasolini alike. I feel bad for young people though, they can’t be dirty, they can’t go out and have sex, what do they do? Marsha’s convinced there’s a pimp who controls the whole scene, putting the hungry “actors” through hair and makeup every morning, feeding them, giving them signs with well-written, heart-wrenching messages, handing them borrowed or rented real-life babies or skinny stray dogs for props and dropping them off every morning and picking them up every night before pocketing all the money. An homage to the death of blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield, the piece evokes a serial killers’ trophy or a beauty-queen catfight gone-wrong. Before parting ways, Waters arranged for Bidle to stay at his San Francisco apartment: "I thought, you know what, he wanted an adventure, too .

John Waters: Well, I’ve been on a book tour and then I was on the spoken word tour, I’ve been in about ten cities in the last two weeks and then the Calvin Klein campaign I just did came out, so I’ve been busy! In Waters' world, dysfunction is beautiful, degradation is powerful, and there's nothing to fear because the grotesque is proudly on display.Marsha Sprinkles is a thief,she's also hated by everyone apart from her partner in crime Daryl Hotchkins, who is obsessed with her and looking forward to clinching a rather unusual business agreement that Marsha has no intention of delivering on. They pull out of the driveway and glide through “Happy Hollow,” their ridiculously named development of McMansions. My candy-coloured memories are run through the projector of my mind so many times that they are almost in 3-D.

We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.Interview with Sean Baker, Debbie Harry, Barry Jenkins, Johnny Knoxville, Bruce LaBruce, Ricki Lake, Orville Peck, Iggy Pop, Cindy Sherman, Kathleen Turner, Christine Vachon, Edgar Wright. The three women all move in a northeast direction toward Provincetown in Cape Cod, where they plan to confront or kill one another.

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