(Little Richard is Waters' role model, Pee Wee Herman is mine!)
(I agree with Waters, Van Houten's parole/release is long overdue.)
(Comme de Garcon, the fashion line from designer Rei Kawakubo.)
(Artistic team Fischli/Weiss)
In addition to the role models represented in the videos above Waters also has chapters to devoted to hometown (Baltimore - of course!) characters, Tennessee Williams, "outsider" pornographer Bobby Garcia who filmed his sex contacts with hundreds of military men, and discusses some of his favorite writers including Ivy Compton-Burnett & Denton Welch (In Youth is Pleasure, a fabulous book).
I met, or saw, John Waters only twice. When I was nineteen or twenty we were the only patrons sitting at the bar at The Atlantis, a gay strip club literally (not figuratively) in the shadow of the Maryland State Penitentiary. I didn't have the chutzpah to speak to him. The other occasion was a Friday night at Club Charles, a favorite Waters watering hole. On that occasion it was too loud and crowded to say more than a few bland things to him about my admiration. Sigh
Role Models was published in hardback a few months ago by Farrar, Straus, & Giroux. It is widely available from all the usual places.
"How can anybody sit through the length of a film, especially a European film, and not have a cigarette?"
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