![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His side businesses, at least, are flourishing. In fact, Waters has spent the last decade concentrating on his numerous other, more profitable careers: conceptual artist, public speaker, and author. And since it’s just a staged reading of a 43-year-old script, with bewigged children seated, Last Supper-style, behind a table, it barely qualifies as Waters’ “new movie.” The closest John Waters has come to directing a feature film since A Dirty Shame is Kiddie Flamingos: A John Waters Table Read, a sanitized, all-kid version of Pink Flamingos, and that only played as part of his Beverly Hills John exhibit at New York’s Marianne Boesky Gallery in early 2015. ![]() Waters has had gaps in his directing filmography before, including a seven-year drought between Polyester (1981) and Hairspray (1988) during the Reagan years, but nothing like this. John Waters, Baltimore’s infamous Pope of Trash and the auteur behind such rude comedies as Pink Flamingos (1972), Female Trouble (1974), and Desperate Living (1977), has not released a movie since 2004’s head-injury sex farce A Dirty Shame with Tracey Ullman and Johnny Knoxville. Divine and filmmaker John Waters on Februin New York City. ![]()
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