![]() ![]() “I had a wonderful time thinking her up,” he tells Rolling Stone. Now, the mustachioed misfit is taking on the concept of truth itself with his first novel, Liarmouth: A Feel-Bad Romance, about a compulsive liar named Marsha Sprinkle. They said, ‘How did you avoid getting canceled?'”įor nearly 60 years, Waters has violated the boundaries of good taste with satirical films like Hairspray and Pink Flamingos (recently rereleased by the Criterion Collection in honor of its 50th anniversary), and incisive books that take a closer look at America’s grimy underbelly. “I was explaining all this, and the audience starts laughing harder and harder. “I thought, ‘I did smoke, I’m 76 - I guess it is a fair question,'” he says on a call from his home in Provincetown, Massachusetts. ![]() ![]() But at a recent audience Q&A when someone asked him, “How did you avoid getting cancer?” he was flummoxed. Filmmaker John Waters, the proud “Pope of Trash,” is no stranger to weird questions. ![]()
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