FOF Archive - The Fellini of Freaks, John Waters - 07.26.05

Interview with John Waters, the legendary filmmaker about his latest film "A Dirty Shame" now out on DVD.

(Orginally posted on June 2005.) Listen to this juicy nugget of podcasting goodness as I talk with the "Fellini of Freaks" John Waters, about gay days at Disney World, strange candy products, Republicans co-opting his work, and why Waters thinks that Larry Kramer is the Bill Cosby of the Gay Community.

John Waters began his film career much like Johnny Knoxville, one of the stars of "A Dirty Shame" by having his friends perform outrageous stunts for the camera. Over the course of several decades, Waters has captured the very essence of American low-culture, by creating films that lovingly focus on outsiders, misfits, queers of all shapes and sizes.

One of his most notorious actors, Divine re-defined the entire genre of drag into an agressive, satirical and irreverent form. Divine's last film with Waters, Hairspray has been turned into a very successfull Broadway Musical which starred Harvey Fierstein in Divine's role as Edna Turnblad.

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