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Crackpot, originally released in 1986, is John Waters' brilliantly entertaining litany of odd and fascinationg people, places and things. From Baltimore to Los Angeles, from William Castle to Pia Zadora, from the National Enquirer to Ronald Reagan's colon, Waters explores the depths of our culture. And he dispenses useful advice along the way: how not to make a movie, how to become famous (read: infamous), and of course, how to most effectively shock and make our nation's public laugh at the same time. Loaded with bonus features, this new special edition is guaranteed to leave you totally mental.
A hilariously filthy tale of sex, crime, and family dysfunction from the brilliantly twisted mind of John Waters, the legendary filmmaker and bestselling author of Mr. Know-It-All.
Marsha Sprinkle: Suitcase thief. Scammer. Master of disguise. Dogs and children hate her. Her own family wants her dead. She's smart, she's desperate, she's disturbed, and she's on the run with a big chip on her shoulder. They call her "Liarmouth" - until one insane man makes her tell the truth.
John Waters's first novel, Liarmouth, is a perfectly perverted "feel-bad romance," and the reader will thrill to hop aboard this delirious road trip of riotous revenge.
In 1998, TASCHEN introduced the world to the masterful art of Touko
Laaksonen with The Art of Pleasure. Prior to that, Laaksonen,
better known as Tom of Finland, enjoyed an intense cult following
in the international gay community but was largely unknown to a
broader audience. In 2009, TASCHEN followed up with the ultimate
Tom overview: Tom of Finland XXL, a beautiful big collector's
edition with over 1,000 images, covering six decades of the
artist's career. The work was gathered from collections across the
United States and Europe with the help of the Tom of Finland
Foundation, featuring many drawings, paintings, and sketches never
previously reproduced. Other images had only been seen out of
context and were finally presented in the sequential order Tom
intended for full artistic appreciation and erotic impact. The
elegant oversized volume showed the full range of Tom's talent,
from sensitive portraits to frank sexual pleasure to tender
expressions of love and haunting tributes to young men struck down
by AIDS, and was completed by eight commissioned essays on Tom's
social and personal impact by Camille Paglia, John Waters,
Armistead Maupin, Todd Oldham, and others, plus a scholarly
analysis of individual drawings by art historian Edward
Lucie-Smith. The only thing missing from Tom of Finland XXL was a
widely affordable price tag-until now. The new Tom of Finland XXL
is still big enough to work your biceps, and includes all of the
original content, but costs a fraction of the original price.
You're welcome.
Cookie Mueller (1949-1989) was a firecracker, a cult figure, a wild
child, a writer, a go-go dancer, a mother and a queer icon. A child
of suburban 1950s Maryland, she made her name first as an actress
in the films of John Waters, and then as an art critic and
columnist, a writer of hilarious stories and a maven of New York's
downtown art world. "Edgewise" tells the story of Cookie's life
through an oral history composed of more than 80 interviews with
the people who knew her, including John Waters, Mink Stole, Gary
Indiana, Sharon Niesp, Max Mueller, Linda Yablonsky, Richard Hell,
Amos Poe and Raymond Foye. The contributors take us from the
late-1960s artist communes of Baltimore to 1970s Provincetown and
New York, through 1980s Berlin and Positano. Along with the text,
"Edgewise" includes artwork, unpublished photographs and archival
material and photography by Philip-Lorca diCorcia, David Armstrong,
Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar and others.
To me, bad taste is what entertainment is all about. If someone
vomits watching one of my films, it's like getting a standing
ovation. Thus begins John Waters's autobiography. And what a story
it is. Opening with his upbringing in Baltimore ("Charm City" as
dubbed by the tourist board; the "hairdo capital of the world" as
dubbed by Waters), it covers his friendship with his muse and
leading lady, Divine, detailed accounts of how Waters made his
first movies, stories of the circle of friends/actors he used in
these films, and finally the "sort-of fame" he achieves in America.
Complementing the text are dozens of fabulous old photographs of
Waters and crew. Here is a true love letter from a legendary
filmmaker to his friends, family, and fans.
Here, from the incomparable John Waters, is a paean to the power
of subversive inspiration that will delight, amuse, enrich--and
happily horrify--readers everywhere.
" "
"Role Models "is, in fact, a self-portrait told through intimate
profiles of favorite personalities--some famous, some unknown, some
criminal, some surprisingly middle of the road. From Esther Martin,
owner of the scariest bar in Baltimore, to the playwright Tennessee
Williams; from the atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair to the
insane martyr Saint Catherine of Siena; from the English novelist
Denton Welch to the timelessly appealing singer Johnny
Mathis--these are the extreme figures who helped the author form
his own brand of neurotic happiness.
" "
"Role Models "is a personal invitation into one of the most
unique, perverse, and hilarious artistic minds of our time.
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John Waters: Pope of Trash
John Waters, Jenny He, Dara Jaffe; Foreword by Jacqueline Stewart; Interview of Barry Jenkins, …
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No one knows more about everything - especially everything rude,
clever, and offensively compelling - than John Waters. The man in
the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie
classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, the original Hairspray,
Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world's great
sophisticates, and in Mr. Know-It-All he serves it up raw: how to
fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste from Nervous
Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that
no one but you would dare live in it; more important, how to tell
someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes, how to cheat
death itself. Through it all, Waters swears by one undeniable
truth: "Whatever you might have heard, there is absolutely no
downside to being famous. None at all." Studded with cameos of
Waters's stars, from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp, Kathleen
Turner, Patricia Hearst, and Tracey Ullman, and illustrated with
unseen photos from Waters's personal collection, Mr. Know-It-All is
Waters's most hypnotically readable, upsetting, revelatory book -
another instant Waters classic. 'Waters doesn't kowtow to the
received wisdom, he flips it the bird . . . [Waters] has the
ability to show humanity at its most ridiculous and make that funny
rather than repellent' Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
'Carsick becomes a portrait not just of America's desolate freeway
nodes - though they're brilliantly evoked - but of American fame
itself' Lawrence Osborne, The New York Times Book Review
No one knows more about everything - especially everything rude,
clever, and offensively compelling - than John Waters. The man in
the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie
classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, the original Hairspray,
Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world's great
sophisticates, and in Mr. Know-It-All he serves it up raw: how to
fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste from Nervous
Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that
no one but you would dare live in it; more important, how to tell
someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes, how to cheat
death itself. Through it all, Waters swears by one undeniable
truth: "Whatever you might have heard, there is absolutely no
downside to being famous. None at all." Studded with cameos of
Waters's stars, from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp, Kathleen
Turner, Patricia Hearst, and Tracey Ullman, and illustrated with
unseen photos from Waters's personal collection, Mr. Know-It-All is
Waters's most hypnotically readable, upsetting, revelatory book -
another instant Waters classic. 'Waters doesn't kowtow to the
received wisdom, he flips it the bird . . . [Waters] has the
ability to show humanity at its most ridiculous and make that funny
rather than repellent' Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post
'Carsick becomes a portrait not just of America's desolate freeway
nodes - though they're brilliantly evoked - but of American fame
itself' Lawrence Osborne, The New York Times Book Review
As we rush toward the end of Peanuts' second full decade, Snoopy
finds himself almost completely engrossed in his persona as the
World War I Flying Ace. Still, Snoopy looms large, so this volume
(a particularly Snoopy-heavy one) sees him arm-wrestling Lucy as
the "Masked Marvel" and then taking off for Petaluma for the
national arm-wrestling championship; impersonating a vulture and a
"Cheshire Beagle"; enjoying golf and hockey; attempting a jaunt to
France for an ice-skating championship; running for office on the
"Paw" ticket; being traded to Peppermint Patty's baseball team,
then un-traded and installed as team manager by a guilt-ridden
Charlie Brown; as well as dealing with the return of his original
owner, Lila. Peppermint Patty, working toward her ascendancy as one
of the major Peanuts players in the 1970s and 1980s, also has
several major turns, including a storyline in which she's the tent
monitor for three little girls (who call her "Sir" - a joke Schulz
would pick up later with Peppermint Patty's friend Marcie). Linus's
flippant comment to his Gramma that he'll kick his blanket habit
when she kicks her smoking habit backfires; Lucy bullies Linus,
pesters Schroeder, and organizes a "crab-in"; plus Charlie Brown
copes with Valentine's Day depression, the Little Red-Haired Girl,
the increasingly malevolent kite-eating tree, and baseball losses.
In other words: Vintage Peanuts! All this, plus an introduction by
beloved transgressive filmmaker John Waters and award-winning
design by Seth.
John Waters is putting his life on the line. Armed with wit, a
pencil-thin moustache, and a cardboard sign that reads 'I'm Not
Psycho', he hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San
Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers. But who
should we be more worried about, the delicate film director with
genteel manners or the unsuspecting travelers transporting the Pope
of Trash? Along the way, Waters fantasizes about the best and worst
possible scenarios: a friendly drug dealer hands over piles of cash
to finance films with no questions asked, a demolition-derby driver
makes a filthy sexual request in the middle of a race, a gun-toting
drunk terrorizes and holds him hostage, and a Kansas vice squad
entraps and throws him in jail. So what really happens when this
cult legend sticks out his thumb and faces the open road? Laced
with subversive humour and warm intelligence, Carsick is an
unforgettable ride with a wickedly funny companion - and a
celebration of America's weird, astonishing, and generous citizens.
Role Models is a wild and witty self-portrait of John Waters,
America's 'Pope of Trash', told through intimate profiles of his
favourite personalities - some famous, some unknown, some criminal,
some surprisingly middle of the road. From Esther Martin, owner of
the scariest bar in Baltimore, to the playwright Tennessee
Williams; from the atheist leader Madalyn Murray O'Hair to the
insane martyr Saint Catherine of Siena; from the English novelist
Denton Welch to the timelessly appealing singer Johnny Mathis -
these are the extreme figures who helped John Waters form his own
brand of neurotic happiness. A paean to the power of subversive
inspiration that delights, amuses and happily horrifies in equal
measure...
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