Hairspray. Cry-Baby. Serial Mom. Pink Flamingos.
Filmmaker John Waters has a long, illustrious, and unique body of work. 
He started making movies in the early 1960s, but only rose to prominence in the '70s, and by the '80s was a cultural icon.
I first met him in the fall of 1986.  He had just published a by collection of his writings, a slender little book called "Crackpot."

Hairspray. Cry-Baby. Serial Mom. Pink Flamingos. Filmmaker John Waters has a long, illustrious, and unique body of work. He started making movies in the early 1960s, but only rose to prominence in the '70s, and by the '80s was a cultural icon. I first met him in the fall of 1986. He had just published a by collection of his writings, a slender little book called "Crackpot."

Hairspray. Cry-Baby. Serial Mom. Pink Flamingos.
Filmmaker John Waters has a long, illustrious, and unique body of work.&nbsp;
He started making movies in the early 1960s, but only rose to prominence in the '70s, and by the '80s was a cultural icon.
I first met him in the fall of 1986. &nbsp;He had just published a by collection of his writings, a slender little book called "Crackpot."

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