![]() ![]() ![]() You get to hear the nice things people say. So in a way you don’t like being celebrated? “No! I think it’s all delightful. “No critic would say that today because they’re too hip,” says Waters. Variety called it “one of the most vile, stupid and repulsive films ever made”. ![]() I wasn’t hated by the people I wanted to like my work – I was hated by the people it was bait for.” He’s thinking, no doubt, of films such as 1972’s Pink Flamingos which, after scenes featuring heroin-dealing, cop-murdering, masturbation, singing anuses and cannibalism, ends with the heroine (played by drag queen Divine) eating dogshit to prove that she’s the filthiest person in the world. They're extinct! So I had to bring them backĭid you like being hated? “I built a career out of it. So it’s nostalgia for being hated.” There's no crabs any more because young people don't have pubic hair. “People looked at my early pictures and called them the most disgusting things ever and now Hairspray” – his 1988 musical love letter to racial integration and his native Baltimore – “is being done at every school in Britain and America. ![]()
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