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Three of John Waters' most popular screenplays, for the first time in print, including an original introduction by Waters and more than 50 candid photos and film stills! With his outrageous, filthy humor and stinging social commentary, John Waters ranks as on of America's most influential filmmakers. His muse was Divine, a 300-pound actor who could turn your stomach in one scene and break your hear in the next. In Hairspray, a "pleasantly plump" teenager, played by Ricki Lake, and her big-hearted hairdresser mother, played by Divine, teach 1962 Baltimore about race relations by integrating a local TV dance show. Female Trouble is a coming-of-age story gone terribly awry: Dawn Davenport (again, Divine), progresses from loving schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer destined for the electric chair — all because her parents wouldn't buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas. In Multiple Maniacs, dubbed by Waters a "celluloid atrocity," the traveling sideshow "Lady Divine's Cavalcade of Perversions" is actually a front for a group of psychotic kidnappers, with Lady Divine herself the most vicious and depraved of all — but her life changes after she gets raped by a fifteen-foot lobster. |
