He was a close friend of a judge I clerked for in Baltimore and gave the eulogy at her funeral, surrounded by her collection of skulls. It was amazing. The judge was a remarkable woman, and Waters did her justice.
About 10 years ago, I was taking an American Airlines flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles. I spotted JW immediately while in the waiting area but restrained myself from approaching him; I didn't want to freak him out or perhaps call unwanted attention to him among the other people who were in the room. But boarding the plane, I saw he had an aisle seat in the First Class section and I just couldn't walk by him without making a brief comment about how I much I admired him and his work (I quoted a Kathleen Turner line from "Serial Mom"). He chuckled and it really made my day!
I was on the train coming back to Philadelphia from the March on Washington in ‘93. Heading towards Baltimore JW walked down the car I was on. No one noticed him except myself. We exchanged smiles.
John Waters is a cinematic genius. His films are masterpieces, especially the early ones from the 70s and early 80s. I miss Divine, Miss Edie, Cookie Mueller, David Lochary, and all the other Dreamlanders that have passed so much.
@Bebtelovimab Trump is too ugly even for the Frankenstein monster, and the monster was never a dumba**. I'm waiting for the John Waters Story starring Steve Buscemi.
I saw Pink Flamingos when I was 18 and a freshman at UCLA in 1994. I had never seen a John Waters movie, and the they were showing it at the campus theater. All I knew was that it was supposed to be outrageous and hilarious. I was going with 3 friends and one of them had LSD, so we all took one hit. I’d only taken acid once before and it was a lot of fun with very few hallucinations. Well, the movie was so NUTS that I couldn’t tell if I was actually seeing the movie accurately, or the acid was just REALLY strong. It wasn’t until I rented the VHS of it that I realized I had seen it accurately.
John Waters is a legend. I first saw Female Trouble on Xmas evening on IFC at the age of 12, and i was forever changed. God bless John Waters, there's no one like him.
My first John Waters film was PINK FLAMINGOS at the Flick in Larimer Square in Denver. I think it was 1975. Everyone in the audience of around fifty laughed so hard and clapped and bounced to the music...and Divine! Wow, what a memory. I'm a fan for life, and have all of his films on DVD in my permanent library to enjoy over and over. Thank you, John, for bending my brain in a delightful way. And you're still going strong at 77! Again, WOW!
I met John Waters at a gallery in Atlanta many years ago when the whole gallery was devoted to his paintings and drawings. Approachable and delightful.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ thank you for this amazing interview!!!!!!!! I’m a Maryland gal not quite 60 and I connect to John water’s movies so much! He is the leaky roof in a pristine, perfect home! I just adore his approach to film making, creativity and people… he seems so humble and experienced and what feels like an all around great human!!!!! ❤❤❤ his work will continue the wheel of outsider filmmaking and he’s given us all so much to think about! Thank you Mr waters! You are magic! 🪄
What a wonderful interview of one of my favorite directors. My first John Waters film was Pink Flamingos at the old TLA Cinema on South Street in Philadelphia. They showed a 16mm print every Saturday night for a long time. Since then I’ve seen all of his films. Yes I’m a fan. I’ll be going to see this exhibition.
I had the pleasure of meeting John during one of his touring shows and had my picture taken with him afterwards. It's a shame we can't post pictures here, I'd gladly share it with everyone.
Odorama worked so well in Polyester. By the end of the movie your nose had collected all these awful smells, and then the final smell was Lemon Pledge, which was totally realistic because it was artificial to begin with. Genius.
IFC Center here in NY did a revival screening of Polyester a few years ago (before covid) which even had the scratch and sniff cards. John Waters introduced the screening, he is both hilarious and one of the most charming people you'd ever meet. It was a great night. So happy to see him getting this show for all the years of awesome movies.
I only barely knew of Ricki Lake from her talk show, and seeing her many years later in Hairspray was a revelation. What a lovable character, and actress.
I love Cry-Baby and I've always wanted to see Serial Mom! I've always thought John Waters was sooo cool and insightful and I'm so glad this exhibition exists.
very excited to hear that his first fiction novel is going to be turned into a film "Liarmouth".!! Was afraid that "A Dirty Shame" might be his last film work. Even though he always makes the very best of whatever budget he ends up with he's just one of those talents i keep hoping some benevolent billionaires will just give him all he needs to make anything he wants.
Jackaline You are sitting in Museum Row in Hancock Park. There is The big gun LACMA, the page Museum that is the satelite of The Natural History Museum in Exposition park. Also there is the Automobile Museum and Folk Art Museum. The area is rich with Museums. LACMA is the big gun in the neighborhood.
I loved the Buddy Deane Show but even back then I wondered why they had to have a special day just of the black kids and didn't just let everyone dance together all the time.
Lol...I love all these "I met him when..." comments. Well, I met him in Marfa, Texas, at a bonfire for local ranchers hosted by the Chinati Foundation. Go figure.😆
He 100% is gonna be voicing Rolando! The other two actors said to be coming to the show in the season 2 trailer, have already been filled in. Vassago will be voiced by Harvey Gullien and Satan will be voiced by Patrick Page. Leaving John Waters as being the only option for Rolando!
I remember taking mescaline and going with my best friend to see a midnight movie in the mid 1970s in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was Pink Flamingos. I was an impressionable 19 or 20 year old who had recently read a review in Penthouse magazine. It was an epiphany. A complete entertainment! There was something in it for every perversion! At first I thought it might have been the acid I had taken, but no, what I saw on the screen actually happened. I never had the chance to see the movie again in Cincinnati. When I returned to the theater less than a month later it had been turned into a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. I suspected this was because of the efforts of then City Attorney Simon Leis, who became famously known as the prosecutor who was a pain in the ass for Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt. Returning to Cincinnati after 45 years living in San Francisco and Seattle, (where I've attended several personal appearances by Mr. Waters over the years), apparently nothing much has changed here. Perhaps seeing Pink Flamingos in that time and place was a 'Divine' accident, indeed! 🦩🦩😘😂🎥🎬🏳️🌈❤.
John you made Polyester after Desperate Living, Hairspray came a decade after Desperate Living, not “right after” it. Such a shame when an auteur gets too old to remember the timeline of his own filmography.🤦♀️
Somewhere between Polyester and Hairspray, John lost his edge. I never liked Hairspray and musicals are nauseating. Serial Mom was okay. Imagine if Divine had played Kathleen Turner's part. It would have been way better.
Baltimore was an industrial city. The de industrialization of America had the same effect on Baltimore as Detroit, Cleveland, or Cincinnati. The states of ohio and Michigan aren’t in great shape. Maryland, where I live, is one of the most consistently democratic voting states in the country. Tied with New Jersey for the most millionaires per capita, and the two richest predominantly black counties in the US are both in Maryland. I live and work in Baltimore and I love it, I’m originally from south of DC, traveled the world in the military, traveled the country for pleasure. Baltimore is one of the few places that kept its uniqueness and authenticity. But there is also the fact that you leave the city in any direction and you are in some of the most affluent desirable places in the US. Baltimore hasn’t stopped pivoting, we have seen a significant reduction in crime, tech startups have been incentivized to come here, and they are currently selling million dollar town homes in canton and fells point, we have John Hopkins which is one of the best if not the best medical institutions in the world, and every weekend I can see a major league baseball game, a professional football game, or any number of live music or comedy performances. When people say things about how bad Baltimore is those of us that live here appreciate it, helps keep the riff raff out. Because the red states that encountered the same challenges we have are worse off in every metric. We were wise enough not to trade our right to collective bargaining for the right to own a machine gun, and the citizens focused on environmental clean up and community based art rather than starting a militia to combat the new world order or Illuminati or communists infiltration of our government 30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union.
@KyleShade Thanks. You've summed up blue states and the modern Democrat party perfectly: White liberal elites in their gated communities in the suburbs, and the dystopian inner cities. What do they have in common? They all vote for the same party.
He was a close friend of a judge I clerked for in Baltimore and gave the eulogy at her funeral, surrounded by her collection of skulls. It was amazing. The judge was a remarkable woman, and Waters did her justice.
About 10 years ago, I was taking an American Airlines flight from San Francisco to Los Angeles. I spotted JW immediately while in the waiting area but restrained myself from approaching him; I didn't want to freak him out or perhaps call unwanted attention to him among the other people who were in the room. But boarding the plane, I saw he had an aisle seat in the First Class section and I just couldn't walk by him without making a brief comment about how I much I admired him and his work (I quoted a Kathleen Turner line from "Serial Mom"). He chuckled and it really made my day!
I was on the train coming back to Philadelphia from the March on Washington in ‘93. Heading towards Baltimore JW walked down the car I was on. No one noticed him except myself. We exchanged smiles.
did you call him "pussyface"? lol
John Waters is a cinematic genius. His films are masterpieces, especially the early ones from the 70s and early 80s. I miss Divine, Miss Edie, Cookie Mueller, David Lochary, and all the other Dreamlanders that have passed so much.
@Bebtelovimab Trump is too ugly even for the Frankenstein monster, and the monster was never a dumba**. I'm waiting for the John Waters Story starring Steve Buscemi.
I saw Pink Flamingo aged 15 and it changed my life. I'm now approaching 60 and would recommend the film to anyone struggling with their identity.
That's amazing thank you for sharing your experience!!!
I saw Pink Flamingos when I was 18 and a freshman at UCLA in 1994. I had never seen a John Waters movie, and the they were showing it at the campus theater. All I knew was that it was supposed to be outrageous and hilarious. I was going with 3 friends and one of them had LSD, so we all took one hit. I’d only taken acid once before and it was a lot of fun with very few hallucinations. Well, the movie was so NUTS that I couldn’t tell if I was actually seeing the movie accurately, or the acid was just REALLY strong. It wasn’t until I rented the VHS of it that I realized I had seen it accurately.
You must have a very disturbed identity then
@@SomethingSomethingg you get no bitches then
I envy your experience.@@Mike-rk8px
John Waters is fantastic.
John Waters is a legend. I first saw Female Trouble on Xmas evening on IFC at the age of 12, and i was forever changed. God bless John Waters, there's no one like him.
My first John Waters film was PINK FLAMINGOS at the Flick in Larimer Square in Denver. I think it was 1975. Everyone in the audience of around fifty laughed so hard and clapped and bounced to the music...and Divine! Wow, what a memory. I'm a fan for life, and have all of his films on DVD in my permanent library to enjoy over and over. Thank you, John, for bending my brain in a delightful way. And you're still going strong at 77! Again, WOW!
I met John Waters at a gallery in Atlanta many years ago when the whole gallery was devoted to his paintings and drawings. Approachable and delightful.
John Waters is my favorite cinema exhibitionist!
I adore this human!
So smart, so gracious. John Waters is a national treasure. ❤
So great that TCM recognizes all categories of movies, even the less popular ones. LOVED THIS!!
Thank You, TCM
The G.O.A.T.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ thank you for this amazing interview!!!!!!!! I’m a Maryland gal not quite 60 and I connect to John water’s movies so much! He is the leaky roof in a pristine, perfect home! I just adore his approach to film making, creativity and people… he seems so humble and experienced and what feels like an all around great human!!!!! ❤❤❤ his work will continue the wheel of outsider filmmaking and he’s given us all so much to think about! Thank you Mr waters! You are magic! 🪄
What a wonderful interview of one of my favorite directors. My first John Waters film was Pink Flamingos at the old TLA Cinema on South Street in Philadelphia. They showed a 16mm print every Saturday night for a long time. Since then I’ve seen all of his films. Yes I’m a fan. I’ll be going to see this exhibition.
Visited the Museum last week... SUCH a gorgeous place... And John Waters' exhibit is WONDERFUL! Thanks, TCM for the interview!
A Dirty Shame changed my life for the better. Liberating!
I had the pleasure of meeting John during one of his touring shows and had my picture taken with him afterwards. It's a shame we can't post pictures here, I'd gladly share it with everyone.
Divine should have been nominated for an Oscar for ‘Hairspray’.
You know what? I’m glad he wasn’t. Because Divine, along with John Waters, are, were and always will be better than the Academy Awards!
He's such a cool guy. This was great fun. I've seen several of his movies. I love the older campy ones as well as Hairspray and Cry Baby. 😸
I still drink my tears 😢🫙
John Waters is a national treasure
Odorama worked so well in Polyester. By the end of the movie your nose had collected all these awful smells, and then the final smell was Lemon Pledge, which was totally realistic because it was artificial to begin with. Genius.
John Waters is a true class act. So glad to see him getting honors like this.
Many thanks to Ms. Stewart and Mr. Waters! 🎬
IFC Center here in NY did a revival screening of Polyester a few years ago (before covid) which even had the scratch and sniff cards. John Waters introduced the screening, he is both hilarious and one of the most charming people you'd ever meet. It was a great night. So happy to see him getting this show for all the years of awesome movies.
I would see him at a bar near the UM art school in Bmore. Somewhere around 1986. He was already famous.
Mount Royal Tavern.
Just a fantastic interview. Could have listened to John for another hour…or three.
nice interview, thanks!
“The Pope of Trash”. 💜
Absolute legend 💪🏻🏆 kind regards from New Zealand 🇳🇿🫶🏻
I only barely knew of Ricki Lake from her talk show, and seeing her many years later in Hairspray was a revelation. What a lovable character, and actress.
I worship him! He is a comedic genius.
The first John Waters movie I ever saw was "Polyester" in a theater in Baltimore now long gone. I even got an Odorama card, but I gave it away.
The ‘Uncle’ we all have & love
Divine and John are the best aunt and uncle to the strange kids
Thank you, John Waters! Thank you, DIVINE.
I wish Divine was still with us. Rest in Peace, Divine.
your book Shock Treatment got me through a difficult time in my life when I should have really had shock treatments, seriously
This is delightful. ❤❤❤
I love Cry-Baby and I've always wanted to see Serial Mom! I've always thought John Waters was sooo cool and insightful and I'm so glad this exhibition exists.
I love John Waters and his films.
What an insightful and excellent interview.
he's such a treasure ❤
very excited to hear that his first fiction novel is going to be turned into a film "Liarmouth".!! Was afraid that "A Dirty Shame" might be his last film work. Even though he always makes the very best of whatever budget he ends up with he's just one of those talents i keep hoping some benevolent billionaires will just give him all he needs to make anything he wants.
Love John waters!
Still have an original ODORAMA card, I keep it next to my VHS copy of polyester. John Waters is the most subversive filmmaker of all time, the best!
I have mine, too. It's in the fireproof safe with my birth certificate and the S&H green stamps
@@postmodernrecycler Be prepared that your birth certificate smells like No. 6 by now! It´s the one that lingers forever!
Still have mine, too.
Jackaline
You are sitting in Museum Row in Hancock Park.
There is The big gun LACMA, the page Museum that is the satelite of The Natural History Museum in Exposition park. Also there is the Automobile Museum and Folk Art Museum.
The area is rich with Museums. LACMA is the big gun in the neighborhood.
I loved the Buddy Deane Show but even back then I wondered why they had to have a special day just of the black kids and didn't just let everyone dance together all the time.
I love me some John Waters. One day, society won't take itself so seriously anymore and we can enjoy a new work of his.
love these interviews keep em coming !
The Diane Linkletter Story changed my life.
I adore this man.
What a joy!
Hey John, wonder if you got your copies of the Village Voice at Sherman's Bookstore at Mulberry & Park?
I would love to see an exhibition of only “Desperate Living” stuff and clothing from the movie!
Love him so much.
I love this man.
Love his work with Pink Floyd
Uh...yes... he's...multi-talented in that way...yes😅
Love him!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN.....!!!!!!!
That guy is a national treasure.
When John waters dies im going to save a vial of the tears I cry and never drink them.
The beautiful host, Jacqueline Stewart is a great interviewer.
I had that Bop magazine @ 12:23 🥰 I miss being a teen...
No Closed Captions? 🙃 Great interview tho! ❤
Can you please are Woodstock the movie on Turner Classic Movies one more time 0:42
i love john waters!!!
When is that exhibit over?
Love you John you big weirdo❤❤
I love him.
An American treasure
Love him
i really wanna meet him
My buddy Greg Gorman is best friends with him
🙏🏾🖤😎
Lol...I love all these "I met him when..." comments. Well, I met him in Marfa, Texas, at a bonfire for local ranchers hosted by the Chinati Foundation. Go figure.😆
Hes gonna be in Helluva Boss!!! Who? Probably beining the mew character, Ronaldo
He 100% is gonna be voicing Rolando! The other two actors said to be coming to the show in the season 2 trailer, have already been filled in. Vassago will be voiced by Harvey Gullien and Satan will be voiced by Patrick Page. Leaving John Waters as being the only option for Rolando!
I remember taking mescaline and going with my best friend to see a midnight movie in the mid 1970s in Cincinnati, Ohio. It was Pink Flamingos. I was an impressionable 19 or 20 year old who had recently read a review in Penthouse magazine. It was an epiphany. A complete entertainment! There was something in it for every perversion! At first I thought it might have been the acid I had taken, but no, what I saw on the screen actually happened. I never had the chance to see the movie again in Cincinnati. When I returned to the theater less than a month later it had been turned into a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant. I suspected this was because of the efforts of then City Attorney Simon Leis, who became famously known as the prosecutor who was a pain in the ass for Hustler Magazine publisher Larry Flynt.
Returning to Cincinnati after 45 years living in San Francisco and Seattle, (where I've attended several personal appearances by Mr. Waters over the years), apparently nothing much has changed here.
Perhaps seeing Pink Flamingos in that time and place was a 'Divine' accident, indeed!
🦩🦩😘😂🎥🎬🏳️🌈❤.
Polyester. It stinks! No, literally.
No more Feel-Bad Romance (Liarmouth) anymore, please.
He looks like his wearing make up to look older, you know what I mean?
It's like he's a young man in an old man costume.
John you made Polyester after Desperate Living, Hairspray came a decade after Desperate Living, not “right after” it. Such a shame when an auteur gets too old to remember the timeline of his own filmography.🤦♀️
Somewhere between Polyester and Hairspray, John lost his edge. I never liked Hairspray and musicals are nauseating. Serial Mom was okay. Imagine if Divine had played Kathleen Turner's part. It would have been way better.
And the irony is people like George Wallace didn't destroy Baltimore, John's fellow liberals did.
Baltimore was an industrial city. The de industrialization of America had the same effect on Baltimore as Detroit, Cleveland, or Cincinnati. The states of ohio and Michigan aren’t in great shape. Maryland, where I live, is one of the most consistently democratic voting states in the country. Tied with New Jersey for the most millionaires per capita, and the two richest predominantly black counties in the US are both in Maryland. I live and work in Baltimore and I love it, I’m originally from south of DC, traveled the world in the military, traveled the country for pleasure. Baltimore is one of the few places that kept its uniqueness and authenticity. But there is also the fact that you leave the city in any direction and you are in some of the most affluent desirable places in the US. Baltimore hasn’t stopped pivoting, we have seen a significant reduction in crime, tech startups have been incentivized to come here, and they are currently selling million dollar town homes in canton and fells point, we have John Hopkins which is one of the best if not the best medical institutions in the world, and every weekend I can see a major league baseball game, a professional football game, or any number of live music or comedy performances. When people say things about how bad Baltimore is those of us that live here appreciate it, helps keep the riff raff out. Because the red states that encountered the same challenges we have are worse off in every metric. We were wise enough not to trade our right to collective bargaining for the right to own a machine gun, and the citizens focused on environmental clean up and community based art rather than starting a militia to combat the new world order or Illuminati or communists infiltration of our government 30 years after the fall of the Soviet Union.
@KyleShade Thanks. You've summed up blue states and the modern Democrat party perfectly:
White liberal elites in their gated communities in the suburbs, and the dystopian inner cities.
What do they have in common?
They all vote for the same party.
Garbage
Nope.. Waters is Trash, and proud of it. The garbage is your gene pool.
God this woman is HUMORLESS
This interviewer is terrible, typical phony, narcissistic interrupter due to self entitlement, poor John.