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John Waters’ Iconic ‘Hairspray’ Roach Dress, Divine’s Bar Cart and ‘Cry Baby’s’ Guitar: Must-See Props From the Academy’s ‘Pope of Trash’ Exhibit

When John Waters shocked audiences with “Pink Flamingos” more than 50 years ago, he probably didn’t foresee major museum exhibitions of his trashy aesthetic and irreverent filmmaking. But half a ...
Entertainment Weekly

John Waters says intimate piece of Divine memorabilia being held hostage: 'They asked for a ludicrous amount of money'

The legendary director, who is being celebrated with a new exhibition at the Academy Museum, is desperate to see the return of a very special item belonging to the late drag queen. Director John ...
Los Angeles Times

John Waters gets celebrated in a fancy museum? Stranger things have happened

With its latest exhibit, “John Waters: Pope of Trash,” the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has paradoxically found a way to revere the irreverent. The show, which opens to the public on Sunday and ...
CNN

‘I’ve always made fun of the rules.’ John Waters has only ever been himself

“Los Angeles is everything a great American city should be: rich, hilarious, of questionable taste and throbbing with fake glamour,” John Waters once wrote, chronicling a six-hour tour of the city in ...