Cleaner waters: April 24, 1990.As John Waters's latest film--A Dirty Shame, starring Johnny Knoxville--graces the cover of this issue of The Advocate, we look back 14 years at a cover story in which the openly gay director talked about becoming a mainstream Hollywood Hollywood. 1 Community within the city of Los Angeles, S Calif., on the slopes of the Santa Monica Mts.; inc. 1903, consolidated with Los Angeles 1910. success. "The idea of luring in unsuspecting people with the facade facade (fəsäd`), exterior face or wall of a building. The term implies ordered placement of its openings and other features and thus seems inapplicable to a wall without design. of commerciality ... is all right with me," Waters said. No longer wanting to appeal only to the audience that came to see his countercultural hits, Waters said he preferred to create humor humor, according to ancient theory, any of four bodily fluids that determined man's health and temperament. Hippocrates postulated that an imbalance among the humors (blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile) resulted in pain and disease, and that good health was that could entertain people living in "East Bumfuck, America." "I've always wanted my movies to make money," he said. 'I'm a capitalist." At the beginning of his career, Waters said, he was making a point with extreme obscenity obscenity, in law, anything that tends to corrupt public morals by its indecency. The moral concepts that the term connotes vary from time to time and from place to place. In the United States, the word obscenity is a technical legal term. In the 1950s the U.S. . "But the times were so different." he said. "There was a war then, and I was 24. I'm 44 now, and that makes a big difference.... I have a nice career and a nice house. A 44 year-old man who was so angry that he could produce Pink Flamingos would be sort of a moron mo·ron n. A person of mild mental retardation having a mental age of from 7 to 12 years and generally having communication and social skills enabling some degree of academic or vocational education. ." At 58, however, it seems he's come full circle. |
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