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	John Waters (filmmaker) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		John Waters (born April 22, 1946, Baltimore, Maryland) is an American filmmaker known for films displaying what some consider to be "bad taste" while still managing to be humourous to some audiences.
		Waters' early films were all shot in the Baltimore area with his regular team of local actors (the '' Dreamlanders '') who starred in most of his films, including Divine, Mink Stole, Cookie Mueller, Edith Massey, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, and others.
		John Waters guest-starred in an episode of '' The Simpsons '' (Homer's Phobia) and played a character called "John" (drawn in Waters' likeness), the owner of a pop culture memorabilia store that becomes friends with Homer until Homer realizes he is gay.
	www.seattleluxury.com /encyclopedia/entry/John_Waters_(filmmaker) (1346 words)

	JOHN WATERS INTERVIEW
		John: You know, there was, and I've read all of his books, but that's not why I named her that.
		John: Well, I read her book, and then one day I was in Boston, and walked by a theater where she was playing.
		John: Well, it's all completely explained to them beforehand, and generally the ones who haven't seen my films think probably that it's worse than it is. They get there, and they meet everybody, and they sort of get along with everybody and they like doing it.
	members.fortunecity.com /advopath/waters/johnwatersinterview.html (3266 words)

	Testing the Waters - Film - Entertainment - theage.com.au
		Waters, to his credit, managed to offend the pious establishment and the not-so-radical counterculture as he established himself.
		Waters' new film, A Dirty Shame, unfolds in the working-class neighbourhood of Harford Road, where amid the suggestively pruned shrubs a guerilla war is breaking out between a cell of free-spirited sex addicts and the prudish "neuters", who disapprove of their lusty ways.
		Waters, who carefully works to budgets and contracts, was legally obliged to deliver a less-restrictive rating in his homeland, but he and his distributor, New Line, were flummoxed when the Motion Picture Association of America told them that there wasn't any specific cuts that could be made to lower the rating.
	www.theage.com.au /articles/2005/08/31/1125302632271.html (1459 words)

	John Waters - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Waters (filmmaker) (born 1946), an American filmmaker who is currently active
		John K. Waters (1906-1989), former U.S. General, prisoner of war, and son-in-law of George S. Patton
		John Waters (actor) (born 1948), an Australian actor
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Waters (142 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/John Waters (filmmaker)
		In 1997, John Waters guest-starred in an eighth season episode of The Simpsons (Homer's Phobia) and played a character called "John" (drawn in Waters' likeness), the owner of a pop culture memorabilia store who becomes friends with Homer until Homer realizes he is gay.
		John Waters appeared twice on Homicide: Life on the Street, once as a nameless bartender listening to a disconsolate Detective Bolander, and another time as a talkative prisoner awaiting transfer from New York to Baltimore (escorted by Detective Mike Logan who is turning the prisoner over to Detective Frank Pembleton).
		Waters is an avid fan of Court TV and for a time was known for going to high profile court cases as an observer.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/John_Waters_(filmmaker) (1615 words)

	BOMB Magazine: John Waters by Dennis Cooper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		As a filmmaker, he has created a body of work that is widely recognized as one of the great treasures of American movie history, and he has inspired a degree of reverence in his admirers that few if any other directors can claim.
		Waters is that rare creature, a great artist whose oeuvre has achieved not only critical respect but also massive international popularity.
		Now, after close to a decade of being exhibited in galleries around the world, Watersís photographs and photographic collages are receiving an official stamp of approval in the form of a retrospective at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in downtown New York.
	www.bombsite.com /waters2/waters.html (303 words)

	A present from John Waters
		He's just released his first Christmas compilation, the aptly titled "A John Waters Christmas," and on Dec. 21, he'll be at the 9:30 club in Washington (202-393-0930), talking up the season as only John Waters can.
		Johnson, who died in Los Angeles in 1978 at age 40, crowned himself "the 300-pound King of Soul" and was lionized for his rhythmic incantations and nonstop, rapid-fire soul jive; his radio shows were basically an excuse for him to hold court and philosophize about life.
		Waters' Christmas album - "something I've wanted to do for a long time" - is from New Line Records, a subsidiary of New Line Cinema.
	www.azcentral.com /ent/music/articles/1203waters03.html (678 words)

	Filmmaker John Waters brings photographic art to Soho
		Waters is not merely looking to take well-known stills and offer them as they are, but to reinvent, utilizing his directorial talent and off-beat sensibility to create a recontextualized work of art.
		During a press reception, Waters offered a guided tour of the exhibition, discussing at length the many films used and the creative processes involved in his photography, film and sculpture.
		Waters’ career as a filmmaker has spanned several decades, with early works such as ‘Pink Flamingos’ and Desperate Living’; now essential parts of the cult film canon.
	www.thevillager.com /villager_44/filmmakerjohnwaters.html (847 words)

	Lawrence University Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Waters' appearance highlights a three-day tribute to the writer/director that will include showings of three of his most popular films: "Pink Flamingos" on Thursday, March 5; "Polyester" on March 6; and "Hairspray" on Saturday, March 7.
		According to Waters, "real bad taste, the genuine article, is a person saving a part of his paycheck to buy a pink flamingo for his lawn.
		Tickets for Waters' presentation and "Polyester" Friday night are $7 for adults, $5 for students and include free refreshments.
	www.lawrence.edu /dept/public_affairs/media/release/9798/waters.html (219 words)

	John Waters News
		Film director John Waters is so proud of his filth that he's advising others on how to follow him down the same dirty road.
		John Waters is coming to UCLA Lots of people like Christmas, but auteur and low-rent bon vivant John Waters loves it.
		John Waters, the suave maverick filmmaker behind 'Pink Flamingos,' 'Hairspray' and other indie classics, performs a comic monologue that's dishy, delightful and delicately depraved.
	www.topix.net /who/john-waters (702 words)

	John Waters Biography (Filmmaker) — Infoplease.com
		John Waters, already well-known in his native Baltimore for his underground movies, hit it big in the 1970s with low-budget, bad-taste classics such as
		Waters is famous for his love of camp and kitsch, and he proudly demonstrates an commitment to offending some audiences.
		Crackpot: The Obsessions of John Waters by John Waters
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/johnwaters.html (189 words)

	John Waters: Change of Life
		Waters began producing still photographic works in the early 1990's, scrutinizing videotapes of movies - first his own, and then over-the-top Hollywood movies and forgotten art films that have long fascinated him - and then photographing video images off of his television screen.
		John Waters emerged as a controversial filmmaker in the late 1960's, when he began producing short films with an entourage of actors and crew known as Dreamland Studios, a diverse group that characterized the marginalized figures of society highlighted in Waters's films.
		John Waters was born in 1946 and has lived in Baltimore, Maryland for the majority of his life.
	www.newmuseum.org /Press_Office/Press_Releases/JohnWaters.htm (1421 words)

	CANOE -- JAM! - John Waters runs deep
		TORONTO -- Filmmaker John Waters is sliding gracefully and even gleefully into his mid-50s, an enfant terrible who has muscled his way into the mainstream of American cinema.
		Waters' new film is Cecil B. DeMented, the story of a crazed Baltimore cult leader and guerrilla filmmaker (Stephen Dorff) who kidnaps a movie star (Melanie Griffith) to force her to act in his cult's new movie.
		Waters, who knows how to dress for his own 'look' with his rainbow socks, sharply-tailored suit and trademark pencil-thin, Lothario moustache, has layered Cecil B. DeMented with a serious subtext, meticulously researched.
	jam.canoe.ca /Movies/Artists/W/Waters_John/2000/08/15/pf-762535.html (478 words)

	John Waters (filmmaker) Summary
		Vomit, hairspray, and the consumption of dog excrement are all to be expected when viewing the movies of writer-director John Waters.
		Raised by "normal" Catholic parents, at an early age Waters was inexplicably drawn to tacky, sleazy and trashy movies pl...
		Director John Waters earned the title "King of Bad Taste" in 1972 for Pink Flamingos, a raunchy film that makes a laughing matter of most every type of perversion.
	www.bookrags.com /John_Waters_(filmmaker) (180 words)

	John Waters (filmmaker) - Starsummary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		John Waters was born in 1946, the oldest son of conservative Catholics, in Baltimore, the "hairdo capital of the world," where all his films are made, and where Waters has proudly been a lifelong resident.
		John Waters’ guiding principle as a filmmaker has always been that there is no idea too outlandish, no subject too risqué, and most importantly, no joke too tasteless to eventually show up on screen.
		John Waters, known to most as the master of bad taste, asked for and received my permission to use my Cruising the Deuce as a prop in a movie he currently is shooting.
	www.starsummary.com /topics/John-Waters-(filmmaker) (2958 words)

	Baltimore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Waters is known for films that push the boundary of conventional propriety and censorship.
		At an early age he was obsessed by violence and gore, and in the mid-60s began making films with his offbeat friends as the cast.
		Waters will discuss influences on his creative work, including individuals from film and entertainment and the places, people, and culture of his hometown, Baltimore.
	www.ala.org /ala/acrl/acrlevents/baltimore/program07/keynote.htm (274 words)

	News
		John Waters, an American icon whose films have shocked America with their gross-out antics and wry and insightful cultural parody, is coming to Wesleyan on Thursday, Apr. 13.
		Waters’ warmth, humor and provocative work are part of the reason he has developed a connection to Wesleyan.
		Waters’ films and persona may appeal to a student body that prides itself on its nonconformity.
	www.wesleyan.edu /argus/apr1100/f3.html (794 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/John Waters (filmmaker)
		Waters Premiers his films at the Baltimore Senator Theatre and sometimes at the Charles Theatre.
		John Munch: [looking at corpse] With those beady eyes and that mustache he looks like a cross between Steve Buscemi, John Waters and Edgar Allan Poe.
		John Waters has also been featured in Jackass 2, in a skit where he makes Wee-man Disappear.
	reference.com /browse/wiki/John_Waters_(filmmaker) (1615 words)

	NPR : Filmmaker John Waters
		Its about an underground filmmaker and his cult following who declare war on bad cinema by kidnapping a starlet and forcing her to star in their own film.
		Waters other movies include, Pecker about a young amateur photographer who becomes the darling of the New York art world; Cry Baby, a juvenile delinquent love story set in the 1950's, which brought together such performers as Patty Hearst, Johnny Depp, Ricki Lake, David Nelson, and Polly Bergen.
		Waters is known for his independent, off-beat films, such as Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and "Polyester." In 1988 WATERS entered the mainstream with his popular film, "Hairspray."
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1117635 (207 words)

	John Waters Biography \| Authors and Artists for Young Adults
		Raised by "normal" Catholic parents, at an early age Waters was inexplicably drawn to tacky, sleazy and trashy movies playing far from his suburban Baltimore neighborhood.
		After being kicked out of college on a drug bust, Waters returned home to his parents and, with their blessing, began making sleazy movies.
		He reached what many consider to be his peak of underground "trash" filmmaking with the 1972 release Pink Flamingos--a work that continues to play on midnight movie circuits.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/john-waters-aya (200 words)

	Amazon.ca: Crackpot : The Obsessions of: Books: John Waters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Beneath the lewd exterior of punk filmmaker John Waters lies the discipline of gay novelist Jean Genet, and below that lies a tender humanity that some might even call saintly.
		John Waters has done more than any living American to give bad taste a good name.
		John Waters is the Pope of Trash and his taste in tacky is unexcelled.
	www.amazon.ca /Crackpot-Obsessions-John-Waters/dp/0743246276 (348 words)

	KDHX Film Review - John Waters Film Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		Based in his home town of Baltimore for his career which began in the 60s, wondrous independent filmmaker John Waters will be in St. Louis for a sold-out event this Friday [October 29, 2004] at Webster University.
		In a recent phone interview, Waters described for me some of the highlights of his presentation, saying, “I give advice to young people about how to be juvenile delinquents, about how we can bring showmanship back into movie exhibition, about how to make movies and how to get them shown.
		John Waters is an original and an important independent voice.
	www.kdhx.org /reviews/john_waters.html (352 words)

	San Diego CityBEAT
		Waters will make an appearance at the Casbah nightclub Sunday, Dec. 18, to promote his CD, A John Waters Christmas, a handpicked compilation of 12 oddly delightful holiday songs.
		His photo exhibit John Waters: Change of Life is on display at the Orange County Museum of Art through Jan. 15.
		Waters has long used music of the late 1950s and early ’60s to turbo-charge his films with just the right swagger, from buoyant piano jingles by Little Richard to jarring riffs by the late surf-guitar demigod, Link Wray.
	www.sdcitybeat.com /article.php?id=3857 (2383 words)

	On the set with John Waters - filmmaker - Brief Article - Interview Advocate, The - Find Articles
		For Waters fans who've been deprived since 1994's twisted Serial Mom, the wait is about to end.
		In his latest film Waters returns once again to the story of an outsider who triumphs over mediocrity and bad hair.
		Waters, who turns 52 in April, stuck a new feather in his cap in November with Director's Cut, a book of photographs taken from famous movies and reassembled as wickedly funny storyboards.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1589/is_n752/ai_20212859 (633 words)

	Biography of John Waters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
		The American John Waters (born April 29, 1946) is a filmmaker.
		John Waters is also a professor for cinema and subculture at the European Graduate School.
		Mainly based in Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Waters tended to work with a regular team of actors (the Dreamlanders) who starred in most of his films, including Divine, Mink Stole, Cookie Mueller, Edith Massey, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce and others.
	biography-2.qardinalinfo.com /w/Waters_John.html (688 words)

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