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	PECKER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		PECKER is such a great name for the new film by John Waters.
		Pecker got his name because he ate like a bird when he was a kid.
		Pecker, for example, posts fliers for his exhibition with one hand while shooting the photos he will display with the other.
	www.bakeru.edu /faculty/adaugherty/film/Pecker.html (296 words)

	Boxoffice Magazine [PECKER Film Review] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		But this is a John Waters film, which means that the neighborhood is in Baltimore, the boy is named Pecker, and his wholesome, loving friends and neighbors include lesbian strippers, male exotic dancers who specialize in the unmentionable practice of "teabagging," and a talking statue of the Virgin Mary.
		Young Pecker (Edward Furlong) is a budding photographer who supposedly got his nickname from pecking at his food.
		Pecker's revenge on the art-world snobs is overly obvious and a trifle preachy, but "Pecker" is a fun flick all the same.
	www.boxoffice.com /scripts/fiw.dll?GetReview?&where=ID&terms=4172 (297 words)

	EUFS: Pecker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Pecker (Edward Furlong of American History X fame), named after his childhood habit of pecking at food, is an 18 year old photographer who delights in taking pictures of his eccentric family and friends.
		Pecker persuades his boss to let him exhibit his work at the Baltimore greasy spoon where he works.
		He also provides a rich humour, especially with scenese such as Matt and Pecker in the supermarket adding `presents' to people's groceries, as well as Waters' ability to offend, with rats having sex, a man masturbating on a washing machine, tea-bagging in a gay strip club and Pecker's blasphemous grandmother with her talking Virgin Mary.
	www.eufs.org.uk /films/pecker.html (320 words)

	Pecker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Pecker (1998) is written and directed by John Waters, and is far tamer than the title would suggest, and tamer than his usual efforts.
		Pecker, so named because he pecks at his food, is a sandwich shop employee who is trying to turn his hobby of photography into a career.
		Pecker is low key, and slides through his world without breaking a sweat, but many crirics and IMDb members joined me in enjoying it.
	www.fakes.net /pecker.htm (690 words)

	Show #189 of Reeling: The Movie Review Show with Robin and Laura Clifford
		The computer animation is great, although the film suffers from an overabundance of reddish brown (both the insects and their underground home) in the palette.
		Martha Plimpton, as Pecker's elder sister Tina, is almost unrecognizable beneath a mane of wild hair as a bar-tending emcee at a gay go-go club.
		Pecker's little sister, Little Chrissy (Lauren Hulsey), is, first, a major sugar junkie, then, heavily sedated on Ritalin to turn off her sugar craving, and finally, a veggie junkie who snorts peas up her nose in the final frames of the film.
	www.reelingreviews.com /reel189.htm (4910 words)

	Film Scouts Reviews: Pecker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Pecker (Edward Furlong) is a kid from Baltimore who likes the way the world looks through a camera.
		Like a killer who stabs their victim 37 times because 36 just wasn't enough, Waters - with tongue planted firmly in cheek - stabs away not only at critics, galleries and art in general, but at the obvious absurdity of how he got to where he is today.
		While Pecker is certainly not as gross-out funny as some of his other films (although, it certainly has its moments), it is an outstanding satire of Pop Culture by a Pop Culture icon.
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/review.cfm?File=peckerb (250 words)

	1998 Toronto International Film Festival -- Day 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The film seems to have a typically overwrought Williams feel, but the text is rendered largely incomprehensible by the long list of crimes against the audience that comprise the body of the film.
		Instead, the film is a big wet kiss to Waters' native Baltimore, his obvious love for the city and it's off-the-wall inhabitants coming through loud and clear through his title character, an amateur photographer who strikes it big in the New York art world.
		Pecker's solution to mend his torn world isn't exactly unexpected, but it is appropriate.
	www.interlog.com /~lamedog/film/logs/1998/ff98/day2.html (1604 words)

	Guardian Unlimited Film \| Interviews \| John Waters (I)
		What happened later in life, when Pecker had some success, did happen to me. People immediately thought I had $1m because I had a midnight movie which was a hit, and believe me you don't get anything near that amount.
		Pecker, a lot of it does take place in New York, although we shot it all in Baltimore - except the skyline of New York.
		I met the woman who lived in the house where we filmed Pink Flamingos, which was the marble house, and she owned a kind of yuppie food store.
	film.guardian.co.uk /interview/interviewpages/0,6737,364847,00.html (2167 words)

	Fine Line Features \| Pecker \| Filmmakers
		In 1967, he made his first 16-mm film in 1967 with Eat Your Makeup, the story of a deranged governess and her lover who kidnap fashion models and force them to model themselves to death.
		The film told the story of Lady Divine and her lover, Mr.
		Filmed in glorious "Odorama," ticket buyers were given scratch Ôn' sniff cards that allowed the audience to smell along with the characters in their fragrant search for romantic happiness.
	www.finelinefeatures.com /pecker/film_one.htm (727 words)

	Review: Pecker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In recent years, film maker John Waters, perhaps best known for directing what may be the most disgusting quasi-mainstream motion picture in movie history, Pink Flamingos, has been toning down his predilection for wild, gross-out humor.
		Pecker is a warmhearted comedy about one boy's meteoric rise to fame within the art world.
		Pecker is less than 90 minutes long, but that still seems a little on the fat side.
	movie-reviews.colossus.net /movies/p/pecker.html (760 words)

	Daily Free Press -Online muse Thursday, September 24, 1998
		Pecker (named for a childhood habit of picking at his food) gets swept away by the attention from slick New York art connoisseur Rorey (Lili Taylor) and a pretentious art community looking for the next big thing.
		Shelly is initially excited by Pecker's quick rise, but becomes wary of her boyfriend's growing enthusiasm.
		Pecker is amazed that his photos sell for thousands of dollars, and appreciates the artistic and sexual attention from Rorey.
	www.collegepublisher.com /media/paper87/dfparchive/muse/0924985.html (621 words)

	Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Pecker at Epinions.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Pecker is basically the story of a young Baltimore lad who's hobby is photographing his friends and family going about their everyday business.
		Pecker is played by Edward Furlong, who was also very good in American History X and Detroit Rock City.
		One part of the film, where Pecker's girlfriend Shelley gets an obscene phone call, and the caller says "go on, be a good girl, put your vagina up to the phone" had her stunned at first, and then in hysterics.
	www.epinions.com /content_18406542980 (566 words)

	The Oberlin Review \\ Arts Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		John Waters' Pecker is a sharp and pointed comedy which captures the innumerable contradictions and general ridiculousness of, among other things, the art world, fame and white trash chic.
		The film follows Pecker (played by Edward Furlong), a blissful amateur photographer discovered in his hometown of Hampden, Baltimore, as he becomes an overnight success.
		Pecker should be seen by every art major at Oberlin and anyone else that takes themselves too seriously.
	www.oberlin.edu /stupub/ocreview/archives/1998.10.09/arts/pecker.html (189 words)

	metacritic.com: Pecker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Pecker is a satire, but an incredibly good-natured one, which is not quite the contradiction in terms it might seem.
		Pecker is a breezy, agreeable picture--a charmer, thumbs-up, three stars--but there's something disappointing about a John Waters film that's so evenhanded and all-embracing, even if its sunniness is "ironic."
		The film is never truly funny, but it's an amusing novelty, gaining strength from smart characterizations and sly cogency about the way people are exploited under the limelight of celebrity.
	www.metacritic.com /print/film/titles/pecker (621 words)

	Pecker Movie Review
		His latest, PECKER, has his usual montage of quirky characters, but the script is more like an outline that he never quite got around to filling in.
		The biggest problem with the casting of the film is the weakness of the lead, Edward Furlong as Pecker.
		Typical of these is the long running joke of Pecker's ventriloquist grandmother, who throws her voice to a large statue of the Virgin Mary.
	www.killermovies.com /p/pecker/reviews/7x7.html (519 words)

	Site Santa Fe, a contemporary art space; Press 2002; John Waters
		The film turned Waters into a cult celebrity, and went on to become a smash success at midnight screenings in the United States and around the world.
		In Hairspray, filmed in 1988, Waters created a comedy extravaganza about starstruck teenage celebrities in 1962, their stage mothers, and the quest for mental health.
		The film was a box office and critical success and starred the then-unknown Ricki Lake, Deborah Harry, the late Sonny Bono, Jerry Stiller, Pia Zadora, and Ric Ocasek.
	www.sitesantafe.org /pressroom/pressreleases/waters.html (802 words)

	ToxicUniverse.com - John Waters - 1998 - Pecker Movies Review
		But his family enjoys the adulation that Pecker receives, and his best friend Matt (Brendan Sexton III), whose main talents lie in playing supermarket terrorist games and shoplifting, suddenly finds himself surrounded by two beautiful women who are turned on by his tales of kleptomania.
		Pecker's 15-minutes of fame only brings misfortune to his friends and family—his family home is robbed, his sister loses her job, Shelley thinks Pecker fancies Rorey, and Matt takes a job as a male stripper because the stores all recognize him.
		Pecker may not rank with Waters' work in Pink Flamingo, but it's as entertaining as Hairspray and certainly more entertaining than anything that Eddie Murphy has done lately.
	www.culturedose.net /review.php?rid=10001305 (882 words)

	The Nick Schager Film Project: Pecker (1998): D+
		Pecker (1998): D+ Shockingly obvious filmmaking from a usually eccentric and unpredictable iconoclast, Pecker is arguably director John Waters’ worst film.
		Pecker’s loving portraits of the city’s misfit population are usurped by big-city intellectuals who condescendingly embrace his snapshots and declare him a genius, and Waters means to critique those who have patronizingly embraced his own freak-filled films for the wrong reasons.
		Pecker’s art-world reprimand feels like a tepid scolding rather than an inspired rant, and amidst all the second-rate gags and go-nowhere scenes, it was depressing to discover not a single flash of Waters’ classic, uninhibited mischievousness.
	www.nickschager.com /nsfp/2004/09/pecker_1998_d.html (310 words)

	Film Scouts Interviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		A brilliant conversationist, Waters enthralled a press corps made of film critics, movie buffs, gossipers, and even linguists eager to discover the exact meaning of "tea-bagging", a practice Martha Plimpton forbids in the full-montied strip-joint she bartends at.
		I could imagine Pecker going to Hollywood, directing his first movie, he'd become a cocaine addict for a while, and he’d be wildly out of control for a while until he was saved by his Baltimore roots.
		In the house where we filmed, one of the children was on home detention, which was kind of neat; he came down the steps and said: "I’ve seen you on TV." And it felt really nice (he laughs).
	www.filmscouts.com /scripts/interview.cfm?File=joh-wat (2992 words)

	Pecker and Ringmaster
		Pecker and Ringmaster both explore how perceptions of morality and decency are shaped by class.
		Toward the end of the film, a protester objects to Jerry Springer's program during a taping.
		When Pecker and Shelley are in the voting booth, they discuss how everyday colors and objects can become art.
	uwacadweb.uwyo.edu /greenwaldscourses/History%201110/film%20study%20guide%20pecker%20ringmaster.htm (353 words)

	LETTERS From CAMP Rehoboth - November 20, 1998 - CAMPOUT
		As for the Film Fest itself, Barry Becker, Rob Rector, the Festival Board and volunteers should be cheered and exalted for a great job planning, organizing and launching a fabulous event.
		As we thronged in anticipation, a festival volunteer, eager to see things run smoothly called out, "Everybody here for Pecker?" The double entendre was hardly out of her mouth (ooh, I think there’s something puny lurking there too...) when she realized what she’d said and howled in laughter.
		With the film makers—the director/cameraman and the producer—on hand to answer questions, it was a wonderful treat.
	www.camprehoboth.com /issue11-20-98/campout.htm (970 words)

	Willamette Week Screen
		When Pecker finally gets his photos displayed at a Hampden sandwich joint, he is met with a freaky stroke of luck: A New York art gallery owner (Lili Taylor) happens to see the show, and she swiftly pronounces the young shooter's work to be genius.
		Though Pecker is still the nice kid he always was, his hobnobbing with the upper crust annoys those close to him and freezes his creativity.
		When Pecker leaves Hampden and arrives in New York, his pictures are received as exotic, hilarious testaments to the misery of white trash.
	www.wweek.com /html/screenb092398.htm (756 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Pecker: Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Pecker takes photos of his rather odd family and friends and nobody thinks anything of them until one day a New York art dealer discovers his work and makes him famous.
		This film was very entertaining, i'm surprised i had never heard of it before because i like storylines that don't follow the usual trend in movie themes.
		It is Pecker's misfortune to have a whole family consisting of these oddballs, but he seems to take it in his stride.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00004CYZY (503 words)

	John Waters Interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Pecker explains to her about art, and she expands in a humorous way.
		She likes Pecker's art work for the right reasons, but the right reasons in New York are very different from Pecker's motives.
		Pecker is a movie about class, but that's not something I would say in my pitch.
	www.bostonphoenix.com /archive/movies/98/08/06/JOHN_WATERS.html (1554 words)

	Film & TV: Film Clips (Tucson Weekly . 10-05-98)
		John Waters may not be as funny and gross as he was in the old days, but at least you can hear the dialogue in his movies now.
		Pecker weds a dash of Water's campy old style to a heartwarming story about a young photographer (they call him Pecker) who makes it big in the New York art world.
		But Pecker has his own ideas of how to unleash the style of Baltimore upon the world.
	weeklywire.com /ww/10-05-98/tw_filmclip.html (434 words)

	Citybeat - Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Later, into the film, when Divine is rubbing a steak between her legs, I watched his date quickly exit.
		Pecker's newfound status is even more startling to his working-class family and girlfriend Shelley (Christina Ricci), who runs a local laundromat.
		Pecker, Waters first film since 1994's Serial Mom, is a surprisingly sweet-natured love letter to Waters' hometown of Baltimore.
	www.citybeat.com /archives/1998/issue444/filmarticle6.html (386 words)

	Pecker Movie: Pecker DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		Set, as usual, in Baltimore, the film stars Edward Furlong as Pecker, a sweet-natured young fellow who happily passes the days photographing his surroundings with a cheap secondhand camera.
		When Pecker’s works are "discovered" by a slumming NYC art dealer (Lili Taylor), his simple life is turned upside down, and he quickly realizes that he was happier as an unknown.
		As with all other Waters films, those who are familiar with Baltimore culture will be even more richly rewarded.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/794043473128IE (330 words)

	Film Review: Pecker
		"Pecker" follows "Slaves Of New York" and others in taking the urine out of the fashionable art world, not a difficult task when elephant dung is hailed as a return to tradition at this year's Turner prize.
		Pecker (Edward Furlong) is a nice teenage boy, who works at the corner diner and has a prickly girlfriend (Christina Ricci), who manages the neighbourhood Laundromat.
		Even the gay club, where Pecker's sister (Martha Plimpton) works, is a fun place for hetero hunks to strut their stuff.
	www.moviereviewindex.com /getreview/60093 (307 words)

	Los Angeles Magazine: Pecker. - movie reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		So the hero of his wickedly funny new film Pecker, a sweet shutterbug with an eye for the unusual, seems more than a little autobiographical.
		A cook in a local fast-food joint, Pecker (played with disarming innocence by Edward Furlong) is happiest when he's shooting neighborhood sights: rats copulating in a trash can, a woman shaving her legs on the bus, even a greasy cheeseburger simmering on the grill.
		In Pecker, it's the New York art crowd who are the freaks, and in the end the film manages to turn the tables on them.
	www.findarticles.com /cf_lamg/m1346/n10_v43/21168736/p1/article.jhtml (701 words)

	Pecker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		'Pecker,' which in American usage of course has only one meaning these days, becomes the name of his film's young hero, and we're told he's called that because when he was a child he just pecked at his food.
		In his film 'Hairspray,' for instance, this border city between north and south provides a context in which Waters can give us an accurate shorthand look at bigotry and race hatred, without trying to beat us over the head with political statements.
		'Pecker' isn't the film that 'Hairspray' was; it gives away too much of a very thin plot early on, and there's not much left to fill out even a short eighty-five minutes of film time, but still, any John Waters is better than none.
	www.movies101.com /PECKER.HTML (441 words)

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