Exhibitionist: director John Waters.
LIKE ’80S POPSTERS Mel and Kim, John Waters was never going to be respect-a-ball. But, now aged 77, his career-long war against good taste and decency has landed him an exhibition at the prestigious Academy Museum of Motion Pictures in LA. “It just means there’s hope for everybody in the world that anything can happen,” he laughs about the news. “I look at it very proudly. I don’t use it as revenge or irony. I’m just thrilled it happened and I’m alive to see it.” In light of Female Trouble’s high heels now sharing space with Dorothy’s ruby slippers, Waters shares the stories behind some of the prized artefacts on display.
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