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John Waters

January 2024

  • Johnny Knoxville and Tracey Ullman in A Dirty Shame

    Stream team
    John Waters is cinema’s finest purveyor of trash – and A Dirty Shame is a pure, filthy spectacle

  • Stephen Woolley, right, and colleagues on scaffolding outside the Scala cinema in 1981.

    Scala!!! – a suitably riotous documentary about the subversive London cinema

September 2023

  • An older white man, mostly bald but also with very close-cropped white hair and a drawn-on black line as a moustache above his upper lip, look up toward a light that is shining on him. He stands before a pink wall that has a bank of black-and-white TVs, and wears a paisley suit coat, a white collared shirt, and a skinny black tie.

    ‘I’m so respectable I could puke’: John Waters has his Hollywood moment

    A new exhibition at the Academy of Motion Pictures celebrates the director - and Waters is taking the elevation in stride

June 2023

  • (from left) Colleen Fitzpatrick, Debbie Harry, Divine and Ricki Lake in Hairspray (1988), directed by John Waters.

    Hairspray review – subversive spirit shines through John Waters’ high-camp 80s musical

    The original 1988 bubblegum musical comedy, starring Ricki Lake, satirises racism and body-conformism with left-field flair

January 2023

  • Joan of art … Brigitte Lacombe’s portrait of Joan Didion

    Joan Didion to David Hockney: facing up to the art stars – in pictures

    A new exhibition features bracing, intimate portraits of compelling cultural figures by Brigitte Lacombe, Catherine Opie and Tacita Dean

December 2022

  • Sufjan Stevens in Santa hat, looking glum.

    Ranked
    The 20 greatest Christmas albums – ranked!

    Whether you fancy a heartwarming carol with Elvis or the story of a yuletide drug dealer from OutKast, there’s a festive album for you in our rundown of the best ever

June 2022

  • John Waters at the Barbican, in white jacket with black floral design

    John Waters: False Negative review – no sacred cow is safe from the ‘sultan of sleaze’

  • FOR SATURDAY MAGAZINE. DO NOT USE BEFORE 04 June 2022. John Waters photographed in his house in Baltimore. May 2022

    John Waters: ‘Trump ruined bad taste – he was the nail in the coffin’

March 2021

  • FILE - This Nov. 27, 2012 file photo shows attorney Ellen Torregrossa-O’Connor, left, holding the hand of former “Melrose Place” actress Amy Locane-Bovenizer, of Hopewell Township, N.J. as the jury in her trial returns a verdict in Somerville, N.J. Locane was sentenced Friday, Feb. 15, 2019, to 5 years behind bars. She served about 2½ years before her 2015 release. An appeals court ordered Locane to be re-sentenced after determining her initial sentence was too lenient. (Robert Sciarrino/The Star-Ledger, Pool via AP. File)

    ‘Thrown back in jail – it’s cruel’: why was actor Amy Locane imprisoned twice for the same crime?

    Convicted of killing a woman while drink-driving, Locane served her time and spent the next five years as a model citizen, facing up to her crime and trying to stop others from following in her footsteps. Then she was locked up again for the same offence …

August 2020

  • Divine, ‘the filthiest person alive’ and star of Jeffrey Schwarz’s documentary.

    My streaming gem
    My streaming gem: why you should watch I Am Divine

    Continuing our series of writers recommending under-seen films is a call to seek out a compelling documentary about a one-of-a-kind provocateur

March 2020

  • Divine in Pink Flamingos.

    How we made
    How John Waters and Mink Stole made notorious cult film Pink Flamingos

    ‘As soon as I saw it with an audience I knew it could be a hit – even if you hated you had to tell someone about it. But I lost every time we were in court for obscenity’

August 2019

  • Megan Rapinoe

    The measure
    From tinted tresses to name necklaces: this week’s fashion trends

    What’s hot and what’s not in fashion this week

July 2019

  • David Simon and George Pelecanos, co-creators of The Deuce, at The Idle Hour bar in Baltimore.

    Dominic West joins David Simon in condemning 'racist moron' Trump

  • A small mural of Martin Luther King in the city’s Sandtown district in west Baltimore.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about Baltimore

November 2018

  • John Waters<br>Writer and director John Waters poses for a portrait at his home in New York, Monday, April 21, 2008. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

    John Waters: why the auteur of outrage won't joke about the Manson murders

    The film-maker who built a career on bad taste makes fun of gay political correctness – but one subject remains off-limits

October 2018

  • John Waters<br>FILE - In this Dec. 5, 2017 file photo, filmmaker John Waters poses for a photograph during an interview with The Associated Press at his home in Baltimore. There are 160 artworks on display in “John Waters: Indecent Exposure,” the ticketed exhibit opening Sunday, Oct. 7, 2018, at the Baltimore Museum of Art, just might be the imposing black-and-white print titled “308 Days.” (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

    John Waters: 'I never wanted to be a cult film-maker'

    The Hairspray and Serial Mom director talks about exhibiting his provocative artwork and why he enjoys ridiculing the art world

July 2018

  • American actor Tab Hunter on a beach, circa 1955.

    Tab Hunter: how Hollywood's boy next door became a gay icon

  • Tab Hunter - 1965<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Warner Bros./Kobal/REX/Shutterstock (5855898a) Tab Hunter Tab Hunter - 1965 Warner Bros. Portrait

    Tab Hunter, 1950s Hollywood heart-throb, dies aged 86

October 2017

  • Larry David wears James Perse.

    The measure
    From Larry David’s T-shirts to Halloween planning: this week’s fashion trends

    What’s hot and what’s not in fashion this week

April 2017

  • Eva Wiseman

    The Eva Wiseman column
    Everyone feels like an outsider. It’s not just you…

    Eva Wiseman
    The minute you realise that every single other comfortable-looking person is trying just as hard as you are to belong, you’ll find yourself free to do as you wish, says Eva Wiseman
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