Hairspray, Female Trouble, and Multiple Maniacs: Three More Screenplays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781560257028)

Here are three more of John Waters's most popular screenplays -- for the first time in print, including an original introduction by Waters and dozens of fun film stills. John Waters, the writer and director of these movies, is a legendary filmmaker whose films occupy their own niche in cinema history. His muse and leading lady was Divine -- a 300-pound transvestite who could eat dog shit in one scene and break your heart in the next. In "Hairspray," a "pleasantly plump" teenager, played by Ricki Lake, and her big-hearted hairdresser mother, played by Divine, teach 1962 Baltimore about race relations by integrating a local TV dance show. "Female Trouble" is a coming-of-age story gone terribly awry: Dawn Davenport (again, Divine), progresses from loving schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer destined for the electric chair -- all because her parents wouldn't buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas. In "Multiple Maniacs," dubbed by Waters a "celluloid atrocity," the traveling sideshow "Lady Divine's Cavalcade of Perversions" is actually a front for a group of psychotic kidnappers, with Lady Divine herself the most vicious and depraved of all -- but her life changes after she gets raped by a fifteen-foot lobster.

Author: John Waters
ISBN-10: 1560257024
ISBN-13: 9781560257028
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Language: English
Published: 09/08/2005
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/01/2005 pg. 42