![]() Pushing 50, the bad boy from Baltimore who made his name over 20 years ago - by inducing an overweight drag queen named Divine to eat dog shit in Pink Flamingos - is actually becoming a little pensive about his shock tactics nowadays. Neither as energetic and assured as his Hairspray (1988) nor as lackluster and formulaic as his Cry-Baby (1990), John Waters’s Serial Mom alerts us to the fact that the impresario of outrage is getting older and wiser, without ever letting us forget that he still has some fight in him. ‘There’s a certain matter of this ticket you’ll have to take care of - $16 for gross and willful fashion violations!’ She gives me the finger and peels out, turning up the radio so I hear the voice of the worst-dressed man in music, Stevie Wonder (17), braying in my ears.” - John Waters, “Hatchet Piece (101 Things I Hate)” (1985) ![]() I have to take my rage out on someone! I run toward this fashion scofflaw as she gets into the most offensive vehicle known to man, “Le Car’ (16), and yank her door open as she frantically tries to lock it. And then I see it, a goddam ticket on my car, even though the meter (15) has only been in effect ten minutes. A neighbor, who always seems too familiar for her own good, passes me and makes the mistake of saying, ‘Good morning.’ ‘Shut up!’ I snap, making a mental note of her hideous tube top (13) and ridiculous Farrah Fawcett hairdo (14), so popular with fashion violators. They ought to tax yogurt (12) that’s what causes cancer. I buy a carton of cigarettes, ever bitter that I’m taxed so highly (11) on the one purchase that actually brings me happiness. With Kathleen Turner, Sam Waterston, Ricki Lake, Matthew Lillard, Scott Wesley Morgan, Walt MacPherson, Justin Whalin, Patricia Hearst, and Suzanne Somers. ![]() ![]() From the Chicago Reader (April 15, 1994). ![]()
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