Liarmouth: A feel-bad romance

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In 2015, he became involved with First Families First in calling for a 'No' vote in the referendum for the Thirty-fourth Amendment of the Constitution (Marriage Equality) Bill 2015. [27] Waters is a bibliophile, with a collection of over 8,000 books. In 2011, during a visit to the Waters house in Baltimore, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson observed:

In 2019, the Film Society of Lincoln Center celebrated its 50th anniversary at a gala where John Waters spoke in tribute to the Center along with Martin Scorsese, Dee Rees, Pedro Almodovar, Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Moore, Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan. [46] Fine art [ edit ] a b Blevins, Joe (April 22, 2016). "Revisit the raw, early films of John Waters, Baltimore's Pope Of Trash". The A.V. Club . Retrieved June 28, 2018. In October 2022, it was announced that Waters will adapt his novel, Liarmouth, into a film. Village Roadshow Pictures will produce, and Waters will write and direct. [32] In 2007, Waters became the host ("The Groom Reaper") of 'Til Death Do Us Part, a program on America's Court TV network. Hoffman, Jordan (October 24, 2017). "Did the Devil Kill Jayne Mansfield". Vanity Fair . Retrieved October 24, 2023.

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In 2016, Waters received an honorary degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore during the college's undergraduate commencement ceremony. He received an honorary doctorate from the University of Baltimore in 2023. [141] John Waters Is the Godfather of Baltimore's Art Scene". www.vulture.com. November 2018 . Retrieved April 9, 2019.

You decide. Shift, with an “f.” I’m happy at the social change, the craziness of it. The main difference, though, is when I was young — and I hate people that say that; it means you’re old — we used political incorrectness as a weapon against our enemies, but we made fun of ourselves first. The trigger-warning crowd does not make fun. I’m actually for going further: We should have fecal mobs go out and perform turd terrorism to prove that we’re serious about policing pronouns. The Jan. 6 people, they [expletive] in Nancy Pelosi’s office. So maybe we should go even crazier politically correct the other way and have fecal flash mobs going out there. Clark, Cath and Wrigley, Tish. “John Waters' Youth Manifesto”. AnOther. Published February 13, 2014. Accessed February 24, 2023.

Waters continues to challenge himself with new creative endeavors. "Why not try to write your first novel in your mid-70s?, " he said. "I want to keep trying new things. Dare yourself." Bellafante, Gina (March 19, 2007). "Love? Obey? These Vows Are to Nag or to Shoot". The New York Times . Retrieved May 2, 2020. John Waters has a cameo in latest 'Alvin and the Chipmunks' movie". Chris Kaltenbach. The Baltimore Sun. December 17, 2015. Archived from the original on June 29, 2018 . Retrieved December 18, 2015.

Sheridan, Kathy (1 May 2015). "Kathy Sheridan: First Families First take up fight for No side". The Irish Times . Retrieved 9 May 2015. On 2 March 2021, the Irish Court of Appeal dismissed an appeal by Waters and O'Doherty of the High Court's refusal to permit them to bring their challenge, and its award of costs of that hearing against them. Counsel for the state in the appeal argued that some of the applicants' submissions were " Bermuda Triangle stuff". [37] Waters has entered the Eurovision Song Contest. " They Can't Stop the Spring", the song he co-wrote with Tommy Moran and performed by the band Dervish, was selected following a telephone vote of viewers on RTÉ's The Late Late Show to be Ireland's entry in Eurovision Song Contest 2007 in Helsinki. The song finished last in the European competition final, receiving only 5 points. [39] He also claimed that the clerical child abuse cases were "closely aligned to homosexuality". [79] He claimed "Now paedophile priests, there's no such thing… that's the single most interesting lie about all this. 90% of the abusers in Catholic church, they were not paedophiles, they were ephebophiles. An entirely different phenomenon. They were abusers of teenage boys which is closely aligned to homosexuality". [79] Urban/rural divide [ edit ]

Waters's early campy movies present exaggerated characters in outrageous situations with hyperbolic dialogue. Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble and Desperate Living, which he labeled the Trash Trilogy, pushed hard at the boundaries of conventional propriety and censorship. That feeling of joy is perhaps what's led much of his work to become cult hits (or even popular hits; he wrote and directed the movie Hairspray, which became a beloved Broadway musical).