John Waters is a loon, always has been. Raised in the “tyranny of good taste,” he was part-Wicked Witch of the West and part-Baltimore suburbia hophead, smoking his weight in pot and submitting to the ...

In 1985, the Baltimore Museum of Art held a retrospective of John Waters’s films. It was an event that, like many things having to do with the artist in the first two decades of his career, came with ...

"He looks normal — but he's not!" John Waters said Saturday night, inviting Ari Aster to the stage. "Get on up here!" So began a spellbinding conversation at the Provincetown International Film ...

Earlier this month, John Waters, the Baltimore native and director of classics like Pink Flamingos, Cry Baby, and a little movie called Hairspray, provided Vulture with his favori ...

Could the decline of American culture put John Waters out of a job? The director has made a career shocking decent society with brute vulgarity. But when everything’s vulgar, how do you keep that act ...

John Waters was delighted that he’s “closer to the gutter than ever” as his name was added to the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Tuesday. In his acceptance speech, Waters said that the Walk of Fame was the ...

The Pope of Trash tells PEOPLE about returning to the festival and looking for something to "startle" him as a judge of its drag contest Jack Irvin has over five years of experience working in digital ...

The 'Hairspray' writer-director told Chappell Roan that “every singer is an actress,” she recalled Swan Gallet/WWD via Getty; Jamie McCarthy/Getty Chappell Roan could go from the Pink Pony Club to the ...

For decades, film director and professional provocateur John Waters has been asked to explain himself and his movies, if not to censors, then to film critics, fans and book editors. That steady ...

For years they’ve missed each other, one in the Northern Hemisphere, one in the Southern Hemisphere. They’re both in the film industry. Both draw fans wherever they go. But John Waters the American ...

When looking at the entertainment industry, folks would be hard-pressed to find a bigger champion for Baltimore than film director, author and artist John Waters. “Because I was born here, inspired ...