What are some of the films that John Waters has directed?
John Waters’ 1981 film Polyester starred Divine opposite former teen idol Tab Hunter. Since then, his films have become less controversial and more mainstream, although works such as Hairspray, Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, Pecker and Cecil B. DeMented still retain his trademark inventiveness. The film Hairspray was turned into a hit Broadway musical which swept the 2003 Tony Awards, and a movie adaptation of the Broadway musical was released in theaters on July 20, 2007. Waters’ 2004 film, the NC-17-rated A Dirty Shame, is a return to his earlier, more controversial work of the 1970s. He also had a cameo in Jackass: Number Two, which starred Dirty Shame co-star Johnny Knoxville. Waters is currently a professor of cinema and subcultural studies at the European Graduate School. In 2007, he became the host (as “The Groom Reaper”) of ‘Til Death Do Us Part, a program on America’s Court TV network featuring dramatizations of real-life marriages that soured and ended in murder. As an openly homosexu
John Waters’ 1981 film Polyester starred Divine opposite former teen idol Tab Hunter. Since then, his films have become less controversial and more mainstream, although works such as Hairspray, Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, Pecker and Cecil B. DeMented still retain his trademark inventiveness. The film Hairspray was turned into a hit Broadway musical which swept the 2003 Tony Awards, and a movie adaptation of the Broadway musical was released in theaters on July 20, 2007. Waters’ 2004 film, the NC-17-rated A Dirty Shame, is a return to his earlier, more controversial work of the 1970s. He also had a cameo in Jackass: Number Two, which starred Dirty Shame co-star Johnny Knoxville. Waters is currently a professor of cinema and subcultural studies at the European Graduate School. In 2007, he became the host (as “The Groom Reaper”) of ‘Til Death Do Us Part, a program on America’s Court TV network featuring dramatizations of real-life marriages that soured and ended in murder. As an openly homosexu
