I’ve wanted to write something about John Waters, and why I respect and adore him so much, and how he’s been so influential for so much of my life — I saw him speak last Saturday night, just before I left the UK, and had him autograph my expired visa — but it would be hard to put all that in tow words properly at the best of time, and I’ve been absurdly busy.
Instead, let’s just enjoy a few moments from Cry-Baby, shall we? I still remember seeing this with some girls I knew in college, and when Polly Bergen said with some disgust, “Boys with long hair . . . and tattoos . . . who spit on the ground,” we all experienced a collective throb of “Oh yes.”
