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Crackpot
John Waters
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Description for Crackpot
Paperback.
Waters dispenses useful advice: how not to make a movie, how to become famous, how to have a sense of humour even if you've been sentenced to life in prison, and perhaps most appropriately, how to most effectively shock and attract the nation's public. He examines the fashion sense of those on trial, assesses the current state of indie filmmaking, warns us what he'd do if he were President of the United States, and recounts what's been getting on his nerves in the past twenty-four hours. Reading CRACKPOT is slumming in reverse. See trash transformed to art before your very ... Read more
Waters dispenses useful advice: how not to make a movie, how to become famous, how to have a sense of humour even if you've been sentenced to life in prison, and perhaps most appropriately, how to most effectively shock and attract the nation's public. He examines the fashion sense of those on trial, assesses the current state of indie filmmaking, warns us what he'd do if he were President of the United States, and recounts what's been getting on his nerves in the past twenty-four hours. Reading CRACKPOT is slumming in reverse. See trash transformed to art before your very ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780743246279
SKU
V9780743246279
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About John Waters
John Waters is a writer, a film director, an actor, and a visual artist best known for his films, including Hairspray, Pink Flamingos, and Serial Mom. He is the author of the national bestsellers Role Models, Carsick, Mr. Know-It-All, and Liarmouth. His spoken-word shows This Filthy World, False Negative, and A John Waters Christmas continue to be performed around the ... Read more
Reviews for Crackpot
“John Waters is the Pope of Trash and his taste in tacky is unexcelled. Ladies and gentlemen, a very funny man.” —William S. Burroughs “Demented but endearing, hilarious but never mean-spirited. In Crackpot Waters proves that he is one of the few American writers who can successfully legitimize junk culture. Even though the book is about what ... Read more