I had a goal in life, I wanted to make the trashiest motion pictures in cinema history. Thanks so much for allowing me to get away with it–John Waters
Waters, John: Cult Figure–Part Two (LGBTQ, Gay)
September 3, 2013 by
Early Life and Career Waters was born on April 22, 1946 in Baltimore, Maryland into a middle-class Catholic family. He’s the son of Patricia Ann (née Whitaker) and John Samuel Waters, a manufacturer of fire-protection equipment. Waters grew up in Lutherville, a suburb of Baltimore. His boyhood friend and inspirational muse, Glenn Milstead, who later […]
Waters, John: Midnight Cult Figure
September 3, 2013 by
John Waters became a cult figure in the early 1970s, when he began making films of “dubious taste,” or to use his own words, “exploitation films for the art-house.” The greatest contribution of Waters to American cinema, and to popular culture in general, is his deconstruction of the concept of taste. My book In the […]
Movie Stars: Lancaster, Burt–Great Actor and Screen Persona
September 1, 2013 by
Burt Lancaster, the versatile, muscular Oscar-winning star, had just about appeared in every Hollywood genre: film noir, biopics, thrillers, Westerns, melodramas.
Oscar Actors: Bullock, Sandra–The Blind Side, Gravity
August 29, 2013 by
SANDRA BULLOCK may receive her second Best Actress Oscar nomination for playing Dr. Ryan Stone in Alfonos Cuaron’s astonishing “Gravity,” co-starring George Clooney.
