![]() I remember when we got a PG rating for this filmI was totally horrified. If you haven't seen it, it's about how much fun music used to be before the Beatles ruined it. ![]() You know, I accidentally made a family movie when I made this picture. Waters spoke about Hairspray as part of a Moving Image retrospective of his films.Ī Pinewood Dialogue following a screening of Hairspray, moderated by Chief Curator David Schwartz (October 25, 1998): Sadly, the movie was Waters’s last collaboration with the actor Divine, who died a week after its release. ![]() After his genuinely shocking Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living, he made the surprise move of directing a PG-rated musical, Hairspray, which placed its classic teen love story against the backdrop of early-1960s racial integration. In the films of John Waters, "The Pope of Trash," outrageous behavior co-exists with genuine humanism. Moving Image Pinewood Dialogues: JOHN WATERS TRANSCRIPT ![]()
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