John Waters Regales Bill Maher With Tales From His Different Kind Of ‘Glory’ Days
deadline.comJohn Waters is still stirring things up at 78. A frequent Real Time guest of Bill Maher, the writer, actor, and filmmaker of such cult classics as Pink Flamingos and Cry-Baby can still zing with the best.
He started off with a brief discussion of this week’s biggest news, the Trump trial results in New York. “If he gets home detention, you will hear Melania scream,” Waters said.
Adding, “In jail, they pay guards for cell phones. He has to sneak in “Just for Men.” The conversation took an abrupt turn when Maher brought up the Pope’s slur against gays this week, which prompted Waters to reminisce about the days of Glory Holes on both coasts. “God, I hope I didn’t blow Rex Reed!” Fortunately for Walters, he claimed his films are “doing better than ever,” though he admits he lost every obscenity case he was ever involved in.” Waters admitted he doesn’t like filming sex scenes. “We didn’t have intimacy coaches,” he said.
He imagined if they did while filming the likes of Divine. “Is it all right to eat shit? Do you have breath mints?” Asked about the start of Pride Month, Waters said he wants new minorities. “I’m trying to come up with new perversions,” he said. “Our pubic past is something we have to remember.” Waters said his parents never asked if he was gay. “They feared it was something worse.” This week’s panel discussion included David Axelrod, former senior advisor to President Obama, CNN political contributor, and host of the podcast The Axe Files with David Axelrod, and Ken Buck, former Republican congressman from Colorado.
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