HAIRSPRAY

[perc-o-prince]

If you haven't seen the original, it'll be on ABC Family tomorrow (Tuesday) at 7pm and again at 9pm, Eastern time. I'll probably be cut at least a little, but if you haven't seen it yet, you'll get the idea.

And, you'll get to see the original Edna Turnblad!!!

Chuck

 

[toggleswitch]

Cult classics!

I highly recommend renting all John Waters films. They are just so bizarre!

The eggmans is coming Babs, the eggman!
OH HOW DIVINE!

ABC family? *LOL* ROFL

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Waters_(filmmaker)

 

[hydralique]

Absolutely!

I'll second Toggle's suggestion that everyone should be familiar with Water's work. Today it is easy to forget what a pioneer he was thirty-five years ago when he was vilified for making such stylish and non-mainstream movies. Well, he and the Dreamland crew have had the last laugh now that the films are recognized as real classics in American cinema.

"My clothes, they're the finest in polyesters, and I didn't pay for them!"

 

[toggleswitch]

Female Troubles

Pink Flamingos
Polyester
Serial Mom

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000691/

 

[jetaction]

I met John earlier this month

Went to P-Town and decided to go see the Jeff Stryker show. Sat next to John Waters himself. We had a nice visit, he has been summering in P-Town for many years.

 

[frigilux]

I think it's amazing that a John Waters film is on the ABC Family channel. I remember when people saw Hairspray in the theater, they went home and rented Waters films from his back catalog, thinking they might of the same nature.

WRONG!! Can you imagine John and Jane Doe popping Desperate Living or Female Trouble or Pink Flamingos or (worse yet) Multiple Maniacs into the VCR? Oy vey!

I bumped into John Waters at The Neptune theater in Seattle years ago. It was at a screening of Gus Van Sant's 'Mala Noche'. I was so pumped I spent half the film on the lobby phone calling friends to tell them I'd met John Waters.

 

[hydralique]

I met him once as well . . .

he autographed a book for me. He has written a couple of very funny books about his films. I think he enjoys his fame thoroughly, but refuses to let it go to his head.

"I don't know why you bother, you always retained your fluids!"

 

[kenmore58]

I have to admit his movies are a bit bizzare. I have Female Trouble on DVD, but that's the extent of my collection. Absolutely cannot stand Pink Flamingos.

My favorite line from Hairspray: "I've got baskets of ironing to do and my diet pill is wearing off."

Or, as Edna is snarfing down more food, "Pass me my diet pill, will you, Hon."

Ron

 

[frigilux]

Ron, I'd say Waters' early films (Multiple Maniacs, Female Trouble, Pink Flamingos) are more than just a bit bizarre, LOL. I've shown PF to several friends and they've probably been psychologically scarred by it. While it has a lot of the darkest comedy imaginable, it also has plenty of content to disgust and outrage anyone who watches it. It's a difficult film to defend, that's for sure.

Waters has certainly produced some iconic film images: The Cha-Cha heels/Christmas tree scene in Female Trouble; the doggy doo-doo-eating scene in Pink Flamingos (actually not the most disturbing scene in that film by a long shot); Divine being sexually assaulted by a 15-ft. lobster in Multiple Maniacs (again, far from the most disturbing scene in the film). Everyone who's seen his movies has their favorite lines to recite.

 

[veg-o-matic]

Mister Smoofburger, Dawn Davenport is eating a meatball sandwich right out in class!

 

[frontaloadotmy]

From the looks of things, Young Lady,

You've never stopped eating!!!!!

 

[bundtboy]

Odor-Rama

I used to have some of the scratch and sniff cards that go along with the Hairspray movie, which was in Odor-Rama.

You'd scratch and sniff a dot on a card and smell what was going on as you watched.

The final spot was - GLADE~ air freshener~

I sold those on ebay years ago though.

b

 

[perc-o-prince]

Dawn Davenport is eating a meatball sandwich right out in cl

And, she's passing notes.

 

[toggleswitch]

~I used to have some of the scratch and sniff cards that go along with the Hairspray movie, which was in Odor-Rama.
You'd scratch and sniff a dot on a card and smell what was going on as you watched.

Nothing beats when one of the characters has her head (a scratch and-sniff moment is indicated on the screen) in the oven, ostensibly to gas herself to death (Oh the mello-drama!) uhm, it's an electric oven. *LOL*

 

[bundtboy]

gas...

Yes, I remember smelling gas.
I'll be sure to watch it again tonight, hon.

B

 

[hydralique]

The Fishpaw's applicances . . .

I've always laughed about that "gas-electric" oven too. I actually have the same refrigerator, my much-loved turquoise '66 Frigidaire Imperial. One of my favorite lines from Polyester is what Cuddles says as she enters the house, "Oh Francine, your house is like something outta Awkytectural Digest!"

I would love to have seen the looks on the faces of editors and employees of Architectural Digest when they heard this! Bad colonial houses with French Provincial furniture from Levitz and early American kitchens with turquoise appliances just aren't their stock in trade . . .

 

[dalangdon]

"This is Dawn Davenport. Dawn Davenport...you made love to me Christmas morning. ..."

Dawn Davenport, "Female Trouble"

"I can't stand this scenery another minute. All natural forests should be turned into housing developments! I want cement covering every blade of grass in this nation. Don't we taxpayers have a voice anymore?"

Peggy Gravel, "Desperate Living"

"I never wanted to use macramé to kill!"

Lu-Lu Fishpaw, "Polyester"

 

[kenmore58]

Dawn to Taffy: "You want another whippin' with that car aerial? It's right in that closet!!

RON

 

[perc-o-prince]

"I've got nothing but hampers of ironing to do -- and my diet pill is wearing off!"

Edna Turnblad, Hairspray

 

[bobbyderegis]

OOO MAO MAO!!!

Missed this thread! When is the next showing of eggy-weggies?
Bobby in Boston

 

[bundtboy]

polyester hairspray

That's right...it was Polyester that was in Odor-rama...not Hairspray.

I tried to watch it on TV but the commercial breaks were too much for me~

b

 

[63getelevision]

Female Trouble

for $15.00 at FYE. I was amazed that I found it within two minutes of thinking about it. I want some of the other pre fame movies, with the really wierd plots. I can't watch the chicken $%^&ing scene, though.

 

[frigilux]

Alan---Go to amazon.com and type in the name of the film you want. Then select the 'used' option and you'll find nearly any Waters film. I got Multiple Maniacs through an amazon-affiliated place called vhs4less. In fact, I also search the amazon's vendors of used items for movies and music. Never had a problem with any of them. It's a good way to find out-of-print items.

The only Waters film I need to round out my collection is Mondo Trasho, which is generally considered his first film (although the shorter Hag In A Black Leather Jacket and Eat Your Makeup preceed it). But I'm not willing to shell out money the vendor wants for it. Yet.

 

[63getelevision]

Thanks, Frigilux

I'll try that.

 

[danemodsandy]

Toggles:

"Nothing beats when one of the characters has her head (a scratch and-sniff moment is indicated on the screen) in the oven, ostensibly to gas herself to death (Oh the mello-drama!) uhm, it's an electric oven."

Actually, Waters seems to have stolen that moment from the 1963 film version of Bye Bye Birdie. Maureen Stapleton does the same thing in that movie. It's a funny moment, though, in either film.