John Waters, the man whose films based in Baltimore helped give the city it's quirky reputation, has a new book out. He stopped to answer a few questions about "Role Models" and bad taste in America.
Here's an excerpt:
"It has been more than a generation since your films "Pink Flamingos" and "Polyester" established you as a champion of the trash-into-art aesthetic. But now that bad taste is so prevalent in America, does it still carryan artistic charge for you?
Bad taste per se does not, because today it's reality television and gross-out, big-budget Hollywood comedies. Everything we export � it's all about bad taste, so it's not new anymore. You have to know the rules to break them with happiness, and thank God my mother taught me proper table manners."
Read the entire Q&A here.