John Waters - Live!!!

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John Waters has written and directed sixteen movies including Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Polyester, Hairspray, Cry Baby, Serial Mom and A Dirty Shame. Both Pink Flamingos and Hairspray have been added to the U.S. Library of Congress' National Film Registry. He is the author of ten books: Shock Value, Crackpot, Pink Flamingos and Other Trash, Hairspray, Female Trouble and Multiple Maniacs, Art: A Sex Book (co-written with Bruce Hainley), Role Models, Carsick, Make Trouble, Mr. Know-It-All, and in 2022 his first novel, Liarmouth: A Feel Bad Romance.
Liarmouth was optioned by Village Roadshow Pictures for John to write the screenplay adaptation and direct the movie. Picador will publish six of Waters' screenplays as individual editions in 2025: Pink Flamingos, Flamingos Forever and Desperate Living in May, and Multiple Maniacs, Female
Trouble, and Hairspray in mid-October.

Two music compilation CDs curated by John Waters have been released by New Line Records, "AJohn Waters Christmas" (2004) followed up by "A Date with John Waters" (2007). In 2017 Third ManRecords released a 7" EP of Waters reading his text "Make Trouble". In 2021 Sub Pop records
distributed his "Prayer to Pasolini" as part of its Singles Club. John's recordings of his audiobooks"Carsick" and "Mr. Know-It-All" were both nominated for Grammy Awards in the Best-Spoken Word Album category. Sub Pop Records released the 7" single, "It's in the Book," in 2022, Waters' cover of a 1952 hit comedy recording by Johnny Standley. In 2024 Sub Pop released a 7" single, "John Waters Covers 'The Singing Dogs' 'Jingle Bells'" b/w "It's a Punk Rock Christmas".