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‘The minute I had success, I stopped taking drugs’: John Waters on 60 years of screen carnage

‘The minute I had success, I stopped taking drugs’: John Waters on 60 years of screen carnage

John Waters still remembers the day his 1988 comedy Hairspray was awarded a PG certificate. “It was horrible,” he says. Until then, Waters, christened the “Pope of Trash” by the novelist William S Burroughs, was notorious for filming the... Read more.

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