'Here I Am, Closer To The Gutter Than Ever': John Waters Gets His Hollywood Star

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A new exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures celebrates the life and outrageous cinema of John Waters, queer icon and proud maker of 'filth.'

to now getting his flowers from The Hollywood Chamber of Commerce and The Academy.

"If you stick around long enough doing one thing, they can't get rid of you. They kind of have to accept you," he says."I mean, who would imagine thatwould have been named by the government as a great American film? It's still shocking to me, but things change." As for being memorialized and celebrated in a museum exhibition of his life and career, he says,"... this just happens a lot when you are dead. And that's good, too.

, director and president of the Academy Museum, says for a show designed for both Waters' fans and a new generation, the curators leaned into Water's tongue-in-cheek humor and themes such as body positivity and middle class hypocrisies, which are relevant to this day.

 

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