6/29/2023 0 Comments Role Models by John Waters![]() ![]() ![]() “What is exhilarating about Waters is that he's not kidding, that he's the reporter, comedian and poet-in-chief of a fantasy cult which thinks ‘there's only one way to die-spontaneous combustion. Happily, for all the reflective and tender moments, Waters never suppresses his radiant pervert self.” - Liz Brown, It combusts in the final chapter, titled ‘Cult Leader,' which exhorts readers to rise up against the ‘tyranny of good taste,' wear their belts off center, and infiltrate living crèches. “Waters may not be a gloater, but there is a delightful lunatic glee that pulses through the book. In a way, the best joke is that – Baader-Meinhof gang, outsider porn and all -Waters can't help revealing one very page that he's both sentimental and good-hearted.” - Tom Carson, New York Times Book Review But dilettantes at liberty to skip around will find a lot to charm them. ![]() ![]() “His acolytes won't need a reviewer's say-so to lap up every word of "Role Models,". has the ability to show humanity at its most ridiculous and make that funny rather than repellent.” - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Unlike those gray eminences of the show-business establishment, Waters doesn't kowtow to the received wisdom, he flips it the bird. “Waters is a greater National Treasure than 90 percent of the people who are given ‘Kennedy Center Honors' each December. ![]()
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