John Waters is less obnoxious than Deborah Solomon
I've mentioned before my abiding distaste for the Deborah Solomon's Sunday interviews in the New York Times. Her questions tend to be confrontational -- even rude -- to no great purpose. So I was delighted to see today that she interviewed John Waters . Who would come off more tasteless -- the man who got Divine to eat dog feces on film ? Or a New York Times reporter? You already know the answer. Highlights: 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. It gets better: We should me