'Bill' didn't make it to this show, but there's no mistaking who's collected this work. I was a premature baby, and Bill's a fake baby.' Propped up next to the doll was a photo of a real baby: 'That's an ugly picture of me, and I look like Bill there.

'Oh, look, now I'm stepping on my own thing – I love floor art!' he said, accidentally kicking it to the side.

The art is on display not only on the walls, but also the floors, like a work by the minimalist sculptor Carl Andre. 'I'm trying to make you laugh at something that you were nervous about laughing about, and you're walking on the edge of what you can make fun of and what you can get away with at the same time.' 'It's all one piece of taste, it's all the same thing what I do,' he said. Ricki Lake stars as Tracy Turnblad, a plus-size girl who finds love and acceptance on a TV dance show.īraver asked, 'Do you see all this interest in the arts as kind of one piece? Obviously it's all creativity.' It's not just his art collection that has roots in Baltimore, but his films, including the 1988 classic 'Hairspray,' which celebrates outsiders. Long before he ever made films, Waters' parents brought him to his hometown museum, where he bought his first piece of art, a postcard of Joan Miró's 1938 painting 'Summer.' 'I took it home and hung it up, and all the kids went, Oh, it's ugly! And that's when I started collecting art.' This podcast is edited and produced by Megan Bay Dorman, and programmed by Matt Casbourne.Baltimore filmmaker and art connoisseur John Waters. These tales lingered, morphed, consumed me.’ Kiran Millwood Hargrave Moïra Fowley’s spellbinding imagination will captivate your senses in an irresistible collection that explores our darkest impulses and deepest fears, interlaced with stories of queer love. Prepare to be dazzled by our Book of the Week, Eyes Guts Throat Bones, an anthology of macabre tales at the end of civilisation. Subscribe and download the episode, wherever you get your podcasts! Suave salonnière Damian Barr is your host.

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