![]() ![]() In 2002, Hairspray was adapted to a long-running Broadway musical, which itself was adapted to a hit musical film which earned more than $200 million worldwide. Waters skirted mainstream filmmaking with Hairspray (1988), which introduced Ricki Lake and earned a modest gross of $8 million domestically. Waters skirted mainstream filmmaking with Hairspray (1988), which intr Starting with Desperate Living (1977), Waters began casting real-life convicted criminals (Liz Renay, Patricia Hearst) and infamous people (Traci Lords, a former porn star). Waters's 1970s and early '80s trash films feature his regular troupe of actors known as Dreamlanders-among them Divine, Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Edith Massey. John Waters is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. ![]()
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