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JOHN WATERS at LARGO AT THE CORONET
Tickets Now Available at Laughstub.com!
An evening with legendary filmmaker John Waters (Pink Flamingos; Hairspray; Cry-Baby; Serial Mom; Pecker; A Dirty Shame) and TBD in celebration of the paperback release of Waters' book of essays, Role Models (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, May 2011).
The director of the gross-out epic Pink Flamingos and other cinematic provocations salutes the people he finds inspiringhimself foremost among themin these self-regarding essays. Waters's role models range from icons like Johnny Mathis and Tennessee Williams to a gay reality-porn auteur, a lesbian stripper called Lady Zorro, and ex-Charles Manson groupie and murderer Leslie Van Houten. When he pays attention to them, Waters produces vivid portraits of his subjects, especially those with really lurid backstories, but he's happier when the spotlight is on him and his studied outrageousness. He discusses celebrity (I've... gone out drinking with Clint Eastwood, and spent several New Year's Eve parties in Valentino's chalet in Gstaad, but what I like best is staying home and reading) and the graphic pornography on his walls, and regales readers with scatological scandals, disdaining religious beliefs while graciously tolerating people who hold them. In the end, Waters's war against the tyranny of good taste feels tired, his taboo-breaking rote, his kitsch-mongering snobbish (taken on a tour of the Vatican, he refuses to leave the gift shop and its hideously pious cards).
ADVANCE TICKETS are available with the following options:
a. Admission with a paperback copy of John Waters' "Role Models" AND a complimentary limited edition 1 of 100 John Waters at Largo print exclusive to this event.*
b. Admission with a paperback copy of John Waters' "Role Models" ONLY (no print).
c. Admission (no book or print).
*Option A is limited to the first 100 advanced ticket buyers only.
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LocationLargo at the Coronet Theatre
366 N. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
United States
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| Minimum Age: 21 |
| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
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