![]() ![]() ![]() He is a dandy who has done away with everyone else's hierarchies and created a new world that conforms only to his own taste for trash and the sublime. Role Models is as much a philosophical manifesto as it is an utterly hilarious and shamelessly entertaining read., John Waters has a great gift for appreciation-whether for toothless lesbian strippers in Baltimore or the most rarefied painters and writers of our day. And yet Waters's warped imagination is always humane, his judgments insightful. From haute couture to low culture, from literary outsiders to lapsed actors, he delivers razor-sharp pen portraits of the women and men who have perverted and inspired him by turns. He is the dark mirror of contemporary culture. John Waters is a man always ready and willing to say the unsayable. Pass the relish, Uncle John., A delirious descent into Waters World, Role Models is a true-life confessional from one of America's greatest ironists. ![]() 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. 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,". ![]()
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