Waters and Divine (then known as Glen Milstead) lived near Baltimore as boys, a short distance apart, where they met and became friends. A particularly notorious segment of Pink Flamingos featured transvestite actor Divine eating fresh dog feces. These films pushed hard at the boundaries of conventional propriety and movie censorship and indeed, many felt, good taste. Dubbed "the pope of trash" by writer William Burroughs, his earlier film works included Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living, sometimes referred to as the Trash Trilogy. John Waters is also a professor for cinema and subculture at the European Graduate School. He has long been known as a " bad boy" among filmmakers. John Waters (born April 29, 1946) is an American filmmaker. "In order to acquire bad taste one must first have very good taste." - John Waters Biography
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