John Waters brings his birthday show to a man at Wallis

Filmmaker, actor, writer and provocative in good humor John Waters was 79 years old this week. To celebrate, he reserved a visit to an individual program, “John Waters' birthday celebration: the naked truth”, which stops at the Wallis in Beverly Hills on Saturday.

Before the big night, the native of Baltimore spoke with the Times of what the public can expect. Waters did not want to give its best equipment, so the conversation turned to include a variety of topical subjects: why the President Trump will not manage to make the drags disappear; How he was touched by a Tiktok video produced by Elon Musk's transgender daughter, Vivian, in which she quotes Waters black comedy of black comedy, “Pink Flamingos”; And why the Christmas house decorations of Melania Trump put the last “nail in the coffin of bad taste”.

“I aspire to be prohibited again,” said Waters, shifting that his books are through the gateway to bookstores rather than “by real crime near the bathroom or the gay section in the back”.

Her recent exhibition“John Waters: Pope of Trash”, at the Academy Museum of the Academy in Los Angeles, sealed the agreement, he said.

“Now I'm so respectable, I could vomit,” he said. “I remember when I was condemned by the Catholic Church – how pleased it. And when I based entire advertising campaigns on terrible criticism. ”

It was William S. Burroughs who, in 1986, nicknamed Waters the “Pope of Trash”. Almost 40 years later, a whole new generation has caught up the waters – a fact that appeals to the self -proclaimed “Filth Elder”.

Waters recently sent a clip from Musk's transgender girl, Vivian Wilson, 21, the “Pink Flamingos” lines synchronized by the lips spoken by Divine, the legendary Drag Queen and the star of many Waters films.

“Dirt is my policy, Flith is my life,” said Wilson for the camera, turning his hair and putting his hands on his hips.

“I was surprised and touched by it,” said Waters. “I thought, Wow, 50 years ago, it really went far.”

Waters' career has been defined by its intrepid – often scandalous approach – to highlight the actors and the themes LGBTQ +. He brings the same sensitivity to his shows to a single man. The press release from his birthday show calls the performance “an endless bag of trans-gressive and unclean twisting and hetero-hetero tales that will warm up the dark little hearts of non-binary frogs all over the world.”

The proclamation comes at a time when the Trump administration said that it will only recognize two sexes, men and women, and has taken control of John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, promising an end of tray gagrins “targeting our young people”.

The waters, however, are not concerned about the president's attack on the trail.

“He will never get rid of the trail,” said Waters. “It is impossible. Rupaul made it acceptable to average America. ”

However, Waters is not surprised that some people do not like Drag's tale time. He said that the Academy Museum wanted to do the trail scenario for his film screenings, and he replied: “Are you crazy? My Drag Queens are made to scare adults, not comfort the children.”

Many Waters films have managed to scare adults over the years – but young people, hungry for rebellion and eager to align themselves with an artist who has given voice and legitimacy to their more procurerates, have flocked to the waters since the start of his career.

A title that reduced the current dominantly dominating, and has never been censored, despite fairly scandalous themes, is “hairspray” from 1988, which was adapted to a Broadway musical in 2002.

Waters calls a “Trojan horse” “hairspray”.

“In the plot, Tracy Turnblad does not think that his mother is trans,” said Waters about the young female protagonist played by Ricki Lake, whose mother, Edna Turnblad, is played by Divine. “It's a secret between the public and the actors, and they don't know how to attack this.”

For waters, humor is the ultimate weapon, and it branches it with an irreverent good will, mocking to make fun first before tearing yourself into someone else.

“Humor is always the way to win a war, to terrorize people, to make them laugh, to change their mind, to frighten them and to be friendly,” said Waters, noting that he often makes fun of the Liberals, because he is himself one.

Waters said he loved everything he teases “and maybe that's why I’m really never mean, and people even kiss the wild S – I say.”

Also: it is not independent, which he considers “the ultimate sin of politically correct”.

There will be no political correction during Waters' birthday show. The recommended age for participation is over 18. Over the past 50 years, the filmmaker has stayed in his office every day at 8 am to write – a process he has used to refine his last man script.

Inspiration has never been difficult to find.

“I find the life interesting. I spy people. I listen to. I have read 20 newspapers a day. I still receive 100 magazines per post,” he said. “I am interested in human behavior. I can never understand when someone says they get bored. This is the most unfathomable thing you can tell me. ”