, but did you see the piece of shit ending to that movie?) I had no desire to see as a teenager until one of my friends said it had "women running around with money stuck to their butts!" plot is the stuff of B-movie legend: Welder by day, Mawby's bar stripper by night, Jennifer Beals tries to make it as a legit dancer.
She bangs a guy, asks de Lawd for forgiveness, does some freaky disrobing gymnastics with her titty coverings, and has her ass allegedly doubled by a man during the dance sequences. It all adds up to Oscar nominations for cinematography and editing, and a win for Best Song, "What A Feeling," which could have been the theme for Sensurround. I love John Waters, which is why I saved the most shameful movie of my past for last.
is PG-rated, which by itself should be a sin for Waters fans. Yet, looking closer, it has everything you could expect from Baltimore's Bad Boy. There's puke, pimples, ridiculous hairstyles (one of which holds a bomb), inspired casting (Sonny Bono, Ruth Brown and Deborah Harry), crazy character names (Amber Van Tussle, Penny Pingleton, Tracy Turnblad), Divine, a love of the underdog, and terrible fashion (Ricki Lake makes the greatest entrance ever, dressed in an outfit covered with big, embroidered roaches).
It all centers around the Corny Collins dance show and its refusal to allow Black people on it save for one day a year. Lake and her buddies want to change that, and go about it using the power of every gimmicky 60's dance there is. Only John Waters could propose electroshock treatment as a cure for jungle fever, have Jerry Stiller married to Divine, have a guy unzipping his zipper during a dance number on national TV.
Sure, it became a big, Tony-winning musical, but not even that can match the candy-colored lunacy of seeing future talk show host Lake ironing her hair and dancing "The Roach." It's everything a shameful movie of one’s past can be. posted by Jeffrey at 12:16 PM Oooh!
I was just partaking in the might of FLASHDANCE this afternoon, and talking about John Waters last night. Signs of the ApOdielypse? (I didn't know Dan Monahan was 27 when he made PORKY'S.
) , but did you see the piece of shit ending to that movie?
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