{"version":1,"type":"rich","provider_name":"Libsyn","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.libsyn.com","height":90,"width":600,"title":"The John Waters Screenplays: A Reading and Conversation with The New Yorker\u2019s Michael Schulman","description":"Legendary filmmaker and writer John Waters joins us for a reading and conversation spanning the arc of his remarkable career, in celebration of the new reissue of his classic early screenplays, with The New Yorker\u2019s Michael Schulman. From the shocking Pink Flamingos, which established him as a household name and set a new bar for cinematic filth, to Hairspray, the sweetly triumphant story of a dance-crazy teen in 1960s Baltimore \u2014 later adapted into a smash hit Tony Award-winning musical \u2014 John Waters\u2019 films redefined the art of trash in the \u201870s and \u201880s, and in the process blew open the doors of modern independent film. And as his early screenplays attest, Waters has long been more than filmmaker \u2014 he is a towering literary filth artist, a writer of radical and subversive wit; in other words, an intellectual in reverse. In this reading and conversation covering Waters\u2019 earliest days as a filmmaker in Baltimore to his status as the auteur king of exploitation films made for art theaters, we celebrate the entire arc of Waters\u2019 singular career, to honor the reissue of six of Waters\u2019 early screenplays \u2014 Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Desperate Living, Flamingos Forever, and Hairspray. ","author_name":"92NY Talks","author_url":"https:\/\/www.92ny.org\/archives\/featured-series\/talks-podcast","html":"