Book review: 'Role Models' by John Waters

The filmmaker writes about the figures who have inspired him, including Johnny Mathis and Leslie Van Houten. Is John Waters a victim of his own popularity? The pencil-mustached favorite son of Baltimore started out as a purveyor of the outrageous; his greatest star, the 300-pound transvestite Divine, once ate dog feces on screen. (No, it wasn't a special effect.)

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