On the heels of a new Academy Museum exhibit, the 'Pope of Trash' hopes 'the most desperate showbiz rejects walk over me here and feel some sort of respect and strength.'
touched down in Hollywood decades ago, he immediately had a run in with authorities. “I got out of my vehicle in 1970 at Hollywood and Vine and darted across the street and got a jaywalking ticket, the first one, and I never looked back,” recalled the filmmaker while standing at the podium on Monday to receive a star on Hollywood’s Walk of Fame.
Waters, surrounded by throngs of fans and well-wishers, found himself not far from that famous intersection but on the other side of a Hollywood career that has produced such films as Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, Desperate Living, Hairspray, Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, Pecker, Cecil B. Demented and others. And he couldn’t be happier with the gritty Hollywood setting. “God, here I am, closer to the gutter than ever,” quipped the 77-year-old who has long been referred to as a maestro of “trash” films or the king of filth.
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