“When I watch ‘Pink Flamingos’ now, I just think, How did we do that? But when you’re young and dumb you just kinda go for it.”

voguecom: John Waters on ‘Pink Flamingos,’ Divine, and 50 Years of Filth | Vogue

“While Hairspray might have earned the filmmaker a veneer of mainstream respectability, Pink Flamingos remains the crowning jewel in his debauched filmography. Starring his childhood friend and muse Divine, a 300-pound drag queen in cha-cha heels, the film ostensibly follows two groups of social outcasts competing for the title of “Filthiest People Alive” in ’70s Baltimore.”

– vogue.com