Oh, I used to hang out at Edie Massey’s thrift shop in Fell’s Point, and became acquainted with the Dreamlanders through her (in fact, I am a rather visible extra in Polyester). John and I kept up after I came to NY and started writing for *Movieline. *
The Eve of Your Generation, huh? Why do I feel like Rose Kennedy all of a sudden . . . ?
Movieline?Oh my, my library doesn’t carry that anymore.Twas great.
Eve!
What scene? Tell me and I will look for you!
Tut tut, my dear. That woman had spine ! She married a tyrant and bred a King.
Besides, you are the Eve for all generations…
Eve, you are just so cool.
I lived in B’more from 85 to 90, and saw most of my movies at The Charles. My favorite part of the Charles experience was John Waters “you can’t smoke in here” short, in which he gleefully consumes massive amounts of cigarette smoke.
Oh, I stopped writing for Movieline four or five years ago, when the founding editor died and was replaced by a trained chimp. Magazine is nothing but flung chimp-crap now.
I’m in the Alcoholic Anonymous scene in Polyester—I can be spotted in the audience, yelling, " . . . and? . . . and?" with everyone else. I actually had a scene with Edie, but it got cut! John owes me . . .
Eve, I have a friend in Chicago who’s know John Waters for eons. He says John told him that his greatest motivation in making “Cry Baby” was so he could get Johnny Depp to run around in his underwear. Apocryphal you think?
. . . Sounds like something John would say.
Back in the early '80s I suggested he remake Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? with Eva and Zsa Zsa Gabor, and he said, “they’re too weird even for me.” I still think it was a great idea. “I vant to buy some gin, dahling. Vhat? You have to talk vis my seester? Vait a minute, I’ll get her . . . Hello, dahling, zis is my seester.”
Har. That would be classic. I’d like him to remake “Arsenic and Old Lace” with the Gabors, or maybe the Hilton sisters . . .
NO! Arsenic and Old Lace with Harvey Fierstein and Ian McKellan! and what, Renee Zellweger or somebody in the Cary Grant part. No; Justin Timberlake. Some hot young straight boy trying to deal with his crazy gay uncles. That’s more along John’s lines. NO! JOHNNY DEPP! ohmygod. This has to happen. Ian McKellan? No: John Lithgow! Yes? No. Who? somebody stop me.
Eve said,
Or the infamous scene:
“Jane, yoo vouldn’t be tleating me like zis eef I vasn’t in zees veelchair.”
“Butchya Ahhh, Blanche! Ya Ahhhh in zat veelchair!”
Eve, but do you have a David Lynch chicken-kit? G
Thanks for explaining how you’d know him, Eve.
(Sorry I didn’t post this earlier, but I just got done with finals.)