Clockwise from left: Richard Corkery/NY Daily News Archive/Getty Images; Kevin Mazur/WireImage; The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images. ... 2013 USA Director : Niels Arden Oplev Terrence Howard Young man with notepad playing with pencil instead of moustache fighting with boredom. The film Hairspray, the last movie he produced, was turned into a hit Broadway musical that swept the 2003 Tony Awards,[17] and a film adaptation of the Broadway musical was released in theaters on July 20, 2007, to positive reviews and commercial success. An advisory to readers who may be driving on this Memorial Day weekend: If, as you travel the nation’s highways, you spot a hitchhiker with a wiry build, a pencil mustache and a mischievous look in his eyes, you may not wish to pick up this person. [32], Waters hosts an annual performance titled "A John Waters Christmas", which was launched in 1996 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco, and in 2018 toured 17 cities over 23 days. He's the first Republican I'd ever vote for. [21] Filming was planned for November 2008,[22] but it was shelved in January 2009. [45] All his films are set (and shot) in Baltimore, often in the working-class neighborhood of Hampden. Waters' early campy movies present exaggerated characters in outrageous situations with hyperbolic dialogue. [9] While still a teenager, Waters made frequent trips into the city to visit Martick's, a beatnik bar in downtown Baltimore. [43], The next day, indie rock band Here We Go Magic tweeted that they had picked John Waters up hitchhiking in Ohio. [48], Waters was a great fan of the music of Little Richard when growing up. Although he maintains apartments in New York City and (since 2008) in San Francisco's Nob Hill, and a summer home in Provincetown,[33] he has mainly resided in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland for his entire life. After attending Towson Jr. High School in Towson, Maryland,[8] and Calvert Hall College High School in nearby Towson, he ultimately graduated from Boys' Latin School of Maryland. They range from Taschen art tomes such as The Big Butt Book to Jean Genet paperbacks and a Hungarian translation of Tennessee Williams with a pulp fiction cover. Waters has often worked with actor Divine and his regular cast of the Dreamlanders. It feels like an eccentric professor's study, or a carefully curated exhibition based on the life of a fictional character. Waters has characterized his art as conceptual: "The craft is not the issue here. [47] In a 2018 interview Waters answered that while he is in a relationship, they both prefer to keep their relationship private: "If you don’t keep some things private, you don’t have a personal life." From Errol Flynn to Sammy Davis Jr. to Prince, the Pencil mustache has been a staple for men who wanted to make a statement. John Waters, Pencil Mustache and All, Is the New Face of Saint Laurent. Eight thousand years ago, a pencil mustache was tattooed onto the upper lip of a Peruvian man. Clark Gable was known for his, as was one of his other famous contemporaries, Vincent Price. John Waters Presents Movies That Will Corrupt You, Midnight Movies: From the Margin to the Mainstream. [6][7], Waters was privately educated at the Calvert School in Baltimore. Waters is a bibliophile, with a collection of over 8,000 books. including some of his own work as well as pieces by 125 artists, including Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Cy Twombly, Cindy Sherman and more, to the Baltimore Museum of Art. "[40], In November 2020 Waters promised to donate 372 artworks from his personal collection, John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and artist. I sold the idea, got a development deal, got paid a great salary to write it—and now the company is no longer around, which is the case with many independent film companies these days. Prince was also the producer and director for 1966’s Cabaret, with Fosse eventually directing the musical’s movie version. [13], Waters has stated that he takes an equal amount of joy and influence from high-brow "art" films and sleazy exploitation films. When I was 19 I wanted to be Little Richard, and so I grew it in homage to him really. The sodden film director gloriously named A. Pismo Clam, in the 1940 W.C. Fields film, The Bank Dick. The pencil mustache has been a mainstay of Hollywood leading men since the 30s. An Interview With John Waters", "John Waters Takes Us on a Funny, Filthy Tour of His Fine Art", "Take Me Out, Hairspray Are Top Winners in 2003 Tony Awards; Long Day's Journey, Nine Also Hot", "John Waters. He has implausible fashion sense whether it is the selection… The mustache has remained remarkably consistent over the last 46 years, partly because the process, Waters says, is so simple. An openly gay man, Waters is an avid supporter of gay rights and gay pride. List of self-identified LGBTQ New Yorkers, "Divine fans want to build a monument to late actor", "Cry-Baby and John Waters' Journey to Broadway", "John Waters Riffs on His 50-Year Retrospective", "Teenage Girls Assaulted by Wild Animals! by Stephanie Eckardt. Biographer Robrt L. Pela says that Waters' mother believes the puppets in Lili had the greatest influence on Waters' subsequent career (though Pela believes tacky films at a local drive-in, which the young Waters watched from a distance through binoculars, had a greater effect). In addition to Divine, the group included Mink Stole, Cookie Mueller, Edith Massey, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, Susan Walsh, and others. In 2008, Waters was planning to make a children's Christmas film called Fruitcake[20] starring Johnny Knoxville and Parker Posey. [30][31], He is a contributor to Artforum magazine and author of its annual year-end list of top-ten films. As of 2021, it is the most recent film Waters directed. I think that's what America's all about."[42]. In 2004, the New Museum in New York City presented a retrospective of his artwork curated by Marvin Heiferman and Lisa Phillips. His mummified body has become the oldest existing example of tattoo art. https://www.sanluisobispo.com/entertainment/celebrities/article240199812.html “Three to four times a week, I shave with a Bic razor from the top, and use cuticle scissors from the bottom,” he says. And great dialogue. Groucho Marx as “Rufus T. Firefly” in “Duck Soup” (1933) It’s not every star that gets their own brand … It is thanks to Little Richard that the film director has the deliciously fake pencil-thin moustache that his fans know and love today. Waters played a minister in Blood Feast 2: All U Can Eat, which was directed by Herschell Gordon Lewis. In 2007, Waters became the host ("The Groom Reaper") of 'Til Death Do Us Part, a program on America's Court TV network. He's said in interviews he enjoys hitchhiking. 1:17 p.m. | Updated . Some of the most legendary figures of our time sported a good, old fashioned mustache.Whether they were subtle, pencil-thin whiskers or full-blown grandiose 'staches, each bit … His books Carsick (2015) and Mr. Know-It-All (2020) were both nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album. Waters has written and directed other successful films, including Polyester (1981), Cry-Baby (1990), Serial Mom (1994), Pecker (1998), and Cecil B. Demented (2000). Extremely influential to his creative mind, Waters said the following about seeing the film,The Wizard of Oz (1939): I was always drawn to forbidden subject matter in the very, very beginning. [26], Waters has had his fan mail delivered to Atomic Books, an independent bookstore in Baltimore, for over 20 years.[27]. The producer phones his German director, Mark Hamburger, and tells him that the picture better be good, and it better be finished today, or else! Ever since he shoplifted a copy of the Little Richard song "Lucille" in 1957, at the age of 11, Waters asserted, "I've wished I could somehow climb into Little Richard's body, hook up his heart and vocal cords to my own, and switch identities." "[42], Bidle later said: "We are polar opposites when it comes to our politics, religious beliefs. In 2011, during a visit to the Waters house in Baltimore, Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson observed: Bookshelves line the walls but they are not enough. The coffee table, desk and side tables are heaped with books, as is the replica electric chair in the hall. He was wearing a hat with the text "Scum of the Earth". “I bet if I shaved it off now there would be a mark there, or a scar, because I’ve had it for so long,” he says with a laugh. But that's what I loved about the whole trip. ... director … It is shown immediately before any of his films, and before the midnight movie showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show. This moustache is famously associated with director John Waters. “Why would I get rid of it now?”, John Waters Tells the Story of His Mustache, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/04/t-magazine/entertainment/john-waters-mustache-director.html. This pencil mustache is so thin that it looks as if it might be drawn on. The mustache just went along with my sleazy look.”, But it didn’t emerge as pristine as it appears today. [44] In Denver, Colorado, Waters reconnected with Bidle (who had made an effort to catch up with him); Bidle then drove him another 1,000 miles (1,600 km) to Reno, Nevada. “I’m really mad I don’t have the eyebrow pencil that doesn’t come off,” he says, elaborating into a joke too dirty to publish here. Waters stated that he always liked his partners having "their own life" and not being "groupies". "[24], Waters has often created characters with alliterated names for his films including Corny Collins, Cuddles Kovinsky, Donald and Donna Dasher, Dawn Davenport, Fat Fuck Frank, Francine Fishpaw, Link Larkin, Motormouth Maybelle, Mole McHenry, Penny and Prudy Pingleton, Ramona Ricketts, Sandy Sandstone, Sylvia Stickles, Todd Tomorrow, Tracy Turnblad, Ursula Udders, Wade Walker, and Wanda Woodward.[25]. In 1999, Waters was honored with the Filmmaker on the Edge Award at the Provincetown International Film Festival. His mummified body has since become the oldest existing example of tattoo art on the planet. On Ice! Towson, Maryland 1959–1960, p. 33. [41], With the motif "My life is so over-scheduled, what will happen if I give up control? The Pencil Mustache: How to Shave, Guide, Examples, and More! [11], Waters' first short film was Hag in a Black Leather Jacket.[12]. First … Waters' 1981 film Polyester starred Divine opposite former teen idol Tab Hunter. The Simpsons 20th Anniversary Special – In 3-D! American filmmaker, actor, comedian, writer, and artist, This article is about the American filmmaker born in 1946. But he was already a prolific filmmaker, then working on his fifth film and what he calls his “real” first feature, “Multiple Maniacs” (1970), which will receive a theatrical rerelease at New York’s IFC Center beginning on August 5. No need to register, buy now! “I’ve had little kids come up to me; I’ve seen people dressed like me on Halloween. In September 2015, the British Film Institute ran a programme to celebrate 50 years of Waters films which included all of his early films, some previously unscreened in the UK. He is a better known American old actor with a mustache. Obey? “It’s easy to be me.” But his favorite recent encounter was on an airplane, when he saw a woman staring at him from down the aisle. [10] Although underage and therefore not admitted into the bar proper, Waters loitered in the adjacent alley, where he relied on the kindness of patrons to slip him drinks. Dismayed by his initial attempts to grow facial hair, Waters was offered a solution by the sister of Mink Stole, a childhood friend who would make legendary appearances in the director’s movies including “Maniacs” and “Pink Flamingos” (1972), that would change his life: “Just put a little pencil on it.” Those words would help produce his most distinctive physical feature: a mustache that conveys dignity as much as it does perversity. In 2016, he received an honorary degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art. 2. [35][36] Prior to that, Waters exhibited Rear Projection in April 2009, at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York and the Gagosian Gallery in Los Angeles. Waters pre-mustache: at his typewriter in 1961 (left) and at the “Roman Candles” premiere in 1966. “I can do it blindfolded.” Since the beginning, he has filled it in with Maybelline Velvet Black, but says the pencil sharpener is getting harder to find in drug stores. “The only time I would shave it off is if I was going to prison, because I wouldn’t have the proper tools,” he relents. As an actor, Waters appeared in the television series 'Til Death Do Us Part (2007), and in the films Sweet and Lowdown (1999), Seed of Chucky (2004), Excision (2012), and Suburban Gothic (2014). Born and raised in Baltimore, Waters rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films, including Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972), and Female Trouble (1974). Waters returned to Baltimore, where he completed his next two short films Roman Candles and Eat Your Makeup. Waters also works as a visual artist and across different mediums, such as installations, photography, and sculpture. Waters' films became Divine's primary star vehicles. [14], In January 1966, Waters and some friends were caught smoking marijuana on the grounds of NYU; he was soon kicked out of his NYU dormitory. He wrote and directed the 1988 film Hairspray, which became an international success and was adapted into a hit Broadway musical. [4], The film Lili inspired an interest in puppets in the seven-year-old Waters, who proceeded to stage violent versions of Punch and Judy for children's birthday parties. Beard Pencil Filler for Men - Water Resistance, Sweat Proof, Long Lasting & Natural Finish barber Pencil, Mustache Repair Shape, Two more Pencil Replacement Tip(BLACK) 4.4 out of 5 stars 4. “I don’t want to be putting it on with a number two pencil — which I have tried — because it doesn’t work, or taking a cigarette butt and trying to fill it in, which would be a little too much for beauty.” He adds that if he ever had to go undercover in disguise, he would think about getting rid of the mustache — but even that, he wagers, might not work. Shave your beard down to just a mustache. Waters in 1973, early in his mustache days. Creep your friends out with a pencil 'stache. One of the best around! Waters, John. In 1987, Playboy magazine employed Waters, then aged 41, to interview his idol, but the interview did not go well, with Waters later remarking: "It turned into kind of a disaster. Today’s most famous pencil mustache rests on the face of director John Waters . [18] Cry-Baby, itself a musical, was also converted into a Broadway musical.[19]. Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living, which he labeled the Trash Trilogy, pushed hard at the boundaries of conventional propriety and movie censorship. He devotes a chapter to Van Houten in his book Role Models (2010).[50][51][52]. It opened me up to villainy, to screenwriting, to costumes. His most recent exhibition John Waters: Indecent Exposure was exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art from October 2018 to January 2019 and later traveled to the Wexner Center for the Arts. Feeling bad for Waters, he agreed to drive him four hours to Ohio. During live shows and speaking engagements, he says, he purposefully doesn’t acknowledge it when a fan approaches him wearing a pencil mustache in his honor — he likes to see them stiffen up and get squirmy, as if he didn’t notice their furry tribute. Puffing constantly on a cigarette, Waters appeared in a short film shown in film art houses announcing that "no smoking" is permitted in the theaters. [109], In 2016, Waters received an honorary degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore during the college's undergraduate commencement ceremony. Waters has written and directed other successful films, including Polyester (1981), Cry-Baby (1990), Seri… [34], Since the early 1990s, Waters has been making photo-based artwork and installations that have been internationally exhibited in galleries and museums. Because eighty-six years after the man with the pencil moustache pointed proudly up at the hanging corpses of two men he’d just tortured and murdered with a mob, I … Many dashing classic Hollywood stars wore the pencil mustache, including Errol Flynn, Clark Gable, and William Powell. An updated look at his super clean pencil mustache. A white man with slicked back hair, pencil mustache and blue eyes sits for portrait wearing black tuxedo on neutral background, with sly look Fake black mustache on diary with pencil. It was two people able to agree to disagree and still move on and have a great time. In recognition of the donation the museum will name its rotunda and (at Waters' request) bathrooms after him. 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The idea is. The style is neatly clipped, so that the moustache takes the form of a thin line, as if it had been drawn using a pencil.A large gap is left between the nose and the moustache. Waters was born in Baltimore, the son of Patricia Ann (née Whitaker; 1924–2014) and John Samuel Waters (1916–2008), who was a manufacturer of fire-protection equipment. [42] On May 15, 2012, while on the hitchhiking trip, Waters was picked up by 20-year-old Myersville, Maryland, councilman Brett Bidle, who thought Waters was a homeless hitchhiker standing in the pouring rain. The Wizard of Oz opened me up because it was one of the first movies I ever saw. This is the most basic pencil thin mustache style. ", Waters completed a hitchhiking journey across the United States from Baltimore to San Francisco, turning his adventures into a book entitled Carsick. The director John Waters’s famous pencil-thin mustache. “I had long hair and wore ridiculous thrift-shop shirts. “I dressed like a hippie pimp,” he says of his sartorial style during the period when he made the film. His follow-up record, Make Trouble, was produced by Grammy-winning producer, Ian Brennan, and released on Jack White's Third Man Records in the fall of 2017. Born and raised in Baltimore, Waters rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films, including Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972), and Female Trouble (1974). Interview by Robert K. Elder. Pencil Mustache. $12.49 $ 12. [29] He also serves on the advisory board of the Provincetown International Film Festival and has hosted events or presented awards at PIFF every year since it was founded in 1999. Huge collection, amazing choice, 100+ million high quality, affordable RF and RM images. John Waters doesn’t remember exactly why he first grew his iconic pencil mustache, but he does remember when: 1970. In more recent times, Hollywood director John Waters has made the Pencil something many creative types are clamoring for. [28], Waters serves as a board member of Maryland Film Festival, and has selected and hosted one favorite feature film within each Maryland Film Festival since its launch in 1999. Then, with a safety razor, shave your mustache except for the portion just above your upper lip. In 2004, the NC-17-rated A Dirty Shame marked a return to his earlier, more controversial work of the 1970s. CHANGE OF HABIT: John Waters, the director famous for wearing flamboyant suits on the red carpet, ... black shirt and polka dot cravat — and his signature pencil mustache. More recently, he performs in his touring one-man show, This Filthy World. 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[46] He is recognizable by his trademark pencil moustache. Saint Laurent Taps ‘Pink Flamingos’ Director for Ad Campaign ... he wears a sleek black tuxedo, black shirt and polka dot cravat — and his signature pencil mustache. Contractual stipulations, fake mustaches and a character called "Henry" led to James Franco's Wiseau meeting the real-life Wiseau in the comedy drama's most … But you know from the director’s beret, his German rolling R’s, his pencil-thin mustache and jodhpurs that there is no way this will happen. For other uses, see, Waters at Pen America/Free Expression Literature, May 2014, Towsontown Jr. High Yearbook, "The Key". [1] His family were upper-middle class Roman Catholics. [38][39], Waters' pieces are often comical, such as Rush (2009), a super-sized, tipped-over bottle of poppers (nitrite inhalants) and Hardy Har (2006), a photograph of flowers that squirts water at anyone who traverses a taped line on the floor. [16] Since then, his films have become less controversial and more mainstream, although works such as Hairspray, Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, Pecker, and Cecil B. Demented still retain his trademark inventiveness. But doesn’t it get annoying? [33], In 2019, the Film Society of Lincoln Center celebrated its 50th anniversary at a gala where John Waters spoke in tribute to the Center along with Martin Scorsese, Dee Rees, Pedro Almodovar, Tilda Swinton, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Moore, Paul Dano and Zoe Kazan. All of Waters' early films were shot in the Baltimore area with his company of local actors, the Dreamlanders. [3] Waters grew up in Lutherville, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore. Waters is adamantly against the idea of ever retiring the look. The film director (and sometime “John Waters impersonator”) is 71 today (April 22, 2017), which leads to this minor anecdote; even a split-second with a charismatic individual can serve as a life lesson, I suppose. [1] These were followed by the feature-length films Mondo Trasho and Multiple Maniacs.[15]. He didn’t say or do anything, my memory tells me; his pencil moustache did. [5], Cry-Baby was also a product of Waters' boyhood, because of his fascination as a seven-year-old with the "drapes" then receiving intense news coverage because of the murder of a young "drapette", coupled with his awed admiration for a young man who lived across the street and who possessed a hot rod. Thin, Straight and Long. For about a half-century—from Repeal in … John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American filmmaker, actor, writer, and artist. Trim your mustache using a pair of clippers and a very short guard. 49 ($12.49/Count) 5% coupon applied at checkout Save 5% with coupon. Thicker the better: if you are unsure of the fact whether a pencil moustache will suit your face or not … I think the witch has great, great dialogue. [2] Through his mother, he is the great-great-great-grandson of George Price Whitaker, of the Whitaker iron family. Director John Waters Hitches A Ride With Indie Band The Baltimore legend is known for his pencil-thin mustache, and for movies like Hairspray. Patricia Waters, from the collection of John Waters. Eight thousand years ago, a pencil mustache was tattooed onto the upper lip of a young Peruvian man. Find the perfect pencil moustache stock photo. It had only been six years since the Baltimore native graduated high school, and only four since he had been kicked out of NYU during a marijuana bust on campus. "[49], In 2009, Waters advocated the parole of former Manson family member Leslie Van Houten. [23] In 2010, Waters told the Chicago Tribune that "Independent films that cost $5 million are very hard to get made. The director John Waters’s famous pencil-thin mustache. Leading man: Clark Gable of Gone With the Wind fame was the inspiration for the 1930s look in the video, with a sculpted hairstyle and a trimmed, thin pencil mustache Hello sailor! But the 74-year-old writer, director, all … Waters often casts certain actors/actresses more than once in his films. “I never thought I could grow a good mustache until i really gave it a full effort, no trimming or anything for 6 months….now I know I can grow a great mustache” ... Director of Design at Versus Systems. With one slight, thin straight black line above his upper lip, you can understand everything about Waters’s work, which he calls “exploitation movies for the art theaters.”. Clockwise from left: Waters with Patricia Hearst at the “Pecker” premiere, 1998; with Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder at the “Cry-Baby” premiere, 1990; with Quentin Tarantino and Tim Burton, circa 1995. Director John Waters is a living example of someone who … It simply looks like a thin … In 2018, Waters was named an Officier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, a cultural award from the French government.[110]. The Pencil Mustache. A pencil moustache is a thin moustache found adjacent to, or a little above the lip. He wondered what she was going to say, until she approached him with a question: “Are you a magician?” Nobody has ever asked him that before, he says, and he loved it. He and Milstead met many of their later film collaborators there. And the presentation. His boyhood friend and muse Glenn Milstead, later known as Divine, also lived in Lutherville. He wrote and directed the 1988 film Hairspray, which became an international success and was adapted into a hit Broadway musical. The 'No Smoking' spot, starring Waters, was directed by Douglas Brian Martin and produced by Douglas Brian Martin and Steven M. 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