John Waters offers his personal tribute to the multi-talented Divine, a comic actor best known for his female impersonation, with these two short films, "The Diane Linkletter Story" and "The Neon Woman," featuring a seldom-seen filmization of one of ... Read More
Renegade filmmaker and noted aficionado of expressive bad taste John Waters exploded into international infamy with this darkly comic, no-budget parade of the perverse (his third feature film, and first in color), in which plus-size cross-dresser Divine stars as Babs Johnson, a flashy criminal on the lam from the FBI who is hiding out in a trailer outside of Baltimore, MD. Accompanying Babs are her mother (Edith Massey), an obese and dim-witted woman who…Read More