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Don’t Believe What You Read About ‘Liarmouth,’ Says John Waters, Whose Next Movie Is Still Up in the Air
Back at the Academy Museum for a rare screening of his early shorts, John Waters revealed where his career began … and what might come next.
Back in Los Angeles this weekend, Waters provided a candid live commentary for his first two (newly restored, practically-never-screened) short films, “Hag in a Black Leather Jacket” and “Roman Candles,” and fielded questions from the audience. “My last film was 20 years ago, but I’ve been paid to write six other ones in that time,” he told the crowd, ticking off the projects: “Four different sequels to ‘Hairspray’; [Christmas comedy] ‘Fruitcake,’ which has gone through a couple of versions that still might happen; and ‘ Liarmouth,’” based on his 2022 novel, which he dubbed “a feel-bad romance.” Clearly modeled after Warhol’s three-and-a-half-hour, two-screen “Chelsea Girls,” Waters’ much-shorter satire features characters lounging in bed, pretending to shoot up and pantomiming various sexual kinks (foot fetishes, a bondage scene set to “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’,” a ticklish ménage à trois).
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