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John Samuel Waters, Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, author, actor, stand-up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. Waters's 1970s and early '80s films feature his regular troupe of actors known as the Dreamlanders—among them Divine, Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Edith Massey. Starting with ''Desperate Living'' (1977), Waters began casting real-life convicted criminals (Liz Renay, Patty Hearst) and controversial people (Traci Lords, a former pornographic actress). Waters dabbled in mainstream filmmaking with ''Hairspray'' (1988), which introduced Ricki Lake and earned a modest gross of $8 million in the US. In 2002, ''Hairspray'' was adapted to a long-running Broadway musical, which itself was adapted to a hit musical film that earned more than $200 million worldwide. After the crossover success of the original film version of ''Hairspray'', Waters' films began featuring familiar actors and celebrities such as Johnny Depp, Edward Furlong, Melanie Griffith, Chris Isaak, Johnny Knoxville, Martha Plimpton, Christina Ricci, Lili Taylor, Kathleen Turner, and Tracey Ullman. Although he maintains apartments in New York City and San Francisco, and a summer home in Provincetown, Waters still mainly resides in his hometown of Baltimore, Maryland, where all his films are set. He is recognizable by his trademark pencil moustache, a look he has retained since the early 1970s. ==Early life== Waters was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Patricia Ann (née Whitaker) and John Samuel Waters, who was a manufacturer of fire-protection equipment. His family were upper-middle class Roman Catholics. Waters grew up in Lutherville, Maryland, a suburb of Baltimore. His boyhood friend and muse Glenn Milstead, later known as Divine, also lived in Lutherville. The movie ''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. 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). ''Cry-Baby'' was also a product of Waters' boyhood, because of his fascination as a 7-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. Waters was privately educated at the Calvert School in Baltimore. After attending Towson Jr. High School in Towson, Maryland,〔Towsontown Jr. High Yearbook, "The Key". Towson, Maryland 1959–1960, p. 33〕 and Calvert Hall College High School in nearby Towson, he ultimately graduated from Boys' Latin School of Maryland. For his sixteenth birthday, Waters received an 8mm movie camera from his maternal grandmother, Stella Whitaker. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Waters」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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