From
the inside flap
“No
one knows more about everything─especially rude, clever, and offensively
compelling─than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the
transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray,
Cry-Baby, and A Dirty Shame, is one of the world’s great
sophisticates, and in Mr. Know-It-All he serves it up raw: how to fail
upward in Hollywood:; how to develop musical taste, from Nervous Norvus to
Maria Callas: how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would
dare live in it; more important, how to tell someone you love them without
emotional risk; and, yes, how to cheat death itself. Through it all, Waters
swears by one undeniable truth: ‘Whatever you might have heard, there is
absolutely no downside to being famous. None at all.’
“Studded
with cameos, from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp, Kathleen Turner,
Patricia Hearst, and Tracy Ullman, and illustrated with unseen photos from the
author’s personal collection, Mr. Know-It-All is Waters’ most
hypnotically readable, upsetting, and revelatory book─another instant Waters
classic.”
Review
Know-It-All is an
amusing, smart-minded and sometimes laugh-out-loud read from the Pope of Filth,
who dispenses advice, anecdotes and observations, gleaned from his years of experience.
As one might expect, his advice is sound, his stories sometimes are a bit
dirty, and humor laces many of observations. While it is not one of my favorite
books by Waters─some of his wilder tangents lost me─it is worth reading, maybe
owning for a few bucks.
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