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John Waters "always made fun of [his] culture" with his movies. The 78-year-old director and screenwriter made his name with underground cult films in the 1970s before finding further success with the 1980s films 'Hairspray' - which featured drag queen Divine and made a star out of famed talk show host Ricki Lake in the years before it was adapted into a record-breaking Broadway musical - as well as 'Cry-Baby' and admitted that his work was always meant to be a parody of the world around him. He told Flickering Myth: "What we did was make fun of the rules outsiders lived by. Divine was thought...
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Melissa McCarthy’s ‘The Little Mermaid’ make-up artist has hit back at critics who say a queer cosmetics expert should have been hired for the job. Oscar-winning Peter King, 68, has faced a backlash from ‘RuPaul’s Drag race’ contestants who think he shouldn’t have landed the contract as in the original Disney movie, which came out in 1989, Melissa’s sea witch character Ursula was modelled after drag icon Divine. Peter told Insider about their objections to him doing the job being “ridiculous” and “very offensive”: “Why can’t I do as good a job as a queer makeup artist? “That’s trying to claim ...
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'The Little Mermaid' director Rob Marshall has praised Melissa McCarthy for bringing "depth" to Ursula. The filmmaker has opened up on the decision to cast the 'Bridesmaids' actress as the iconic sea witch who steals the voice from Ariel (Halle Bailey) in the live action reboot, and how "daunting" it was to get the right person in the role, who was originally inspired by drag queen Divine. He told SFX magazine: "I love that she was originally inspired by Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead], the wonderful drag actor, who was so original and so funny. "I thought, 'Well, who’s going to be able to brin...
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