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Mom: Those are your new shoes, Dawn! Dawn: Those aren't the right kind! I told you cha-cha heels! Black ones! Dad: Nice girls don't wear cha-cha heels! Dawn: I'll never wear those ugly shoes! I told you the kind I wanted! You ruined my Christmas! It's at that point all hell breaks loose.

Former Reason intern Mike Riggs has a reliably amusing interview in the Washington City Paper with America's greatest pencil-mustached Baltimore patriot, John Waters.

If you only know John Waters from his darkly comic, disturbed movies - "Pink Flamingos," "Serial Mom" or his most mainstream effort, "Hairspray" - it might surprise you that the filmmaker who once wrote a hilarious essay titled "Hatchet Piece " has a soft spot for Christmas.

A&E Home Video, $149.95 Before HBO's Baltimore-based The Wire came along and blew everyone's minds , the television-consuming public was pretty much dependent on one show to foster its intimacy with Body-More Murdaland.

Share + Nov 14, 2009 11:14 pm US/Eastern Reporting Adam May 1 of 1 The creators of "Liberty Heights", "Serial Mom" and "The Wire" got together Saturday night to raise money for and awareness about Maryland's film industry.

As the Right Wing wraps Samuel Alito up in a festive black robe, hoping to sell his Supreme Court appointment for Christmas , celluloid iconoclast John Waters wants nothing more than to revel in the season - boozy familial fisticuffs, consumer despair, goopy cornflake-wreath cookies and all.

But she has also done her part to imbue such Barry Levinson memory plays as "Avalon" and "Liberty Heights" with their gnarly warmth and David Simon 's hard-hitting TV shows, "The Corner" and "The Wire," with their bluesy grit.

The projectors have stopped running, the popcorn has been swept up and bleary-eyed moviegoers have emerged back into the daylight.

CHARLOTTESVILLE - Lamenting the death of burlesque, cult artist and filmmaker John Waters announced from the stage, "This is not a lecture.

SLIPKNOT 's Corey Taylor and Sid Wilson took part in separate webcast/chats this past Halloween when the band performed at Fangoria 's Trinity Of Terrors convention in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Ticket sales for the 22nd-annual Virginia Film Festival - which begins today - have already surpassed the number sold for last year's festival.

John Waters , Barry Levinson and David Simon aren't just appearing on stage for the first time together for the Maryland Film Festival benefit on Nov.

Hollywood revels in remaking classics. This ranges from the thrillers such as The Hitcher and The Texas Chainsaw Massacre to musicals such as Annie and Hairspray.

In the 1970s, John Waters was the bad boy of fringe filmmaking with his cult-classic, X-rated Pink Flamingos .

Where does John Waters's poor taste leave off and his characters' poor taste begin? His deepest wade into the mainstream to date , this is sort of his personal American Graffiti, set in Baltimore in 1962.

What is the Virginia Film Festival? It is your plan for the weekend, resolved. Can you be more specific? Yes.

Here it is: the John Waters movie his own parents aren't allowed to watch! The dialogue and performances throughout Waters' 1972 breakthrough Pink Flamingos may not crackle with as much subversive wit as its near-perfect successor Female Trouble , but Flamingos continues to earn its legs as Waters' most offensive and most memorable picture.

If moviemaking won't come to Baltimore, Charm City's own budding moviemakers will make it happen, using all the means at their disposal - digital technology, eloquent locations and craft friendships developed in the years when this city had an amazing 2 1/2 film crews at work on movies such as "Liberty Heights" and "Cecil B. Demented," and TV shows ...

October 17, 2009 It's bad enough that we watch reality TV to begin with, but it gets worse when we give out arbitrary awards to the shows that inhibit our already lacking social lives -- the 2009 Fox Reality Channel Really Awards air tonight.

Adam Shankman, who directed the movie musical version of John Waters' "Hairspray," is returning to the genre with "Rock of Ages," a rock-themed 80s love story set to the tunes of Journey, Twisted Sister, Joan Jett, Bon Jovi, and Pat Benatar, among others.