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 Director John Waters and Cognac Wellerlane at the “Female Trouble” Screening at the Directors Guild Theatre – Photography by Shane Gritzinger
Tomorrow night 60-year-old ageless underground filmmaker and flamboyant Director Mr. John Waters will make his debut on Court TV on a new cable TV series,”Til Death Do Us Part”. Darlings this could be a whole new career for Mr. Waters.
It is Mr. Waters’ first starring role in a weekly TV production. Break a leg John, as we say in show Business! Congratulations darling!  I  will be watching.Â
My favorite film director, Mr. Waters had told me about this upcoming TV production when I last met up with him at the “Female Trouble Screening” at the Directors Guild Theatre back in October. He had mentioned to me that the project was in the works and soon to air on Court TV.
To get a visual idea of what the series is about reminisce Alfred Hitchcock, The Twilight Zone
and Rod Serling’s Night Gallery.
The series is based on real life troubled marriage scenarios with disgruntle spouses murdering
each other. This will be the first scripted drama for Court TV famous for its live courtroom
drama coverage and legal talk-show divas such as blonde intellectual beauty Nancy Grace.
Waters with his trademark pencil thin mustache and impeccably dressed portrays The Groom Reaper, a snide and snooty character who appears at the beginning and end of each dramatic episode commenting sarcastically on marriage, love, death and murder darlings….!!!
Film director, John Waters grew up in the 1950’s in Baltimore Maryland. Mr. Waters has
always had a fascination with violence and gore, both on the screen and in real life
making him extraordinary from other children growing up in America at that time.
In collaboration with his eccentric friends as his cast he started filming and producing
silent 8mm and 16mm films in the mid-’60s; he screened these in rented Baltimore church halls to underground audiences drawn by word of mouth and street leafleting campaigns. His shocking films at the time drew a discreet audience because of their content and humor.
Waters continued to make low-budget shocking movies with his Dreamland repertory company until Hollywood crossover success came with Hairspray (1988) in 1987.
He also has held more than a dozen onscreen roles most of them are loveable shady sleazy characters which range from a used car salesman in the 1986 film “Something Wild”
directed by Jonathan Demme to the paparazzi in “Seed of Chucky, a Don Mancini 2004 production.
He has been quoted as saying “I don’t seek out acting jobs. I don’t go to auditions. …
It must be the look. My mustache precedes me. It gets me the roles,” he says.
“And you know what? I used to hear old ladies in Baltimore say,
‘You find a good look, and you stick with it.”Â
Which is why darling you have been a huge inspiration to me.Â
Where do you think I got this big platinum hair from darlings?Â
Marilyn Monroe, Bridget Bardot, Jayne Mansfield and John Water’s movies.
Until my next Celebrity Story Darlings,
Pink Champagne Kisses
Cognac Wellerlane