A Dirty Shame News

Our fellow alt-weekly Washington City Paper just put up an online Q&A with Baltimore's own John Waters to coincide with his Dec.

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.

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.

Lest we forget -- and how could we? -- he once convinced an overweight transvestite actor named Divine to devour something freshly deposited on the pavement by a dog.

A Dirty Shame is a tale of marauding sex addicts who wage a pitched battle against the morally upright citizens of Harford Road.

CHARLOTTESVILLE - The University of Virginia and the Virginia Film Festival welcome cult artist, photographer, author, actor and filmmaker John Waters to Grounds Nov.

Before "Bandslam" came along, Maryland-bred actor Gaelan Connell's biggest role was Michael Darling in Irene Lewis' 2002 Center Stage production of "Peter Pan." "I got to fly," he whoops.

Webb's previous work has screened at The Houston International Film Festival, Clermont-Ferrand, and has won him a Panavision New Filmmaker Award.

PRESS RELEASE LA International Short Film Festival Kate Zabinsky kezabinsky@gmail.com http://lashortsfest.com/ Alex Webb Writer/Director of "Hove " alexpelican@aol.com HOVE , STARRING OLYMPIA DUKAKIS, TO SCREEN AT THE LA SHORTS FILM FESTIVAL Screening on July 23, 2009, 3:15pm Hove , will screen at the 2009 LA Shorts Film Festival with performances ...