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Filmmaker spotlights Tab Hunter, 'elder statesman of old Hollywood' Documentary-maker Jeffrey Schwarz has a fondness for outsize showbiz personalities.

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

Beta Bridge, swathed in pink and gold paint, welcomes filmmaker John Waters , who brings his sold-out "This Filthy World" one-man show to Culbreth at 4pm today.

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.

Filmmaker Jeffery Schwarz is taking on a documentary version of famed 1950s star Tab Hunter's autobiography.

If you'll imagine the New England Confectionary Company in Revere to be Willy Wonka's magical estate, then Union Square - where the Somerville Arts Council hosted an outdoor presentation of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory in Smellovision this past Friday - would be the analogous working-class outskirt from where Charlie Bucket hails.

Derek McCormack's The Show That Smells isn't your average read. It reads like a screenplay and features Lon Chaney, Italian fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli and an unfortunate country singer suffering from consumption.

THE smell of sweaty socks and teenage aftershave wouldn't be the obvious choices to improve a trip to the cinema.

Although he did not score well with the critics, Tab Hunter managed to parlay his all-American blond good looks and wholesomeness into screen stardom, becoming an idol for 1950s teenagers who adored his boy-next-door.... Although he did not score well with the critics, Tab Hunter managed to parlay his all-American blond good looks and wholesomeness ...

WHEN TIMES GOT TOUGH in the 1970s, people took to '50s nostalgia for comfort. These days, it's the happy days of the 1980s people seem to want.

Repetition is not necessarily a good thing. Or funny. That's worth noting here, because the ideas that practice makes perfect and things are funnier in threes are said to have been the early inspirations for this group show.