Cry-Baby
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- camp
- In camp: Camp classics in film
(1981), Hairspray (1988), and Cry-Baby (1990), American filmmaker John Waters is widely referred to as the “King of Camp.” Waters’s canon is a knowing celebration of bad taste, fully conscious of its place as camp. Featuring the acting talents of larger-than-life drag diva Divine, former teen porn star Traci…
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- discussed in biography
- In John Waters: Going more mainstream: Cry-Baby, Serial Mom, and later films
Cry-Baby (1990) starred Johnny Depp in the title role of a 1950s singing juvenile delinquent. The film’s supporting cast includes Stole, Lake, rocker Iggy Pop, former teen idol Troy Donahue, adult film star Traci Lords, and heiress-turned-leftist radical Patty Hearst. Waters called it his “dream…
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role of
- Depp
- In Johnny Depp: 21 Jump Street, Tim Burton films, and Hunter S. Thompson
…and appeared in John Waters’s Cry-Baby and Tim Burton’s Edward Scissorhands, two films by maverick directors that showcased Depp’s range. Scissorhands began a long association between the actor and director that led to Depp’s appearance in several other Burton films, including Ed Wood (1994), Sleepy Hollow (1999), and Charlie and…
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- Hearst
- In Patty Hearst
John Waters’s films, including Cry-Baby (1990) and Cecil B. DeMented (2000).
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