PAGE 10 / THE RETRIEVER FEBRUARY 27, 1990 Waters to shock UMBC SEB features March 7th (From Waters, page 9 beings as Yahoos in the climactic the Squares and the Drapes, set in book ofGulliver's travels (1726). In 1954. SIGMA ALPHA EPSILON into her dressing room. Kim Rei- both his films and his books, Waters Recently, three UMBC Theatre senweber (UMBC '87-'89), who is concerned with the entertainment majors who appear in these films tries to vamp Johnny Depp in the value to be found in trash.'To talked about their experiences film, sits off by herself, reading a understand bad taste, "he writes in working with Waters. Auditions for presents book about acting. Robert Tyree his book Shock Value(\9%\), "one both films were held at Cignel, a (UMBC '87-'89), leader of the must have very good taste." Like bar-nightbclub at Charles and Conks, listens with his gang to rap Swift, Waters uses the shock tech- Lafayette. Kim Reisenweber, who music by Public Enemy. Others in nique to puncture our pretensions played the 16-year-old Carmelitain the cast munch on snacks or catch or illusions, romantic or otherwise. "Hairspray," says, "I showed up for The Series up on their sleep. In "Hairspray," for example, the the audition dressed all wrong, in Waters glances up at the rolling intiocent young lovers are standing the late 60's hippie style instead of dark clouds and calls to Johnny in an alley under a starry sky—as the early 60's." She danced briefly Depp, "Do your anti-rain dance!" they meet in a tender kiss, a large and then was asked to read one line: "Cry Baby" will not be released rat is seen to scurry across their feet. "Exactly how many sweaters do you * ATO Birthday Bash until April, but the UMBC com- "There is such a thing as good bad own?" Three weeks later she was munity can see his last film, "Hairs- taste and bad bad taste," he writes. called back to make a videotape, pray," plus two shorts here on "I could make a film about people as if she were doing a dance number Wednesday, March 7, from 8 p.m. getting their limbs hacked off, but on the Corny Collins Show. Not- March 1, 1990 (this Thursday) to 10 p.m. and again from 10 p.m. this would only be bad bad taste ified at last that she had the part, to 12 p.m. in Lecture Hall II as part she returned for fittings, makeup of the SEB Film Series. The next (including white lipstick, which for 9:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. evening at 8 p.m., Waters will a time provided the film's working appear at the UMBC Ballroom and title), and extensive dance rehear- talk about his work. Admission will "I could make a sals before the shooting ("John is Ballroom be free. very organized"), which lasted Beginning with his first feature- film about people about eight weeks. At first she had length film, "" getting their limbs trouble learning the dance steps, the (1969). Waters has delighted an Mashed Potato, but in the end she ever-increasing cult audience with hacked off, but this did it well enough to have just her a cinematic sideshow of freaks, would only be bad dancing feet filmed in a demonstra- * SAE Founders Day Party geeks, and weirdos recruited from tion shot: "Those are my yellow his stable of actors. In "Multiple taste and not very shoes you see doing the step." She Maniacs"(1970), for example, his also remembers feeling a little favorite star, a 300-pound transv- stylish or original." intimidated by the cliquishness of March 8, 1990 estite called , is raped by a the teenagers in the film: "Those 15-foot lobster. His next film, "Pink kids were not acting-they were little Flamingos" (1972), features two snots." Divine, however, encour- 9:00 p.m. - 1:00 a.m. families vying for the title of "The and not very stylish or original." aged her throughout the making of Filthiest ( People Alive" and ends Both "Hairspray" (1988) and the film and inscribed her copy of with Divine performing an act of "Cry Baby" (1990) mark a turning Crackpot (a book of collected Commuter Cafe coprophagy. These films, along point in the filmmaker's essays by Waters, published in with "" (1977) and career. Backed by big bucks at last 1986): "You've got what it takes— "Polyester"(1981), have earned (surely "venture" capital in the go for it." Waters such titles of dubious truest sense of the words), Waters According to Kim, when the distinction as The Prince of Puke, has gone mainstream with two auditions were held for "Cry Baby," The Sultan of Sleaze, and The relatively respectable films for a the competition was tougher, and *Pre-Daytona Party Ayatollah of Crud. nationwide audience—"It's the only she feared she might not get the Some people find it easy to' shock I had left for my public," he juicy part of Lenora—"A lot of dismiss Waters and his work as said on a recent Channel 13 inter- professionals showed up because of being merely perverse or disgusting. view. Both films are essentially the success of'Hairspray'." She was sponsored by: But he is a satirist in the ironic musicals, "Hairspray" dealing with asked to dance to a 50's song ("slow tradition of Jonathan Swift, starstruck Baltimore teenagers who and seductive") and then to read a although in a gentler vein, more appear on a popular local TV show whole page of Lenora's lines. As she SAE and Phi Kappa Psi Horatian than Juvenalian in spirit. in 1962, and "Cry Baby," a Balti- was leaving the building, she was Nothing in his films can match more version of "West Side Story," March 15, 1990 Swift's nasty portrayal of human involving two rival juvenile groups, (See Waters, page 14) 9:00 p.m.- 1:00 a.m. Combating sexual imagery (From SHS, page 9) unparalleled "commitment'-' pro- how to do a calculus problem, but vided by the Office of Student yet when it comes down to actually Commuter Cafe Education from Towson State Affairs, and proudly points to solving a personal problem. . . do University, and followed that with successful workshops and pro- they know how to clarify values? Beer w/ID a master's in Guidance Counseling grams. She seems to wish, though, Do they have support systems DJ from Loyola College. that even more students would tap where they can sit back and say, Weise, 30, seems quite comfor- Health Services as the invaluable 'You know, I'm really confused table with her present roles as resource she describes it to be. about these issues?" guidance counselor, health educa- "One of the things which bothers Weise is confident that "Putting tor, and administrator. She speaks us at Health Services. . . is that The Pieces Back Together" and enthusiastically of Health Services' students could get very high SAT its corresponding workshops will THE STUDENT innovative programs, lauds the grades, come in knowing a lot about provide some of the answers. FATNTS BOARD presents Nurses DR. GARY WEAVER FROM

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