MR KNOW-IT-ALL

No one knows more about everything especially everything rude clever and offensively compelling than John Waters The man in the pencil thin mustache auteur of the transgressive movie classics Pink Flamingos Polyester the original Hairspray Cry Baby and A Dirty Shame is one of the world s great sophisticates and in Mr Know It All he serves it up raw how to fail upward in Hollywood how to develop musical taste from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it more important how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk and yes how to cheat death itself Through it all Waters swears by one undeniable truth Whatever you might have heard there is absolutely no downside to being famous None at all Studded with cameos of Waters s stars from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp Kathleen Turner Patricia Hearst and Tracey Ullman and illustrated with unseen photos from Waters s personal collection Mr Know It All is Waters s most hypnotically readable upsetting revelatory book another instant Waters classic Waters doesn t kowtow to the received wisdom he flips it the bird Waters has the ability to show humanity at its most ridiculous and make that