I say it like that, b/c i have been to Baltimore, on more than one occasion, and in more than one decade....................my maternal grandfather and I drove from Rehoboth in Delaware to Baltimore to buy a ton of books for cheap at a huge warehouse in Baltimore,,,,,,,,,,,,,it was the type of place where u could buy books and comics in bulk b/c the new bookstores would sell back titles they could not sell..............and so to make room for new stuff, would sell those books to places like we went to, and i went there more than once...........this warehouse in Baltimore had more than new books and comics......in fact, those two types were in the minority..........the majority of what was in the warehouse was porn....................an the warehouse was big, as in like 3 city blocks.

John Waters

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For the director born 1893, see John Waters (director born 1893). For other uses, see John Waters (disambiguation).

John Samuel Waters Jr. (born April 22, 1946) is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, stand-up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. Waters's 1970s and early '80s films feature his regular troupe of actors known as the Dreamlanders—among themDivine, Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Edith Massey. Starting with Desperate Living (1977), Waters began casting real-life convicted criminals (Liz Renay, Patty Hearst) and controversial people (Traci Lords, a former pornographic actress).

Waters dabbled in mainstream filmmaking with Hairspray (1988), which introduced Ricki Lake and earned a modest gross of $8 million domestically. In 2002, Hairspraywas adapted to a long-running Broadway musical, which itself was adapted to a hit musical film that earned more than $200 million worldwide. After the crossover success of the original film version of Hairspray, Waters's films began featuring familiar actors and celebrities such as Johnny Depp, Edward Furlong, Melanie Griffith,Chris Isaak, Johnny Knoxville, Martha Plimpton, Christina Ricci, Lili Taylor, Kathleen Turner, and Tracey Ullman.