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Article: Pink Flamingos November 1972: John Water's trailer-trash masterpiece flabbergasts an unsuspecting nation and launches the career of Indie darlings divine and Mink Stole. (Bold beginnings).
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- The Advocate (The national gay & lesbian newsmagazine)
- Article date:
- November 12, 2002
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Part of the legend of Pink Flamingos is that those of us in front of the camera were non-pros. Hah! I say. We may not have been classically trained, and God knows we had no union, but we worked as hard as any Hollywood actors--and under worse conditions for virtually no money. We did it for love--the material, of the process, and of course, of John Waters. And in our own naive suburban way, we knew we were movie stars in the raw, mere moments from discovery by the major studios. We'd be loved by the masses and have fabulous clothes, mansions, cars, and money, money, money.
Well, the studios haven't called, and the big bags of money have yet to materialize, but ...