Remembrance Of Divine
(U. of Md., 1972)
John Waters spoke first, soliciting any
soon-to-be suicides for a scene in one of his
upcoming films and explaining why we had not
been handed "barf bags" for that evening's
viewing of "Multiple Maniacs." Divine bustled
out and threw a dead fish into the audience that
spun lengthwise, coming straight for my head.
I ducked as low as possible. The fish hit some
black guys behind me who sent it flying back
onto the stage. Divine meandered through false-
ringing speech for a few minutes until he announced
in his best, theatrically-breathy vocables that,
in his next film ("Pink Flamingos," to be released
a few years later), he was going to eat dogshit.
This news received a standing ovation.
soon-to-be suicides for a scene in one of his
upcoming films and explaining why we had not
been handed "barf bags" for that evening's
viewing of "Multiple Maniacs." Divine bustled
out and threw a dead fish into the audience that
spun lengthwise, coming straight for my head.
I ducked as low as possible. The fish hit some
black guys behind me who sent it flying back
onto the stage. Divine meandered through false-
ringing speech for a few minutes until he announced
in his best, theatrically-breathy vocables that,
in his next film ("Pink Flamingos," to be released
a few years later), he was going to eat dogshit.
This news received a standing ovation.
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