Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Simon is a Los Angeles-based journalist who covers film and TV. John Waters attends the 2024 Vanity Fair Oscar Party at Wallis ...

He has yet to see 'Cry-Baby' turn a profit, but the filmmaker couldn't be prouder that his 1990 film is now available as a 4K Blu-ray release. After John Waters made the once-improbable leap to the ...

This jumping, jiving Tony nominee is a rebellious teen comedy event! Based on the cult classic, 1990 John Waters film, Cry-Baby features a delightfully demented book from the writers of Hairspray and ...

This jumping, jiving Tony nominee is a rebellious teen comedy event! Based on the cult classic, 1990 John Waters film, Cry-Baby features a delightfully demented book from the writers of Hairspray and ...

When the musical Hairspray (based on the John Waters film) became a smash hit on Broadway in 2002, its adapters clearly hoped to try and replicate some of that success by turning to another of the ...

John Waters’s disappointing 1990 follow-up to Hairspray is another musical about Baltimore teenagers, this time about class warfare in 1954 rather than racial integration in 1962—the juvenile ...