![]() ![]() It combusts in the final chapter, titled 'Cult Leader, ' which exhorts readers to rise up against the 'tyranny of good taste, ' wear their belts off center, and infiltrate living creches. ![]() "Waters may not be a gloater, but there is a delightful lunatic glee that pulses through the book. When he calls for people to make him a cult leader of filth -having left trash behind for becoming too acceptable -it's hard for any outsider not to want to follow along." - Carolyn Kellogg, Los Angeles Times it also reveals the making of a unique American artist through his influences. "If Waters began his career by seeking to infuriate, he now has mellowed to a place of gleeful tweaking. Pass the relish, Uncle John." - Tom Carson, New York Times Book Review In a way, the best joke is that - Baader-Meinhof gang, outsider porn and all -Waters can't help revealing one very page that he's both sentimental and good-hearted. But dilettantes at liberty to skip around will find a lot to charm them. "His acolytes won't need a reviewer's say-so to lap up every word of "Role Models,". Fields: It's a gift." - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post has the ability to show humanity at its most ridiculous and make that funny rather than repellent. Unlike those gray eminences of the show-business establishment, Waters doesn't kowtow to the received wisdom, he flips it the bird. "Waters is a greater National Treasure than 90 percent of the people who are given 'Kennedy Center Honors' each December. ![]()
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