John Waters Set For 'LIVE From The NYPL' In Bryant Park June 7

The New York Public Library presents John Waters as part of the 'LIVE Fron NYPL' series on June 7. Waters will be in conversation about his new memoir entitled 'Role Models.'

Publishers Weekley describes Waters' memoir as looking at a "range from icons like Johnny Mathis and Tennessee Williams to a gay reality-porn auteur, a lesbian stripper called Lady Zorro, and ex-Charles Manson groupie and murderer Leslie Van Houten. When he pays attention to them, Waters produces vivid portraits of his subjects, especially those with really lurid backstories, but he's happier when the spotlight is on him and his studied outrageousness. He discusses celebrity ("I've... gone out drinking with Clint Eastwood, and spent several New Year's Eve parties in Valentino's chalet in Gstaad, but what I like best is staying home and reading") and the graphic pornography on his walls, and regales readers with scatological scandals, disdaining religious beliefs while graciously tolerating people who hold them. In the end, Waters's war against "the tyranny of good taste" feels tired, his taboo-breaking rote, his kitsch-mongering snobbish (taken on a tour of the Vatican, he refuses to leave the gift shop and its "hideously pious cards")."

John Waters is the creator of such cult classics as 'Pink Flamingos', 'Desperate Living', and 'Hairspray' he continues to inject his quirky passion into a myriad projects, including penning a selection of books, staging and performing a one-man autobiographical show called 'This Filthy World', and hosted the Court TV series 'Til Death Do Us Part', amongst other ventures.

This event will take place on the Upper Terrace at Bryant Park beginning at 8pm. This event is free, seating will begin at 7pm. Seating is first-come, first-serve.

For more information visit www.nypl.org.