![]() ![]() Turner’s found the crack comic timing she lost after The War of the Roses also back is the go-for-broke silliness she showed in The Man With Two Brains when Steve Martin shouted, “Into the mud, scum queen.” Warshawski, House of Cards and Undercover Blues. Serial Mom is a spirited return to form for the actress after V.I. Turner, even dressed in suburban frocks that hide her Body Heat allure, gives Waters star power to spare as Baltimore’s homicidal homemaker Beverly Sutphin. There’s no forgetting Divine’s Babs in the 1972 Waters classic Pink Flamingos as she snacked on dog shit or sucked off her son, Crackers (Danny Mills), who begged: “Do my balls, Mama.”īut enough tender nostalgia. Born Harris Glenn Milstead, Divine was a 300-pound drag diva who brought heft and heart to Waters films from Mondo Trasho to Hairspray. Waters, the writer and director of such beloved cinematic outrages as Multiple Maniacs, Female Trouble and Polyester, has been looking for a star big enough to personify his distinctively warped view of the mad, mad world since Divine died in 1988. ![]() It’s a killingly funny spoof of crime and nonpunishment that couldn’t have come at a better time for us or them. John waters and Kathleen Turner bring out the sicko best in each other in Serial Mom.
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