Liarmouth: A feel-bad romance

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You go much deeper in their lunacy than you can in a movie, where you just have to show it or say it.

Waters wrote and directed the comedy film Hairspray (1988), which was later adapted into a hit Broadway musical and a 2007 musical film. They pass the Roland Park neighborhood, and Marsha chuckles out loud over all the memories she has of ripping off that much-loved supermarket on Roland Avenue where longtime faded-gentry families sign the bill on house credit. An homage to the death of blonde bombshell Jayne Mansfield, the piece evokes a serial killers’ trophy or a beauty-queen catfight gone-wrong.Notable guests have included Debbie Harry, Patricia Hearst, Kathleen Turner, Mink Stole and Randy Harrison. It feels like an eccentric professor's study, or a carefully curated exhibition based on the life of a fictional character. That awful pause before my parents rushed to free her, my own stunned silence as I dared not ask if Granny’s gifts to us had been damaged, and the wondrous, glorious sight of the now semi-crooked tree, with balls broken, being begrudgingly hoisted back to its proper position of adoration. That they could be such a minority, that they felt there were “bouncists”—people who hated bouncers.

She is your enemy in an airport and after you read this book, you will want to watch your bags a little closer. I wouldn’t know about that as I never managed to get further than a few pages into this strange novel. Strangely, one book I expected to see in this list is ‘A Confederacy of Dunces’ by John Kennedy Toole.She remembers to flush the already-clean water in the house’s toilet several times a day just so it will be pristine enough to receive her regularly scheduled but oh-so-spare eliminations with the proper hygienic welcome. In Denver, Colorado, Waters reconnected with Bidle (who had made an effort to catch up with him); Bidle then drove him another 1,000 miles (1,600 km) to Reno, Nevada.