Mr Know-It-All Av John Waters

<p>No one knows more about everything - especially everything rude, clever, and offensively compelling - than John Waters. The man in the pencil-thin mustache, auteur of the transgressive movie classics <i>Pink Flamingos</i>, <i>Polyester</i>, the original <i>Hairspray</i>, <i>Cry-Baby</i>, and <i>A Dirty Shame</i>, is one of the world''s great sophisticates, and in <i>Mr. Know-It-All</i> he serves it up raw: how to fail upward in Hollywood; how to develop musical taste from Nervous Norvus to Maria Callas; how to build a home so ugly and trendy that no one but you would dare live in it; more important, how to tell someone you love them without emotional risk; and yes, how to cheat death itself. Through it all, Waters swears by one undeniable truth: "Whatever you might have heard, there is absolutely no downside to being famous. None at all."<br><br>Studded with cameos of Waters''s stars, from Divine and Mink Stole to Johnny Depp, Kathleen Turner, Patricia Hearst, and Tracey Ullman, and illustrated with unseen photos from Waters''s personal collection, <i>Mr. Know-It-All</i> is Waters''s most hypnotically readable, upsetting, revelatory book - another instant Waters classic.<br><br>''Waters doesn''t kowtow to the received wisdom, he flips it the bird . . . [Waters] has the ability to show humanity at its most ridiculous and make that funny rather than repellent'' Jonathan Yardley, <i><b>The Washington Post</b></i><br><br>''<i>Carsick</i> becomes a portrait not just of America''s desolate freeway nodes - though they''re brilliantly evoked - but of American fame itself'' Lawrence Osborne,<i> <b>The New York Times Book Review</b></i></p>