John Waters To Release Family-Friendly Remake Of Pink Flamingos, You Know, For Kids

“I’ve always said that if you took out the sex and the violence, that it is a children’s story because it’s the battle of the gross-out, and that’s what most kids’ books are now,” John Waters recently told the NYT about his upcoming plans to turn his 1972 cult classic Pink Flamingos into a family-friendly story.

“Kiddie Flamingos” will feature an all-kid cast, who will “wear candy-colored wigs, cat-eye glasses and at least one pencil-thin mustache (drawn on, of course)” while they are filmed doing a table read of the new script.

We’re having a hard time imagining how the film could be toned down, but Waters insists he’s adapted the script to a G level.

That means no obscenities and more rewrites than we can count. That whole impregnating hitchhikers and then selling their babies plot line? Now it’s children stealing talking dolls from wealthy families.

But while foul language and overt grossness may have been removed, don’t think for a second that Waters is trying to lose his edge.

He hopes the result is “even more perverse than the original, because it’s transforming innocence into a whole new kind of joyous, G-rated obscenity.”

“Kiddie Flamingos” will be on view Jan. 9 through Feb. 14 at the Marianne Boesky Gallery in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan.

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Elliot Russell is a self-identified pansexual feminist engaged in a Kickstarter campaign to fund a record with a queer framework that also respects women.

Called “Reimagining R&B,” the campaign from this New York-based artist is slated to culminate in a 4-song EP. In an industry often slammed for being rooted in misogyny and homophobia with little to no queer representations, Elliot’s work has the potential to be groundbreaking.

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The Huffington Post: What is your vision for this EP?
Russell Elliot: The Russell Elliot EP is a step towards honoring the writer’s commitment I have tattooed on my wrist: “tell it like it is.” If half of the authenticity, fearlessness and honesty I hope to channel into this project comes through to listeners, I will be a happy, happy man. Ultimately, my vision is to speak candidly about my own experiences (in love, lust, frustration, indignation, etc.) with a clarity and confidence I wouldn’t have been able to unearth in another time and space.

The hip hop and R&B communities have historically been noted for being rooted in misogyny and homophobia. How do you aim to combat this through your work?
R&B is a tough genre for queer voices because of this. I’m voicing my own experiences — the likes of which I haven’t heard much in R&B (shout out to you, Frank Ocean, for being one of the great exceptions). I hope that one day someone who feels alienated in the current R&B climate will come to feel included because they hear a voice like mine talking about a life like mine. Sometimes cultural change is also about what we don’t say — or refuse to say. I refuse to demean / debase / objectify / reduce other people. I hope my music can exemplify that we don’t need to do these things to have a hit R&B record.

How does your identity as a pansexual feminist inform your work?
My identity as a pansexual feminist informs my work insofar as it informs my identity. The same is true of me being a musician — it all informs what I do as I tell stories from my lived experience. I’m so happy that my music, the stories I tell and the worldview I create through can contribute to important growing dialogues on cultural change.

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