John Waters & his “Role Models”: KPFK Wed. 6/9

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JOHN WATERS — filmmaker, actor, writer, mensch — will be live in-studio to talk about his new book ROLE MODELS.  It’s a self-portrait by the man who made cult classics “Hairspray,” “Pink Flamingos,” and “Cecil B. Demented” –writing about the people who have inspired him: Little Richard, Johnny Mathis, and ‘Manson girl’ Leslie Van Houten — he says “it’s time to parole her.”
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It’s the KPFK fund drive: please call 818-985-5735 and pledge during the hour, and we can send you a copy of John Waters’s new book Role Models as a thank you gift — or the DVD of “Hairspray.”
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Also this hour:  HAROLD MEYERSON will comment on yesterday’s primary elections. He’s op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and editor at large of the American Prospect, where he wrote yesterday about “Why Republicans Should Give Up on California.”