Dreamlanders

And yeah, it's, it's done in that style.

I mean, I don't, I don't think a lot of these people had much of an acting background before, so it kind of felt like, I mean, it very much felt like a, a key text for John Waters, maybe like leading up to the movies that he would make with the, with the Dreamlanders, um, kind of that very, um, um, a certain way of reading lines that is very, very loud and kind of stilted, um, in a way that I've just have come to really appreciate mostly from watching his movies, but then going back and watching these, like I enjoy them more and I don't, they don't feel like as, as, um, I guess trashier disposable as I might've thought, like if I watched them 10 years ago, cause I can kind of see, I feel like he's shown me what he saw that was special about them.

Um, so that was a good, a good one and always fun to kind of check off an Agfa release.

So that was teenage gang Debs from 1966.

We'll be bringing on an expert to discuss your response.

Roz, John Waters drew from a recurring troupe of actors from his beloved Baltimore called the Dreamlanders.

Of all the Dreamlanders that have worked with John Waters, two are known for appearing in all of his feature films, Mary Vivian Pierce and Mink Stoll.

For up to three points, give us these numbers.

First, how many feature films make up the entire John Waters oeuvre so far? Next, what year was the first one Mondo Trasho released? And what year was the most recent one A Dirty Shame released? And we'll give you all of these within two.

Now, in Los Angeles, there are a lot of people who would hesitate to agree with me.

But in general, around the world, when I have said this, people have said yes.

But as the Dreamlanders, we were a group that we continually worked together.

But-

But anyway, you're right, it's basically Dreamlanders.

Yeah, and there's kind of a, a double-edged sword here, right? Because when we were talking about Dolgeng, there is a level of disgust with this kind of, uh, world of poverty, drug abuse, and depravity that becomes really Black Lodge and evil.

Mm-hmm.

Right.

Waters was assembling this troop of local misfits who were later known as the Dreamlanders.

And Divine quickly became his absolute ultimate muse.

It really makes me think of like a superhero origin story in reverse.