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John Waters' new feature film, Pecker, opened last week. We asked Waters about another distinctive feature, his pencil-thin mustache...
...Baltimore neighborhood Pecker (Edward Furlong), who takes pictures of its benignly weird denizens, is regarded as a sweetly beamy pest. In the New York art world, however, he comes to be regarded as a divine primitive. You can probably imagine the clash when Waters brings Pecker's blue-collar subjects together with his chic discoverers. Much more fun--as always in Waters' genially transgressive movies--are the rich portrayals of his fellow Baltimoreans, among them Christina Ricci's Laundromat Nazi, Mary Kay Place's fashion-forward thrift-shop owner and Jean Schertler's goofy grandma using a statue...
Having plopped down a reported $20 million only a year ago, Ronald Perelman, chairman of Revlon and New World Communications Group, and David Pecker, CEO of Hachette Filipacchi Magazines, were understandably interested in what their new property, Premiere magazine, had in store for its 600,000-some circulation. But interest quickly turned to interference that has now led to the resignation of two top editors and near rebellion by the staff...
Resentment began with the listing of Perelman's wife Patricia Duff on the magazine's masthead, and grew when staff members were told to use pictures of Revlon execs in a layout. It exploded last week after Pecker spiked Premiere's California Suite column when he learned of the subject: business deals involving Sylvester Stallone and the Planet Hollywood restaurant chain, which also has venture plans with Perelman...
Whatever connection the column might have drawn, it was Pecker who pulled the trigger on the story. "Premiere is a fan magazine of Hollywood," he says. "Our readers are not interested in investigative journalism." Presumably they prefer pictures of cosmetics-company executives...