Waters is an American film director, screenwriter, actor, stand-up comedian, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films. Waters's 1970s and early '80s trash films feature his regular troupe of actors known as the Dreamlanders—among them Divine, Mink Stole, David Lochary, Mary Vivian Pearce, and Edith Massey. Starting with "Desperate Living" (1977), Waters began casting real-life convicted criminals (Liz Renay, Patty Hearst) and infamous people (Traci Lords, a former pornographic actress).
He's at it again, apparently. From the Times (my emphasis):
Ohio State University
fired the director of its renowned marching band on Thursday and
released a report describing a culture of harassment and alcohol abuse
in which students were told to mimic sex acts, march down the aisle of a
bus while others tried to pull their clothes off, and march on the
football field in their underwear.
The report,
by the Office of University Compliance and Integrity at Ohio State,
described the hazing as being by students against other students,
particularly new band members, but said that the band’s director, Jon
Waters, did not do enough to stop it.
“The misconduct described is highly sexual, frequent, and longstanding as part of the marching band’s culture,” it said.
Oops. I guess that's Jon Waters, not John Waters, a different guy altogether. Never mind.
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