The Kids

I just thought about that last night as I was watching it for the first time in about 10 years. I've had the two-fer DVD sets for about that length of time, but had always avoided Desperate Living. I finally gave it a chance last night and howled at most of it. It's much funnier than I ever realized it was. My only problem is how some of the dialogue is stretched until it almost snaps. Timing is essential in comedy, and the timing was off in some spots. It was almost like "come on, get to the end of the sentence already!"

Anyway, I digress - I also noticed Mink and Liz Renay both kill their husbands and run off and leave their kids in the same manner. At the risk of playing shrink, I wonder if this reflects any issues Waters might have about abandonment. I remember Mink, in a Serial Mom documentary on the Special Edition DVD, had said Waters loved having people around and felt more secure with the likes of the Peranio Bros., Pat Moran, Mink, Patty Hearst, etc., always being around. He took the deaths of Divine, David Lochary, Cookie Mueller and Van Smith (among others) very hard, and had always insisted on Marina Melin, Mary Vivian Pearce, Susan Lowe, et al, being in his films even if they didn't care for playing lead parts.

He truly cares for Mary Vivian Pearce. I think if he were straight, he would have married her.

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked.