Tales Of John Waters’s First Feature-Length Talkie, ‘Multiple Maniacs’

When the film went before a board of censors 50 years ago, says Waters, “the woman cried when she saw it, and she sent it to the judge. He said, ‘My eyes were insulted for 90 minutes, but it’s not illegal,’ which was the whole point of the movie! To make something that wasn’t illegal yet.”