John Waters: 'I want to be despised'

John Waters has turned his hand to art. The ‘Pope of Trash’ takes us on a tour of his work – and explains why he performed plastic surgery on LassieI am looking at a disturbing self-portrait of John Waters. He’s wearing a tan uniform and, as if that weren’t bad enough, a matching baseball cap and a diabolical grin. In one hand, he’s holding a catching pole and, in the other, there’s a blameless mutt looking through the grille of its portable prison. The man they call the Pope of Tr