This Christmas, John Waters Wants Riots

The Pope of Trash discusses his favorite holiday.by Ciara DolanWhen teenage degenerate Dawn Davenport awakens on Christmas morning to discover her parents didn’t buy her the cha-cha heels she wanted, total anarchy ensues: She cusses her parents out, stomps on their presents, and knocks the Christmas tree onto her mother, who pleads, “Please, Dawn! Not on Christmas!”That’s how John Waters’s 1974 cult classic Female Trouble begins. Despite the Davenport family’s