Friend of the Gutter Beth Accomando interviews John Waters for KPBS: “With his pencil thin mustache and skinny suits, Waters is a pop culture icon as famous as his films. But at the moment, he’s not finding the financial backing to make another movie so he has simply focused his creativity elsewhere. He has been touring with a live show and recently wrote a new book, “Carsick” about hitchhiking across the U.S. It is written in three parts, the first two are fictional imagining the best rides and then the worst and then the final part is what really happened. Which gives me an idea…”