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The John Waters Interview: Sheila Dixon, Teabagging, and Blowing Up the Three ...

: So, Sheila Dixon , mayor of Baltimore. Stole gift cards, now convicted .

John Waters : You know, I feel bad for her. I think she was doing a good job as mayor. I guess she probably did it, I wasn’t there for the trial every day. I saw the jurors be interviewed, and they seemed very conscientious, very intelligent, very sober about it. I think she should have to serve a couple of weekends in jail and still be mayor, even though I know that’s not possible.

WCP : But that might give her some perspective.

JW : Well, it’s not up to me. Look, believe me, I taught in prison. If people leave her alone in there, it’ll teach her a lesson.

Source: Washington City Paper

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, Which I’ve still inexplicably never seen), but for the most part, a “movie” was a straight-to-video half-hour program purchased from the local Christian bookstore or borrowed from the church library: McGee and Me, Gerbert, Psalty the Singing Songbook, and, eventually, Veggie Tales.

But we celebrated Christmas, and at Christmas, it was different. Whether it was some kind of nostalgic thing or the fact that there were a lot of family-friendly movies on television, most of my movie-watching was done at Christmas. I would watch the (animated Boris Karlov-voiced) – films with which we are truly obsessed? Is it because they warm our hearts, or is it because they reflect a reality in our own crazy Christmases? Is it because we love the movies as movies, or because we love that they remind us of the cycle of our lives – that unlike our families and situations, they don’t change from year to year?

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The John Waters Interview: Sheila Dixon, Teabagging, and Blowing Up the Three ...

Washington City Paper - Dec 02, 2009

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