Edith Massey

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Sylvia Jane Ivy McMahan

Citizen Tribune 03 Oct 2021

She is survived by her loving daughter, Janie (Greg) Massey; grandsons, Alex Massey and Wesley (Dorothy) McMahan; sister-in-law, Bernice Bewley; nephews, Hershel Ivy and Donald Ivy; and special friends, John Oliver, Pat Rice, and Janine McReynolds.

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Schock treatment: an interview with Gina Schock of the Go-Go’s

Washington Blade 30 Sep 2021

Too much of the Go-Go’s is never enough ... GREGG SHAPIRO/WASHINGTON BLADE ... How do you feel about it?. GINA SCHOCK ... Then it happens! We were all dumbfounded ... BLADE ... SCHOCK ... BLADE ... SCHOCK ... The book is full of marvelous personal history details, such as performing with the late Edith Massey, known to many from her performances in some of John Waters’ movies ... ....

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Edith Massey played the ultimate fascist monster in the finale of John Waters’ Trash Trilogy

AV Club 27 May 2021

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All John Waters Movies Ranked

Rotten Tomatoes 08 Dec 2020

All John Waters Movies Ranked. Crowned the Pope of Trash early in his career, John Waters expanded the reach of American cinema into the society’s oddest fringes with his deranged, puerile, and wholly sincere DIY movies ... #12. Mondo Trasho (1969). 43%. #12 ... Liz Renay, Mink Stole, Susan Lowe, Edith Massey ... Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey, Mink Stole.

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The Straights Must Be Crazy

The Stranger 28 Nov 2020

As Edith Massey once said, “the world of the heterosexual is a sick and boring life,” and I found renewed sympathy for the straights this Thanksgiving after gorging myself on some weird old ads for Butterball that for some reason associate turkey-preparation with heterosexual inadequacy.

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‘Go-Go’s’ doc details rise of pop punk darlings

San Francisco Examiner 29 Jul 2020

... match the campy grandeur of Baltimore-bred percussionist Gina Schock in 1979, when she blew into town to play the Warfield Theatre with Edie and the Eggs, backing late character actress Edith Massey, one of John Waters’ revolving cast of colorful Dreamlanders film stars.

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David E. Gluck, performer of infamous and uncredited role in John Waters’ ‘Pink Flamingos,’ dies

Carroll County Times 19 Jun 2020

David E. Gluck, who had an infamous and uncredited role in John Waters’ 1972 comedy “Pink Flamingos” and later worked as a computer analyst at the Social Security Administration, died June 2 from pneumonia at Sinai Hospital ... Advertisement ... Gluck joined fellow actors, some of whom included the legendary Divine, Mink Stole and Edith Massey ... Mr ... Mrs ... ....

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Elinor B. Cahn, photographer of East and Southeast Baltimore, dies

Carroll County Times 27 Mar 2020

The former Stevenson resident was 94 ... Advertisement. At age 19 she married Charles M ... Wilgus said ... While she photographed some well-known personalities, such as Edith “Edie” Massey of John Waters film fame, and then-Congresswoman Barbara Mikulski, she found herself at home with the persons who could walk to Patterson Park and often did not drive cars.

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Obituaries for 2-21-20

The Commercial 20 Feb 2020

... he was the son of Edith Helton Terry of White Hall and the late Jimmy Ray Massey, Sr.

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Spend Easter with John Waters at California's kitsch castle, The Madonna Inn

Boing Boing 05 Feb 2020

Talk about two mints in one! ... Followed by Q&A; with surprise special guests. There will also be the first annual " Edith Massey Memorial Easter Egghunt" in the Madonna Inn enchanted gardens ... .

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Screen Queen: The Johns

Q Saltlake Magazine 21 Nov 2019

Polyester ... A hysterically melodramatic spoofing of the American suburbs, the film holds up as one of Waters’ finest comedies — due in large part to the game cast, including Edith Massey as Francine’s debutante friend Cuddles, who regularly dispenses basic-mom-type inspirational bromides to soothe Francine ... The drugs, the overdose ... This is it ... Photo.

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CALLERI: Criterion Collection releases two classics, ‘Klute’ and ‘Polyester,’ for your home-viewing entertainment

Niagara Gazette 23 Oct 2019

I agree about its importance ... Also in the madcap comedy’s cast are famed 1950s teen idol Tab Hunter, playing a hunk who rescues Francine from her miasma, as well as Edith Massey, Stiv Bators, Cookie Mueller, and Mink Stole ... The extras also include archival interview footage with Waters, Moran, Divine and Massey shot during the making of the film ... .

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‘Polyester’ At After Hours At The Speed

LEO Weekly 16 Oct 2019

Starring Divine, Tab Hunter, Edith Massey and Mink Stole, the film is a satirical look at suburban life through the tale of a housewife with an uncanny sense ...

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Polyester Is Coming to the Criterion Collection. There Will Be a Free Screening at Central ...

The Stranger 05 Sep 2019

I found my birthday present. (My birthday is this Saturday, in case you want to buy me something.) ... Here are the full features on the Criterion release, which you can buy here ... * Interviews from 1993 with cast and crew members Waters, Divine, Moran, Peranio, Edith Massey, and Van Smith, featuring footage from the making of the film ... * Trailer ... * PLUS ... 1.

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Jim Jarmusch's Five Favorite Films

Rotten Tomatoes 14 Jun 2019

(Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images) ... Like his 2004 cult hit, Coffee & Cigarettes, it boasts a stellar cast and whip-smart dialogue ... John Waters ... Divine is hilariously divine, and the other actors include fabulous Waters favorite, Mink Stole, Edith Massey, and an old friend of mine, the always iconic, Cookie Mueller, who we lost quite a while ago ... .