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For more than 30 years, John Waters has been pushing the boundaries of taste.

With his films that feature some bizarre and terrifying and super gross and just super

distasteful stuff, with his public appearances and public persona, basically in every possible

way he can.

And of course, what's so wonderful about John Waters is that every time he does it, it's

basically delightful.

His new book is called Roll Models.

It's about some of the folks that he admires most in the world.

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