A Thought on John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS

A few weeks ago, when I learned John Waters' sleazeball classic PINK FLAMINGOS was going to do a couple of midnight screenings at the Landmark Sunshine Theater in NYC, I became quite excited. It seems the past year or so, there's been a lot of retro midnight movies being shown in my city, and I've been happy to see quite a few that I've always wanted to see on the big screen since I was a kid (most notably were Jodorowsky's EL TOPO and THE HOLY MOUNTAIN). And while I've seen FLAMINGOS...