I Am Divine

Self - Friend & Production Designer: He'd do things like a huge, catered party at the Belvedere Hotel for all his friends. He loved being bigger than life, showing off.

John Waters: And then he would send the bill to his parents, but rip up the bill so his parents didn't know! They never saw the bills. He'd get the mail every day and just rip up all the bills until his parents' credit cards were cut off. And he would write bad checks. And the police busted him and took him home, and he said to his parents, "I did not do that.'' Just such a liar, right ? And they made him take a lie-detector test - and he passed. That's acting.