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John Waters' teen musical is set in 1954, just before Ike gave way to Elvis. Waters, a genially deranged raconteur, has been inching toward Hollywood since making his rep decades back with scrofulous comedies (Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos) from the Baltimore underground. His big-studio debut is a gaudy, affectionate memoir of his youth, when Drapes (punks) and Squares rumbled for the heart of a girl named Allison (perky Amy Locane). Waters' hole card is Johnny Depp, the winsome tough from TV's 21 Jump Street, who radiates big- screen grace and swagger as Cry-Baby -- no easy trick, since...
...Polly Bergen. Andy Warhol icon Joe Dallesandro. Punk pioneer Iggy Pop. Legendary bad actress Susan Tyrrell. Norman Mailer's son Stephen. As a smarmily sadistic guard, Willem Dafoe. The parents of slutty Wanda (Traci Lords) are assayed by Ozzie and Harriet's own David Nelson and, in her movie debut, Patricia Hearst. The mind wanders: Is this the first time in Hollywood history that a famous abducted heiress has played mother to a famous underage porn princess...
...suffer under that burden. But in deference to stage superstition, the night before Piano Lesson started rehearsals at the Yale Repertory Theater in 1987, he began drafting his next play, Two Trains Running. A candid, joyous evocation of black street life circa 1968, it is just finishing its debut run at Yale. The episodic structure and comedic tone differ radically from Piano Lesson and Fences. The main thing the newest play has in common with them is that it too is terrific...
COWBOY JUNKIES: THE CAUTION HORSES (RCA). The Junkies are still laying down their special blend of Thorazine country -- slow, dreamy and spiritual -- but the novelty's worn dime-thin. Not so fresh as last year's exemplary debut, but the band still has mystique to burn and mystery to spare. Wait till next year...
Karl Lagerfeld, the most aggressive exponent of the skirtless look, had bright, jaunty jackets that were nipped in at the waist. Claude Montana, still smarting from his disastrous debut as Lanvin's couturier in January, produced a rigorous collection dedicated to Andy Warhol. What he took from the painter was Popsicle colors and hard, clean lines. His tops were laser...