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The Media Guy
CAN A MOVIE GUY who isn't particularly fond of TV help give a cable network a makeover?
Last week, when I talked to cult film director John Waters about his new foray into TV-as the star of an original scripted series that's just begun filming in New York City for Court TV-I couldn't help but remind him that he's gone on the record saying that he pretty much can't stand TV.
"But I like doing TV," he deftly clarified. (He's a favorite of talk show hosts, and has done star turns on the likes of "Homicide" and "The Simpsons.") "I've always loved being on TV."
And he insists that Court TV is one of his faves. Really. "I'm not the kind of person that comes in my house and turns on the TV, but if there's ever a network I watched, it's Court TV. I was addicted to it, certainly, during the Michael Jackson trial"-and judging from the sorts of grotesquely granular details that Waters can volunteer about the court proceedings during Jackopalooza, he has me convinced that he's an honest-to-god Court TV fanboy.
Besides, who can blame Waters for saying...