BALTIMORE — In the notorious close of John Waters’ 1972 film “Pink Flamingos,” Divine eats dog excrement off a Baltimore sidewalk.
The scene-stealing drag queen who died in 1988 “would be jokingly jealous,” Waters said, to hear that, around 50 years later, the film’s director will be one of 24 celebrities to get a star on another sidewalk: the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.
“What person ever walks down Hollywood Boulevard and doesn’t fantasize their name being a star on the Walk of Fame?” said the filmmaker, 76, who was raised in Lutherville and spent his career championing Baltimore’s misfits and other quirky characters.
