A special shipment of Cha-Cha heels goes out to the world's greatest living filmmaker, as John Waters turns 62 today. In a recent interview with Details magazine, he was asked who he thinks his fan base is:

"They’re people who have a good sense of humor and who basically, a little bit, wished they were terrorists. They’re interested in deviant behavior; they’re interested in behavior that maybe they’d never do, and that they can’t understand—which is healthy. Everything that interests me is basically what I can’t understand or for which there’s not a fair answer—that's why it remains interesting"

His films have run the gamut from family-friendly (Hairspray) to ... less family-friendly (almost everything else). For me, his best films are the aforementioned Hairspray (the original, NOT the musical remake, thank you!), and my favorite, the truly classic Female Trouble. The first time I saw heroine Dawn Davenport threaten little Taffy with a car arial beating, I knew I had found my film god. After the break, you can see another classic scene from Female Trouble, with an older Taffy playing her favorite game, "car crash aftermath", and Dawn trying to become a model. While you're watching, tell me if you don't think that Amy Winehouse TOTALLY ripped off her look from Dawn!