John Waters Loses his Head on ‘Feud: Bette and Joan’

4/11/17

By Ed Gunts, Baltimore Fishbowl

Chalk up another campy TV appearance for Baltimore’s John Waters.

The Baltimore filmmaker on Sunday portrayed one of his favorite directors, William Castle, on the FX series “Feud: Bette and Joan,” which recounts the ongoing feud between movie star rivals Bette Davis and Joan Crawford.

In the episode that aired last night, Waters gets his head chopped off by actress Jessica Lange, playing the character of Joan Crawford, who in turn played the villain of Castle’s 1964 horror film, “Strait-Jacket.”

Waters opened the show by appearing in silhouette, the way Alfred Hitchcock did on his programs. He was portraying Castle, standing on stage in a theater and about to introduce Joan Crawford for a promotional screening of “Strait-Jacket.”

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