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| "Black Book" (USA) | 2005, Iss. 38, pg. 76-78+80, by: Rachel Resnick, "Freak Out" |
| "The Austin American-Statesman" (ISA) | 20 May 2004, by: Chris Garcia, "John Waters Brings in the Trash" |
| "The Independent" (U.K.) | 22 September 2003, by: David Usborne, "John Waters: The joy of sex" |
| "Time Out New York" (USA) | 10 July 2003, Iss. 406, pg. 6, "3 questions for John Waters, trash auteur" |
| "Out" (USA) | December 2001, pg. 62, by: Michael Musto, "John Waters" |
| "Borås Tidning" (Sweden) | 29 January 2001, Vol. 175, Iss. 27, pg. 14, by: Mats T Olsson, "Den dåliga smakens mästare" |
| "Dagens Nyheter" (Sweden) | 29 January 2001, Iss. 27, pg. B 4, by: Nicholas Wennö, "Terrorister Waters nya passion" |
| "Mojo" (UK) | November 2000, Iss. 84, pg. 26, "'All Back To My Place': John Waters: Auteurrorist" |
| "Entertainment Weekly" (USA) | 8 September 2000, Vol. 1, Iss. 558, pg. 48-49, by: Rob Brunner, "Urbane Guerrilla" |
| "DGA Magazine" (USA) | January 1999, Vol. 23, Iss. 5, pg. 6-7+102-103, by: Ted Elrick, "From Underground Movies to Independent Films" |
| "Cinema" (Greece) | January 1999, Iss. 97, pg. 106,107, by: Konstadinos Kontovrakis, "A Baltimorian in New York" |
| "Vex" (USA) | 1999, Iss. 4, pg. 30, by: Lawrence Ferber, "Treading Violent Waters" |
| "Indie" (USA) | September 1998, pg. 30-31, 40, by: Cliff Rothman, "Still Waters" |
| "Premiere" (UK) | July 1997, Vol. 5, Iss. 6, pg. 64-69, by: John Clark, "Cool Waters" |
| "Us" (USA) | May 1997, Iss. 232, pg. 109, by: Laura Reiley, "John Waters" |
| "Premiere" (USA) | April 1997, Vol 10, Iss. 8, pg. 39, by: Marc S. Malkin, "Idol Chatter" |
| "Penthouse" (USA) | August 1994, Vol. 25, Iss. 12, pg. 14, by: Marcia Pally, "Film: John Waters" |
| "Fangoria" (USA) | May 1994, Iss. 132, pg. 36-38,+69, by: Maitland McDonagh, "Life With Serial Mom" |
| "Out" (USA) | July 1993, pg. 34+36, by: Jennie Livingston, "Desperate Re-Living" |
| "Playboy" (USA) | May 2006, Vol. 53, Iss. 5, pg. 28, by: John Waters, "John Waters's Top 10 Film Books" |
| "The Friday Review (Guardian supplement)" (UK) | 13 February 2004, pg. 12-13, by: Holland Cotter, "How to Make an Exhibition of Yourself" |
| "Film Comment" (USA) | May 2003, Vol. 39, Iss. 3, pg. 17, by: Chris Chang, "'Sound and Vision': John Waters" |
| "Total Film" (Hungary) | June 1999, Iss. 4, pg. 70-71, by: Györgyi Albert |
| "HQ" (Australia) | January 1999, Iss. 62, pg. 58-61, by: Laura Miller, "In the pubic domain" |
| "Madison" (USA) | November 1998, Vol. 1, Iss. 1, pg. 48-49, by: Henry Kraft, "Treacherous Waters" |
| "Amarcord" (Italy) | 1996, Vol. 2, Iss. 5, pg. 17-24, by: Nicola Biancotti & Igor Molino Padovan, "Il cattivo gusto come regola d'arte" |
| "Oui" (USA) | November 1978, Vol. 7, Iss. 11, pg. 37, by: John Waters, "Casting For the Heavies" |
| "Out" (USA) | June 2002, pg. 122, by: Alexei Hay, "Face Time" |
| "Cinema" (Hungary) | January 1995, Iss. 38, pg. 11, by: Bert Büllmann, "A szomszédék Jonnyja" |
| "The Advocate" (USA) | 25 June 2002 |
| "Steppin' Out" (USA) | 20 February 2002 |
| "IFCRant" (USA) | July 2000, Iss. 2 |
| "DGA Magazine" (USA) | January 1999, Vol. 23, Iss. 5 |
| "Time Out New York" (United States) | 10 April 1997, Iss. 81 |
| "Paper" (USA) | April 1994 |
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