John Waters on Pia Zadora: "People Secretly Root For Her" — hollywoodreporter.com

Pia Zadora, profiled in this week's issue of The Hollywood Reporter, has endured her share of knocks over the years. But through it all, she had a loyal supporter in John Waters. The cult film director -- who cast Zadora as a "beatnik chick" in 1988's Hairspray -- tells THR that he's been a huge fan since he first met Zadora and her first husband, Meshulam Riklis, at the 1981 Berlin Film Festival. The odd couple were there to promote Butterfly, for which Zadora would later be controversially rewarded with a Golden Globe. 

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