Mark Waters: Not Heathers, but a modern-day John Hughes movie

For Mark Waters, hanging out with plastic women, people who get a sexual charge out of reenacting JFK’s assassination, and teenagers who act like African wildlife is all a part of the job. Literally. Clad in wrap-around sunglasses, close-cropped hair, a 12 O’clock shadow, black sweatshirt, blue jeans and black Nikes, there’s nothing to give away the fact that he’s a movie director. Not even the mid-morning cup of Starbucks or the biscotti. Nothing betrays Mark Waters’ secret identity as a movie director Nonetheless, starting with the art house black comedy The House of Yes in 1997, Waters has proven himself as a deft director of comedies. His biggest hit so far was last year’s remake of Disney’s Freaky Friday, starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan. Now Waters has re-teamed with Lohan on Mean Girls, a teen comedy with... [read full story]                    

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