The Egg Lady!

“No I don’t want no goddamn eggs! I want meat and potatoes!” I watched John Waters: This Filthy World last night, and in it he talks delightfully about one Edith Massey. She led a tough life, but as John Waters said she was the nicest person you could ever meet. I loved her in Female Trouble where she plays Ida Nelson. “You made Gator leave! I got something for your face motherfucker!” And there she splashes acid on Divine’s face. Simply exquisite! In the 80s she recorded two songs with her punk band Edie and the Eggs. I’ll be playing them in my podcast tomorrow. One of the best things though is the music video she was in with John Cougar Mellencamp. Yes in 1981 she won over the heart of Johnny Cougar over a party full of floozies. She died in 1984 and is interred at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetary, the same place Marilyn Monroe, Jim Backus (Mr. Howell), John Cassavetes, Rodney Dangerfield, Merv Griffin and many others are buried. Anyone feel like a field trip sometime soon?