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Divine Trash

1998 documentary film by Steve Yeager

Manuscripts, fine bindings, an engraving plate and preserved performance ephemera
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 5, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

Divine Trash is a 1998 American documentary film directed by Steve Yeager about the life and work of filmmaker John Waters, and the making of the 1972 film Pink Flamingos, which is written and directed by Waters and stars Divine.

Editorial summary

“Divine Trash” enters the record as 1998 documentary film by Steve Yeager. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Divine, Trash and documentary can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Divine, Trash and documentary.
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Why this record matters

“Divine Trash” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Divine, Trash and documentary provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 5, 2026. The first chronological checks are 1998 and 1972.

Critical limits

Rights, attribution and provenance may remain disputed even when a general reference summary presents a stable account. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Divine Trash” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.