The John Waters universe is overrun with garbage, outrageous icons and campy delights, so who wouldn’t want to make smores, hike and play dress up with the Pope of Trash at his own summer camp? 
 
 Slated for September 2017, (adult) fans of the cult filmmaker behind Pink Flamingos and Polyester can make their way to Kent, Connecticut for a weekend of debauchery at Camp John Waters. There are the usual camp activities like ziplining and canoeing, alongside screenings of his films, ‘Blood Mary Bingo’, Hairspray karaoke, burlesque lessons, a ‘Scotch and Cigars’ session and a costume contest judged by the Prince of Puke. Waters will also perform a one-man show, read from his new book Make Trouble, and hang around for a Q+A. 
 
 Up to 300 campers can sign-up for the three days of filthy fun across September 22-24 2017 at Connecticut’s Camp Getaway. Alcohol’s available for an additional fee, and everyone will get an autographed copy of Make Trouble. Find more details about cabin availability and prices here. 
 
 Last one in is a rotten egg! ||||| A major lawsuit has been filed in California against Ja Rule and Billy McFarland, organizers of the Fyre Festival, the two-weekend concert in the Bahamas that was scheduled for last weekend but collapsed in disorganization before it started. The suit was filed on Sunday in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California by celebrity trial lawyer Mark Geragos, who is seeking class action status. Geragos filed suit electronically on Sunday on behalf of plaintiff Daniel Jung, who is seeking $5 million in damages for alleged fraud, breach of contract, breach of covenant of good faith and negligent misrepresentation. 
 
 The suit anticipates a class of “more than 150 “plaintiffs for whom it seeks a minimum of $100 million. Geragos will be busy over the upcoming week seeking out other litigants to join the suit, which alleges that the “festival’s lack of adequate food, water, shelter, and medical care created a dangerous and panicked situation among attendees — suddenly finding themselves stranded on a remote island without basic provisions — that was closer to ‘The Hunger Games’ or ‘Lord of the Flies’ than Coachella.” 
 
 The suit claims as its causes of action: fraud, breach of contract, breach of covenant of good faith and negligent misrepresentation and seeks a minimum of $100 million in damages. It is believed a crowd of approximately 6,000 attendees was expected to attend the festival, though it is unclear how many tickets were actually sold. 
 
 Tickets to Fyre Fest cost anywhere from $1,000 to $125,000 for luxury group packages to the event, which was to have run in two parts: April 28-30 and May 5-7 on the private Fyre Cay in the Grand Bahamas Exuma Island chain. Performers were to include Blink-182, Migos, Major Lazer and Disclosure. By April 27 social media began lighting up with reports of distressed guests, arriving to find not the luxury accommodations they’d signed up for, but a dirt field with flimsy tents. 
 
 In the past, Geragos has represented Michael Jackson, Winona Ryder, singer Kesha and politician Gary Condit in high-profile cases. 
 
 Jung claims to have spent $2,000 on his Fyre Festival ticket and airfare. For that, he and fellow “festival-goers survived on bare rations, little more than bread and a slice of cheese, and tried to escape the elements in the only shelter provided by Defendants: small clusters of ‘FEMA tents,’ exposed on a sand bar, that were soaked and battered by wind and rain.” 
 
 The commonwealth of Bahamas may well file a suit of its own. TMZ reported the Bahamas “stands to lose out on millions with the festival being called off … and tourism officials are devastated.” The Ministry of Tourism released a statement saying it is “extremely disappointed.” 
 
 ABC News reports that the festival site is now in “lockdown” by the island’s government. “Private security guards were seen Saturday protecting the main site where people had been slated to sleep in luxury tents,” ABC reported, alleging McFarland failed to pay customs duty taxes “on items that he imported for the event,” and that “he and his staff have left the items with a security company guarding it.” 
 
 Having removed promotional materials for the festival, the Fyre Fest official website now offers its explanation for the disastrous turn of events, claiming the organizers were overwhelmed by the response after news of the fest went viral. Finding the island couldn’t support the swelling crowd, it was decided “infrastructure for a festival of this magnitude needed to be built from the ground up. So, we decided to literally attempt to build a city. We set up water and waste management, brought an ambulance from New York, and chartered 737 planes to shuttle our guests via 12 flights a day from Miami.” McFarland made similar comments to Rolling Stone and in a video posted on TMZ. 
 
 To say the efforts fell short is an understatement. The suit alleges that festival attendees became virtual prisoners: “Faced with the complete lack of even the most basic amenities, as well as no assistance from Defendants, festival attendees began to panic. Predictably, Attendees began attempting to leave the island en masse, but found themselves trapped—even locked inside an airport awaiting delayed flights.” 
 
 Efforts to “escape,” the suit claims, “were hamstrung by their reliance upon Defendants for transportation, as well as by the fact that Defendants promoted the festival as a ‘cashless’ event—Defendants instructed attendees to upload funds to a wristband for use at the festival rather than bringing any cash. As such, Attendees were unable to purchase basic transportation on local taxis or busses, which accept only cash. As a result … at least one attendee suffered a medical emergency and lost consciousness after being locked inside a nearby building with other concert-goers waiting to be airlifted from the island.” 
 
 Given that the festivals organizers did not have the funds to compensate the entertainers booked to perform — and it is unclear as to whether they had insurance — speculation has begun that Geragos may go after some of the bigger name models who took part in promoting the ill-fated event. Celebrities “including Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid and Emily Ratajkowski” were cited by name in the complaint, which says they used their social media accounts “to generate ticket sales.” The website FashionLaw.com speculates the models’ participation in promoting the site may trigger a Federal Trade Commission proceeding for false advertising. 
 
 Although the Fyre Fest organizers have offered to give all disappointed 2017 festival-goers free tickets to the 2018 iteration, which they said they intend to hold in the United States, it’s clear that this isn’t going to make the problem go away and that all involved have a long legal slog ahead. 
 
 Neither Geragos, McFarland nor a representative for Ja Rule replied for requests for comment at the time this report was filed. ||||| Photo Advertisement Continue reading the main story 
 
 LOS ANGELES — Carolers dressed in Dickensian costumes sang “Silent Night” at 11:45 p.m. on Wednesday here, as a woman with a strip of shiny gold garland tied around her head handed out hot cider. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 “I could think of no place better to be on Christmas Eve than here, with like-minded people, coming together for something we strongly believe in,” said Julia Paredes, a bookstore manager. 
 
 This was not a midnight Mass. It was one of the first screenings of Sony’s “The Interview,” which improbably became a symbol of free speech in the last week as hackers who attacked the studio first got the movie withdrawn from distribution, then, after a groundswell of support for releasing it that reached the White House, watched it open after all. 
 
 As moviegoers lined up at the 331 scrappy, independently owned theaters that played “The Interview” on Christmas, it was obvious that many, like Ms. Paredes, 28, were there to make a political stand. They turned out in red, white and blue attire. At one theater in California, a ticket taker dressed up as “Uncle Sam-ty Claus.” A manager at Cinema Village in Manhattan introduced the film by reciting “America,” also known as “My Country ’Tis of Thee.” 
 
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 The number of tickets sold was not immediately available. Sony said only that it would disclose results on Friday. The studio similarly declined to report sales figures or estimates for online rentals and sales. But there were indications of strong interest: Many theaters reported sellouts, and “The Interview” was listed as the No. 1 seller on YouTube Movies and the Google Play store on Thursday morning. 
 
 The small theaters playing the film — art houses that only rarely get such a hot ticket — appeared to be doing well while doing good. Some theaters started selling souvenir soft drink cups shaped like rockets for a $6 premium over the standard drink price. Individual tickets in spots ran as high as $24. 
 
 “It’s been gangbusters,” said Christian Parkes, chief brand officer of Alamo Drafthouse, which showed “The Interview” in 19 theaters across multiple states. “Christmas Day is sold out across the chain.” 
 
 Many of the theaters playing “The Interview” did not have showtimes until midday in their various time zones. But the Cinefamily Theater — a 174-seat cinematheque here still identified on its purple neon marquee as the Silent Movie Theater — held a 12:30 a.m. screening, which is the one Ms. Paredes drove an hour from her home in Santa Ana, Calif., to attend. 
 
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 As the lights came down in the 72-year-old theater, two men appeared with microphones to make an introduction: Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg. They directed “The Interview,” a raunchy comedy about the assassination of North Korea’s ruler, Kim Jong-un. Mr. Rogen, who also stars in the film, gave a profanity-laced warm-up. 
 
 “We live near here,” Mr. Rogen said. “We just wanted to say thank you.” 
 
 “The Interview” has received mixed-to-negative reviews. (“A goofy, strenuously naughty, hit-and-miss farce,” wrote A.O. Scott in The New York Times.) But curiosity about the controversy surrounding the film at least in some instances trumped taste. “I’m just here for the hype,” said Pam Silverthorn, 49, a defense contractor, who turned out for a matinee at Williamsburg Cinemas in Brooklyn. 
 
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 Noel Rodriguez, 21, made a first-time visit to the Regency theater in Commerce, Calif., in part to participate in an unusual chapter of Hollywood history. “I just wanted to be able to say I saw it,” he said. 
 
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 Sony made its initial theatrical retreat after a threat — traced by the F.B.I. to the North Korean government — of 9/11-style violence against theaters that showed the film. The smaller theaters Sony eventually lined up to present it promised heightened security. Weezie Melancon, president of the Crest Theater in Los Angeles, said she had been in contact with the Los Angeles Police Department and the county sheriff’s department, both of which had promised an extra presence. Officers huddled with a ticket taker shortly before showtime. 
 
 Noah Elgart, 28, the manager at Williamsburg Cinemas, said his staff would be checking bags as a precaution but did not expect any problems despite the threats against the film. 
 
 Toby Leonard, programming director at the restored Belcourt Theater in Nashville, said he had been in touch with a local representative for the F.B.I. and was told “in so many words that there really isn’t much of a credible threat here.” Mr. Leonard said he also checked with the Belcourt’s insurance company, which responded “by asking if they could buy a block of tickets.” In a rare move, Sony made “The Interview” available for rental or sale online Wednesday. Among the Internet services that offered it were the Google Play store, Google’s YouTube and Microsoft’s Xbox Video. Sony began showing the film on a website of its own. 
 
 On Wednesday night, Sony’s hastily assembled online release of “The Interview” hit bumps. Some early would-be viewers could not load or pay for the film on Sony’s SeeTheInterview.com site, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Separately, users of Sony’s PlayStation and Microsoft’s Xbox Live game services — in an episode apparently unrelated to the film — complained of service problems. 
 
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 In addition, digital pirates were already offering “The Interview” online. One link had been downloaded more than 20,000 times as of Thursday morning. Although Sony has not yet made “The Interview” available overseas, it was also widely available for streaming on Chinese video-sharing sites, with an unofficial version with English and Chinese subtitles. The Chinese title for that version of the film translated as “Assassinate Kim Jong-un.” 
 
 But gratitude and patriotism ruled the day in theaters. 
 
 “The fact that they’re showing this movie shows that America still has a backbone regardless of the critics,” said Jay Killion, a golf pro who caught a screening at Tower City Cinemas in Cleveland. 
 
 At Alamo Drafthouse, screenings began with a recorded video message of thanks from Mr. Rogen to members of the Art House Convergence, an alliance of small theaters that was instrumental in reviving the film. 
 
 “Thank you, America,” Mr. Rogen added in the recording, to cheers from one audience at Alamo’s Lubbock, Tex., location.
– Baby boomers with cash and a campy bucket list take note: Movie director John Waters is hosting a summer camp for grown-ups in Connecticut. While the first iteration, slated for the third weekend in September, is already marked "sold out" (there were 300 slots) on the Camp John Waters page, dreamers of a follow-up will note that the $499 price of admission grants attendees access to a one-man show by Waters, a Q&A, a marathon viewing of his films, Bloody Mary Bingo, Hairspray Karaoke, and more, reports Dazed. Guests also receive an autographed copy of his book Make Trouble, which costs less than $10 on Amazon and may be some consolation for the fact that alcohol is not included. Waters, who just turned 71, is known for such cult classics as Pink Flamingos, Cecil B. Demented, and Polyester. His camp marries what Art News calls "two of the more absurd developments in contemporary leisure"—celebrity-based getaways and "a sort of developmental purgatory" that finds adults signing up for nostalgic recreation such as kickball leagues. Even so, there are at least 300 adults who thought this was a great idea. (Millennials can also sign up for adulting classes.)