It takes a special woman, even with the dedicated assistance of a special husband, to challenge a deranged, poop-chewing drag queen; an obese, toothless, egg-gulping retard hag; and a feckless poultry perv to a contest to determine who are "the filthiest people alive," and that special woman, at least as portrayed in the midnight classic Pink Flamingos (1972), is Mink Stole. Skinny, strident, and shameless, Stole burst into underground prominence as one of travesty director John Waters's first super-duper stars, a cadre of gritty prole freaks from Baltimore whose working-class confrontationalism was a refreshing, unpretentious counterbalance to the socialite superstars slumming in the Andy Warhol Factory up north. Although her string of films for the Maryland maniac spans from Roman Candles (1966) to A Dirty Shame (2004), Mink distinguished herself from most of Waters's other collaborators by carving out a niche career in B-list TV and film fare that includes Lost Highway (1997), Pink as the Day She Was Born (1997), and But I'm a Cheerleader (1999).