Octagenarian

 Happy 80th birthday to

Director John Waters

b. April 22, 1946

Baltimore, MD

[ he has been a guest on

Finding Your Roots, hosted

by Harvard prof. Henry 

Louis Gates, Jr. ]

IMDb trivia : a well-known

bibliophile who owns 8,000+

books

Waters was given a Star on

Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2023