MOVIES - Feb. 9, 1989

Director John Waters, who once described his movies as “comedies for a special audience who think they’ve seen everything” and who attained cult status as a quirky director with “Hairspray” and “Polyester,” is giving his scripts, scrapbooks, costumes and other memorabilia to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn. His collection joins that of Clint Eastwood, Frank Crapra, Ingrid Bergman and Elia Kazan, among others, who have donated their papers to the school’s Cinema Archives. “It’s a massive collection, and because he is an active film maker, it will continue to come to us over the years,” said the university’s archives curator.