John Waters recovering after car accident: ‘It hurts when I laugh’

Cult filmmaker John Waters is on the mend after a car accident in Maryland led to a brief hospitalization this week. “Since it hurts when I laugh I will have no witty answer about being in a car accident that no one has said was my fault,” Waters, 78, wrote in a statement on Tuesday. “Hope you understand. I’m released from the hospital and all is OK.” The accident occurred on Monday in Timonium, just north of Waters’ native Baltimore, when a 2012 Chevrolet cargo van whose driver ran a...