![]() You will be released from sexual obsessions. You will be the same except you won't have to worry about rent or mortgages or fashionable clothes. The last of Mueller's quotes, an elegy of her intent and existence, was written shortly before her death:įortunately I am not the first person to tell you that you will never die. She was survived by her son, Max Wolfe Mueller, who appeared in Pink Flamingos. Luke in the fields in Greenwich Village alongside those of Vittorio and her dog Beauty in the Scarpati family crypt in Sorrento, Italy under the statue of Christ the Redeemer atop Corcovado in Rio de Janeiro in the South Bronx and in the holy waters of the Ganges River. Her ashes are interred in multiple locations: on the beach near Provincetown in the flowerbed of the Church of St. Mueller died from AIDS-related pneumonia on November 10, 1989, at Cabrini Medical Center in New York City, aged 40. ![]() Mueller was married to Vittorio Scarpati who died of AIDS in September 1989. Other works include the novella Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls ( Hanuman Books, 1988) and several collections of short prose. Mueller's books, How to Get Rid Of Pimples (with photos by David Armstrong, Nan Goldin, Peter Hujar) (1984, Top Stories #19-20) Ask Doctor Mueller (1996), a collection of her writings Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black (1990), a memoir and Garden of Ashes ( Hanuman Books, 1990) are cult classics. Mueller" for the East Village Eye and later served as art critic for Details. ![]() Īfter her underground film status had faded, she moved to New York and became a writer, journalist, and columnist. "Just a little female trouble, hon," she replied. When she was hospitalized for pelvic inflammatory disease in Provincetown, Waters and Mink Stole visited Mueller. In his book Shock Value, John Waters credits Mueller with the title for his 1974 film Female Trouble. She and Sharon Niesp, another Dreamlander, were lovers. Mueller subsequently starred in Waters's films, including a major role as Cookie the Spy in Pink Flamingos. In 1969, Mueller first met film director John Waters at the Baltimore premiere of his film Mondo Trasho. ![]() Mueller traveled across the country, living with groups of vagrants, and settled in places such as Provincetown, Massachusetts British Columbia San Francisco Pennsylvania Jamaica and Italy. She took a small job at a Baltimore men's department store and saved enough funds to head to Haight-Ashbury, where she continued the hippie lifestyle. In my closet there weren't many clothes, but there were tons of bottles." One of Mueller's idiosyncrasies as a teen was that she constantly dyed her hair: "'Whenever you're depressed, just change your hair color,' she always told me, years later, when I was a teenager: I was never denied a bottle of hair bleach or dye. With a swath of pivotal events in Mueller's life-including her brother's death at age 14, the result of climbing a dead tree, which collapsed on him in the woods near their home-she went on to pursue her writing, and in high school hung out with the hippie crowd. She stapled it together, wrapped it in butcher paper and Saran wrap, and placed it on the shelves of a local library in what would have been its proper place. Cookie began to write at age 11, when she wrote a 321-page book about the Johnstown flood of 1889. Mueller had many pets as a child, including many turtles (one named Fidel), a dog named Jip, snakes, and tadpoles. I remember the Erie Canal on a dismal day, the Maine coastline in a storm, Georgia willow trees in the rain, and the Luray Caverns in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia where the stalagmites and -tites were poorly lit. In 1959, with eyes the same size, I got to see some of America traveling in the old green Plymouth with my parents, who couldn't stand each other, and my brother and sister, who loved everyone. It didn't matter to me, they could call me whatever they wanted." During her childhood Cookie, along with her parents, brother Michael, and sister Judy, took road trips across the country: She was nicknamed Cookie as a baby: "Somehow I got the name Cookie before I could walk. ![]() 1995, aged 82) in the Baltimore suburbs in a house near the woods, a mental hospital and railroad tracks. Dorothy Karen " Cookie" Mueller (Ma– November 10, 1989) was an American actress, writer, and Dreamlander who starred in many of filmmaker John Waters' early films, including Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living.Ĭookie Mueller grew up with her parents Frank Lennert Mueller (d. ![]()
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