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  • Director John WatersAuthor/Director John Waters (Photo by Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

    John Waters riding a bike? It's possible that the only place on the planet that you can see this freewheeling "Hairspray" director pedal a two-wheeler is in Provincetown, Massachusetts.

    One week a year, the pencil-mustached provocateur becomes the unofficial mayor of this gay holiday mecca during the Provincetown International Film Festival, which opens today and runs through Sunday.

    In honor of its fifteenth year, Waters, who also penned the essay collection "Role Models" recommended five fest films featuring alternative role-models as varied as porn star Linda Lovelace, Waters' leading lady Divine, and pioneering African-American comedienne Moms Mabley.

    "Lovelace" titillates Waters

    "I'm dying to see "Lovelace," Waters said about the opening night East Coast premiere. That's the Linda Lovelace biopic with Amanda Seyfried ("Les Miserables") as the 1970's porn star. "I saw 'Deep Throat.' I read all the books Lovelace wrote. I'm torn. She ranged from saying feminism made her do it, to

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  • Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock in 'The Heat'Melissa McCarthy and Sandra Bullock, drunk dancing in 'The Heat' (Photo: 20th Century Fox)

    They're drunk. They know it. They're here to show it.

    Emboldened by a whole lot of liquid courage, Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy bust some moves to the tune of Dee-Lite's 1990 dance hit "Groove Is in the Heart" in a scene in "The Heat" — here first on Yahoo! Movies.

    But don't worry. The actresses and real-life moms weren't really bombed.

    Watch 'The Heat' Clip — Drunk Dancing:

    "It was a day of trying to remember what it was like when we used to drink," Bullock said recently of her sloshed-up scene during the London premiere of the cop comedy. "We don't do that anymore. We're mothers, so we don't imbibe at all… ever," the 48-year-old actress added with a smirk.

    Bullock revealed that much of the sloppy-drunk scene ended up on the cutting room floor, and she was thankful for that "because it was an embarrassment to both Melissa and

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  • (Photo: From The Hollywood Reporter)Do you have a few bucks you can spare? If so, James Franco would really like to talk with you.

    James Franco has become the latest celebrity to experiment in crowdfunding. On Monday, the "This Is The End" and "Oz: The Great and Powerful" star posted a page on the fundraising site Indiegogo, seeking to raise $500,000 for a new film project.

    In this case, Franco plans to produce three feature-length films based on short stories from his 2010 book "Palo Alto," with four promising students from New York University's film program writing and directing -- Bruce Thierry Cheung, Gabriel Demeestere, Vladimir de Fontenay, and Nina Ljeti. The stories touch on experiences of coming of age in Franco's hometown of Palo Alto, California, where the films will be shot.

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