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There aren’t many movies like Cry Baby, just like there aren’t many directors and writers like John Waters. Both are unique and unlike anything that has come before or since.

Cry Baby hit screens at the beginning of a new decade, 1990, and celebrated a time many decades prior. It was skewering of teenage delinquent movies of the 50s with a healthy dose of weird, transgressive and musical theater. The overly dramatic time of a teenager and how rebel films of the 50s took that angst and upped to off the charts.

John Waters grew up with those films, and Cry Baby was his unique and amazing spin on that genre. Cry Baby tells the story of Wade “Cry Baby” Walker and his bizarre family and gang of Drapes. These are the weirdos and outcasts of Baltimore, the ones Waters himself would identify more with than the Squares of the story.

Johnny Depp, whose film career began with John Waters' 1990 Cry-Baby, was a surprise guest at the 9th Annual Johnny Ramone Tribute on Sunday at Hollywood Forever Cemetery, where the film was screened on the mausoleum. Depp joined a Q&A moderated by Sex Pistol Steve Jones and also featuring Waters and costars Traci Lords, Ricki Lake, Joe Dallesandro (of Andy Warhol film fame) and James Intveld (Depp's singing voice in the film and, according to Waters, "the real Hollywood crybaby"). Cry-Baby, a '50s satire, set Depp free by satirizing his then-imprisoning image as a TV heartthrob. Photos:

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'He's a really good guitar player,' Dan Auerbach tells MTV News of their MTV Movie Awards collaboration with the superstar.

By Ryan J. Downey with reporting by Jim Cantiello

The Black Keys arrive at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards

Photo: Joe Klamar/ Afp/ Getty Images

Universal City, California — The Black Keys brought Johnny Depp's inner rock star front and center on the stage at Sunday's (June 3) MTV Movie Awards, trading licks with the guitar-wielding (and increasingly tattooed) actor through a steady, polished and rollicking performance of "Gold on the Ceiling."

Depp called the band "up-and-coming legends" as he accepted the Generation Award before joining the band again for "Lonely Boy."

The Black Keys joked that their collaboration with Johnny Depp was forced on them by MTV, but the Generation Award honoree had already impressed the duo with his guitar-slinging skills during rehearsals for their surprise jam session at the Gibson Amphitheatre.

'He's a really good guitar player,' Dan Auerbach tells MTV News of their MTV Movie Awards collaboration with the superstar.

By Ryan J. Downey with reporting by Jim Cantiello

The Black Keys arrive at the 2012 MTV Movie Awards

Photo: Joe Klamar/ Afp/ Getty Images

Universal City, California — The Black Keys brought Johnny Depp's inner rock star front and center on the stage at Sunday's (June 3) MTV Movie Awards, trading licks with the guitar-wielding (and increasingly tattooed) actor through a steady, polished and rollicking performance of "Gold on the Ceiling."

Depp called the band "up-and-coming legends" as he accepted the Generation Award before joining the band again for "Lonely Boy."

The Black Keys joked that their collaboration with Johnny Depp was forced on them by MTV, but the Generation Award honoree had already impressed the duo with his guitar-slinging skills during rehearsals for their surprise jam session at the Gibson Amphitheatre.

Beverly Hills -- Announcing "1 Voice": A  Star Filled Evening of Entertainment in support of the embattled Motion Picture Home's residents and its uncertain future. The Board of Directors of the Motion Picture & Television Fund (Mptf) is committed to closing the entertainment community's historic nursing home and hospital in Woodland Hills, CA. The impending closure displaces Hollywood's most frail and vulnerable residents from their campus home in the Long Term Care facility. '1 Voice' is a celebrity-packed evening to raise industry and community awareness of the resident's plight. The Neo Ensemble Theatre is sharing an evening of all-star entertainment in support of the efforts of Saving the Lives Of Our Own, the advocacy group dedicated to keeping the residents in the Motion Picture Home and to preserving the Mptf's historic mission and promise of "taking care of our own" to all entertainment industry workers. The Los Angeles based non-profit theater...