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	Ed Wood (1994) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ed Wood, of course, chronicles the Hollywood career of its eponymous subject, truly one screwed up individual; a cross-dresser with a fetish for angora, Wood churned out one horrifically bad film after another, culminating with Plan Nine From Outer Space, before descending into crappy porn films toward the end of his life.
		Wood accepts, as we must, that he was a screwed-up hack, but it never drags him down; in fact, Depp has him reveling in it, and it is that very passion that buoys up the movie.
		Ed Wood is a rare beast – it's a Tim Burton film that doesn't go overboard, it's a movie about Hollywood (sort of) that isn't self-indulgent, it's a nostalgia trip that manages not to be sappy but is still very warm and caring, and overall it's just a strikingly well-done film.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0109707 (975 words)

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	Tim Burton Dream Site - Ed Wood
		Ed Wood is a humorous and tender portrayal of a man considered to have been one of the worst directors in Hollywood history.
		Ed Wood was a man who had a secret passion for angora sweaters and ladies lingerie, he made movies such as "Plan 9 from Outer Space" with flying saucers that looked like plates hanging from string.
		Ed Wood was given his first opportunity to direct in 1954 with the movie "Glen or Glenda", a documentary style film depicting the struggles of being a transvestite.
	minadream.com /timburton/EdWood.htm (423 words)

	Ed Wood
		Ed Wood is a pulp movie about a pulp movie maker and it makes no bones about it, and once you accept that, all sorts of truths come flooding at you from all directions.
		Ed Wood actually presents a lot of information, even if the information initially invites more knee-jerk recognition than critical reflection; Wood really was a cross-dresser in real life, and he really did hire someone to walk around with a cape over half their face after Bela Lugosi died, and so on.
		Ed Wood may never have made a good movie in his life, and the film Ed Wood may not be a classic or even great, but together, they present a fascinating theory that's going to require some serious meditation.
	www.metalasylum.com /ragingbull/movies/edwood.html (1521 words)

	Ed Wood - Uncyclopedia
		Ed was born in Poughkeepsie, a city, at a very early age.
		Ed had an affinity for music, and learned to play the drums as well as various other stringed instruments.
		At the age of 17, Ed was given a Kodak movie camera, but accidentally joined the army before he could put it to much use.
	www.uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Ed_Wood (371 words)

	The Dreamscapes of Edward D Wood Jr by Susan MacDonald
		Ed Wood had his own troupe of players, a bizarre entourage of friends which included the flamboyant newspaper and television seer Criswell, blond cowlick spit-stuck to his forehead, whose dramatic future predictions were nearly always wrong.
		Ed Wood even played the lead role himself, and wanted there to be no doubt in the minds of the audience that the difficulties the hero encountered were based on personal experience.
		Ed had convinced them that they should finance a film with the teenage appeal of the time, and that this film would then generate the money needed to make twelve films about the apostles of Christ - which were the movies that the Baptist Church of Beverley Hills really wanted to make.
	www.annatambour.net /Dreamscapes_Susan-MacDonald.htm (2059 words)

	Ed Wood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ed Wood was a real man with real non existent talent who made arguably some of the worst movies ever made.
		Ed Wood discovers that George Weiss of Screen Classics is going to produce a film based on the Christine Jurgonson sex change operation.
		Ed Wood is a loving tribute to some eccentric individuals that rose far enough above their problems and obsticles to make their dreams reality.
	www.schlockaudio.com /reviews/edwood.htm (993 words)

	Ed Wood, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wood and his cohorts literally stole the octopus from Republic Studios in the dead of night, and accidentally tore off one of its legs before shooting.
		Wood also prided himself on the fact that he was the only filmmaker other than Welles to be writer, director and actor in his own films, although it is likely that Wood took on all of these positions mostly to save time and money.
		Wood's contribution to the film was appearing as a transvestite who spends his time at the party (the majority of the film) hanging out in a bedroom trying on lingerie.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ed_Wood,_Jr. (2676 words)

	The DVD Journal \| Reviews : Ed Wood: Special Edition (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tim Burton's remarkable Ed Wood (1994) is a "biopic" in roughly the same way that Patton is a "biopic." Both obviously dramatize selected portions of the lives of men whose singular achievements and eccentricities set them apart from their peers.
		Because Wood "even paratrooped wearing a brassiere and panties," what qualifies him for the job is that he "wasn't scared of being killed" but was terrified of getting wounded and having the medics discover his secret.
		Burton's affectionate homage ends with a moment of (for Wood) triumph, exulting at the premiere of Plan 9, "This is the film I will be remembered for!" Burton leaves out the subsequent years, which straight bios note were spent as an embittered, broke alcoholic scraping by on exploitation horror-porn films and doomed to obscurity.
	www.dvdjournal.com /reviews/e/edwood.shtml (2114 words)

	Ed Wood St. James Encyclopedia of Pop Culture - Find Articles
		Ed Wood "fans" have practically made an industry of ridiculing Plan 9 from Outer Space for the cheap sets, simplistic dialogue, and especially the laughable special effects, like the UFOs, which were nothing more than spinning hubcaps dangling from very visible strings.
		Wood himself descended into alcoholism and died in 1978 at the age of 54.
		In 1994, Burton released Ed Wood, a comedic tribute in which Johnny Depp was cast as the starry-eyed Wood.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g1epc/is_bio/ai_2419201329 (908 words)

	ED WOOD MOVIES
		Wood himself stars under the name Daniel Davis and plays a transvestite who can not decide if he should tell the woman he is going to marry about his desire to wear women's clothes.
		Wood himself was a crossdresser and most likely based some of it on his own life story.
		ED WOOD(1994) A big budget biopic about the life of Ed Wood (Played by Johnny Depp) It was shot in fl and white and director Tim Burton did a great job of re creating the look of Ed Wood's movies.
	angelfire.com /ca3/jerrywarren/edwood.html (3223 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Ed Wood [1994]: DVD: Johnny Depp,Martin Landau,Sarah Jessica Parker,Patricia Arquette,Jeffrey Jones,G.D. ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ed Wood defies the impossible to get his films out and he is never detered from filmaking.
		Made entirely in fl and white, Wood and his motley crew of hapless actors are portrayed with surprising sympathy as a harmless bunch of eccentrics, quite desperate for fame despite their meagre abilities.
		Ed Wood is an excellent film, which provides a fascinating insight into Wood's life and the workings of the "cheap flick" industry in the 1950s.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Ed-Wood-Johnny-Depp/dp/B00006JI3R (1445 words)

	Ed Wood: Special Edition (1994)
		Ed Wood (Johnny Depp) wants into movies in the worst way, and based on the quality of his projects, he achieves his goal: his projects are the worst.
		Ed doesn’t display the dimensionality of Lugosi, but he shouldn’t, as he’s better off as a fairly restricted personality.
		Ed Wood appears in an aspect ratio of approximately 1.85:1 on this single-sided, double-layered DVD; the image has been enhanced for 16X9 televisions.
	www.dvdmg.com /edwoodse.shtml (2244 words)

	Amazon.ca: Ed Wood (Special Edition): DVD: Tim Burton,Norman Alden,Don Amendolia,Vinny Argiro,Patricia Arquette,Ray ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ed loved movies with all his heart and soul, despite his lack of talent, and he surrounded himself with people who, like himself, were drawn to the life-changing magic of Hollywood and determined to be a part of it.
		Ed Wood (1924-1978) is generally regarded as the single worst film maker to emerge from Hollywood.
		Wood had seen Dracula, and Lugosi was a legend, and that was all that mattered.
	www.amazon.ca /Ed-Wood-Special-Tim-Burton/dp/B0000VD04M (2697 words)

	Rolling Stone : Ed Wood : Review
		Wood was determined to make it in the rebel style of his idol, Orson Welles.
		Ed Wood is more inspired than insipid, but anyone seeking a thorough documentation of Wood's life will find Burton's dark flight of fancy a cinematic nightmare before Christmas.
		Wood was ignored in life and mocked in death.
	www.rollingstone.com /reviews/movie/5947169/ed_wood (1305 words)

	ED WOOD unofficial HOME PAGE
		Ed Wood’s cult classic has been hailed as the worst film of all time, but it’s one of the most hilariously entertaining movies you’ll ever see.
		I think that Ed Wood hoped that Bunny would get the sex change operation that he was always planning and Ed could finally make the sex change movie that he had wanted Glen or Glenda to be.
		Screenplay by ED WOOD, using the pseudonym Akdov Telmig.
	garnet.acns.fsu.edu /~lflynn/edwood.html (3403 words)

	glbtq >> arts >> Wood, Ed
		Wood, Ed During his lifetime, 1950s transvestite director Edward D. Wood, Jr., also known as Ed Wood, worked diligently--if sometimes despairingly--at the margins of Hollywood, making bizarre low-budget films that went almost entirely unnoticed.
		Wood's willingness to accept, embrace, and display these eccentrics alongside himself made them both his friends and, for works such as Bride of the Monster (1956) and Plan 9 from Outer Space (1958), a seedier version of the kind of stock company that major directors such as John Ford and Orson Welles cultivated.
		Wood's unapologetic transvestism--it fueled novels with titles such as Death of a Transvestite (1967) and caused considerable grief in his personal life--was radical for its time; and his films wittily portend, consciously or not, the trash-camp of later masters such as John Waters and the Kuchar brothers.
	www.glbtq.com /arts/wood_e.html (889 words)

	"Ed Wood", by Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski
		Ed turns to a column, "The Theatrical Life, By Victor Crowley." Under this is a photograph of an old man with an ascot.
		ED In a normal studio it would be half-a-million, with all their wasteful overhead and fancy offices.
		Ed pulls a script from his briefcase and hands it to her.
	www.dailyscript.com /scripts/ed-wood.html (10166 words)

	Ed Wood - Rotten Tomatoes
		A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the undisputed "worst movie director of all time," Tim Burton's ED WOOD is nevertheless a delightful, zany, and ultimately moving film.
		Ed Wood is truly wacky with a weird sensibility that only becomes more amazing with the knowledge that just about everything in the film is true.
		Ed Wood would make a great double feature with Citizen Kane, the sad, fascinating lives of two men vying for greatness and almost achieving it.
	www.rottentomatoes.com /m/ed_wood (739 words)

	Cult Films Directed By Ed Wood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Name: Edward D Wood Jr Widely regarded as the creator of some of the worst films in the history of cinema, Wood drifted to Hollywood in 1947 and worked for a time as a stunt double and as an extra, with the already established dream of writing and directing his own films.
		Wood did manage to write, photograph and direct a short film in 1948, "Streets of Laredo", but was unable to get together the money to add on any soundtrack.
		It would not be until 1953 that Wood was able to make his first feature--and one of his most famous--"Glen or Glenda?".
	www.cult-film.com /cult_directors/ed_wood (123 words)

	Ed Wood (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ed Wood is a biopic directed by Tim Burton, starring Johnny Depp as the cross-dressing cult movie maker Edward D. Wood Jr.
		Bunny Breckinridge is depicted as an old friend of Ed Wood's, but in fact he did not meet him until the filming of Plan 9, after being introduced through their mutual friend Paul Marco.
		The background research for Ed Wood relied heavily on Nightmare of Ecstasy by Rudolph Grey (ISBN 0-922915-24-5), a full-length biography, which draws on interviews from Wood's family and colleagues.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ed_Wood_(film) (1257 words)

	eBay - Product Info - eBay - DVD: Ed Wood (UPC: 786936212501) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Ed Wood's films were masterpieces of cinematic incompetence and this movie pays homage to his tragic inability.
		Ed Wood's gift was not in his ability to make movies, but in his dogged determination to convince others that he could.
		He's Ed Wood, a director with a penchant for horror and science fiction films and a whiny girlfriend who wants to be a star (well played by Sarah Jessica Parker).
	product.ebay.com /Ed-Wood_UPC_786936212501_W0QQfvcsZ1177QQsoprZ6481778 (1546 words)

	Ed Wood (1994): Reviews
		What Burton has made is a film which celebrates Wood more than it mocks him, and which celebrates, too, the zany spirit of 1950s exploitation films - in which a great title, a has-been star and a lurid ad campaign were enough to get bookings for some of the oddest films ever made.
		Wood's career had nowhere to go, and to some extent the film has the same problem.
		The contrast between the reality of Ed Wood's life and the fantasy he creates in his mind is truly endearing-if you love great irony.
	www.metacritic.com /film/titles/edwood (992 words)

	Amazon.com: Ed Wood (Special Edition): DVD: Johnny Depp,Martin Landau,Sarah Jessica Parker,Patricia Arquette,Jeffrey ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Wood, Martin Landau as a decrepit Bela Lugosi and Bill Murray as John Breckinridge, are inspired.
		Wood is under the impression that he is reviving his career, but in reality he is just coming dangerously close to destroying his legacy.
		I'm certainly not saying that Ed Wood was known for challenging his audience (unless we're talking about endurance), but without his artistic failures we wouldn't have him to kick around all these years later.
	www.amazon.com /Ed-Wood-Special-Johnny-Depp/dp/B0000VD04M (2615 words)

	Bright Lights Film Journal \| Ed Wood
		In the '70s, while Wood was still (barely) alive in the back alleys and seedy bars of Hollywood, his films were canonized as camp, adored for their wide-eyed ineptness, startling continuity gaps, elementary-school acting, irrelevant stock footage.
		Wood's willingness to accept and embrace — and display, in his movies — these odd ducks made them seek him out, before they knew he had his own little secret: cross-dressing.
		Wood died in 1978, destitute after he and his wife (yes, he was straight!) were evicted from their last apartment.
	www.brightlightsfilm.com /16/wood.html (946 words)

	Ed Wood
		Though Wood died in obscurity as an alcoholic in 1978, his films have been considered cult classics for years.
		After all, it’s a straight-forward biopic of one Ed Wood whom history will probably remember as one of the worst, if not the worst, director of all times.
		Not much happens in the film and if your tastes are limited to slam-bang action sci-fi then I’ll recommend giving Ed Wood a miss, but if your tastes makes allowances for quirky fare (such as Burton’s Edward Scissorhands, also starring Johnny Depp) then give it a shot.
	www.scifimoviepage.com /edwood.html (342 words)

	GreenCine \| product main - Ed Wood (1994)
		Even the look of the film is right; it manages to preserve the air of one of Wood's own films while retaining a sense of artistry in much of the composition on screen (note the scene at the drug rehab where Lugosi endures a horrifying night of detox).
		In all, Ed Wood is a unique film -- at times side-splittingly funny; at others, tragic or even frightening -- and a heartfelt tribute to the love of movies, good and bad alike.
		Ed Wood is easier to embrace if one has viewed a few of Ed's charming pictures, especially his signature film, Plan 9 from Outer Space.
	www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=18876 (539 words)

	phillyBurbs.com \| The Ed Wood Guide
		From the first time he saw "Dracula" as a child of 6, he knew what he wanted to do with his life, and he pursued and fought for his dream, and he made it happen.
		Ed just wanted us to hang his stuff up on our mental refrigerators.
		Anyone further interested in the story of Ed Wood should pick up a copy of Nightmare of Ecstasy, by Rudolph Grey.
	www.phillyburbs.com /edwood/index.shtml (615 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Ed Wood [1994]: Video: Johnny Depp,Martin Landau,Sarah Jessica Parker,Patricia Arquette,Jeffrey ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Edward D. Wood Jr was an actor writer-director-producer, occasionally in drag, who combined meagre bursts of talent with an undying optimism, enabling him to create some of the most bizarrely memorable "B" movies to ever come out of Tinseltown.
		Burton tackled an extremely strange subject matter for a biopic, but Wood is presented as naive almost to the point of delusion, so the story works.
		Wood's unconventional repertoire company is faithfully reproduced, including an Academy Award-winning Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Ed-Wood-Johnny-Depp/dp/B00004D2W4 (1305 words)

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