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	Ed Wood, Jr. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Wood also prided himself on the fact that he was the only film-maker other than Welles to be writer, director and usually an actor in most of his films, although it is likely that Wood took on all of these positions mostly to save time and money.
		Wood’s careers of novelist and filmmaker would often intersect in that his books would often be novelisations of his own screenplays or that the stories from his novels would give way to the writing of a screenplay.
		As Ed Wood is generally seen to be a naïve and friendly individual with high hopes but an easy-going attitude -- an image perhaps deriving from Johnny Depp's and Tim Burton's portrayal of him in the 1994 biopic -- some of his novels may be shocking to the average film/literature historian.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ed_Wood,_Jr. (2293 words)

	Ed Wood (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Ed Wood is a biopic directed by Tim Burton, stars Johnny Depp as the cross-dressing cult movie maker Edward D. Wood Jr.
		The film, shot in fl and white, was made in 1994 and based in large part on Rudolph Grey's biography Nightmare of Ecstasy.
		The film focuses on the period in Ed's life when he made his best-known films, and also his relationship with Bela Lugosi (Oscar winner Martin Landau), the down-on-his luck actor who had starred as Dracula in the film of the same name.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ed_Wood_(movie) (882 words)

	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 Biography
		Wood himself was injured, losing his front teeth to a rifle butt, ant taking several bullets in the leg.
		Ed didn't care that Lugosi was known only as a horror film actor, he wanted a name.
		Ed Wood died in 1978 aged only 53, an alcoholic with many projects still in his mind and in his battered briefcase.
	hem.passagen.se /mwrang/bio.htm (757 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)

	The Tim Burton Collective - Ed Wood Retrospective
		Ed Wood was born in Poughkeepsie, New York on October 10, 1924.
		Ed Wood was in development with Columbia Pictures but this soon changed when problems between the studio and Burton arose.
		Wood criticizes Vampira for not giving Lugosi's movie the proper amount of respect and mouths the dialogue to movies as he watches them—totally enraptured in the experience.
	www.timburtoncollective.com /edwood2.html (2502 words)

	Ed Wood (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		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
		The main thing Ed Wood had going for him was his passion for movies, which this film conveys fairly well.
		Most of Burton's films star a naive outsider who just wants to fit in and be successful in their lives.
		Wood is beside himself with joy at being able to talk to such a talented man. Lugosi, at the end of his life in the throes of a heroin addiction, hasn't made a real friend in years and is thrilled to meet a young director who appreciates him and his cinematic gifts.
	crazy4cinema.com /Review/FilmsE/f_edwood.html (950 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.
		This film is from a script that Ed Wood wrote and it seem to be one of his favorite screenplays.
		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.
	www.angelfire.com /ca3/jerrywarren/edwood.html (3223 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 (520 words)

	Sci Fi Wire -- The News Service of the Sci Fi Channel
		The 1971 movie is a porn film documenting the sexual enlightenment of a young couple at the hands of a coven of witches, the news service reported.
		Wood, who created Bride of the Monster and Plan 9 From Outer Space, was the subject of Tim Burton's 1994 film, which starred Johnny Depp as the maligned moviemaker.
		Necromania was filmed over two or three days with a budget of no more than $7,000, and the only copies went missing soon after it was made, Reuters reported.
	www.scifi.com /scifiwire/art-film.html?2004-10/28/10.00.film (271 words)

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		Ed Wood wanted to be a moviemaker, a storyteller, and he wanted to create legitimate works of art.
		The movie covers Wood’s career from wannabe director through “Plan 9" and covers his first “major” directing effort "Glen or Glenda?" That, not surprisingly – at least as portrayed in Burton’s movie – was a film about a man who feels restricted in conventional clothes and is having trouble living with this secret.
		Johnny Depp is terrific as Wood, a charmer with a weird side, but Martin Landau steals the show with his bang-on portrayal of the aging and drug-addicted Bela Lugosi.
	www.technofile.com /dvds/ed_wood.html (795 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Film \| 'Lost' Ed Wood film gets release
		Wood, often called "the worst film-maker of all time", was the subject of Tim Burton's 1994 biopic in which he was played by Johnny Depp.
		That film shows the making of Wood's most famous film, Plan 9 From Outer Space from 1956, in which actors mess up their lines and special effects include pie tins for flying saucers.
		Necromania was unearthed by Ed Wood enthusiasts Alexander Kogan and Rudolph Grey in a warehouse in Los Angeles after more than 15 years of detective work.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/film/3961395.stm (212 words)

	phillyBurbs.com \| The Ed Wood Guide
		Wood's only professional credit to this point was for the twenty minute teleplay, "The Sun Was Setting", and I can find no connection with Weiss to the program.
		Wood and Weiss separated on poor terms, but would reteam briefly at the very end of Wood's career with Weiss as initial producer of 'The Sinister Urge' (1961).
		He knew what the film was about, and somewhere inside him, I think, he knew that he was facing the last step down from his stardom.
	www.phillyburbs.com /edwood/glen.shtml (1270 words)

	Ed Wood-Special Edition
		Ed Wood has the distinction of being the worst director and writer to ever make films in Hollywood.
		The relationship between Lugosi and Wood is the strongest part of this film and Landau deserves a lot of credit for making this film as strong as it is.
		Summary-As a film buff, I've never been able to sit through an entire Ed Wood film but this enormously entertaining look at the man, Hollywood in the fifties, and a true screen legend will get you hooked fast.
	www.dvdcorner.net /html/edwoodse.html (394 words)

	ipedia.com: Bela Lugosi Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The film was a success, but Lugosi was typecast as a horror heavy with such movies as White Zombie and Scared to Death.
		Ed Wood, a long-time fan of Lugosi's, offered him numerous roles in his films, always playing some variant of a mad scientist/vampire type, even in movies in which such a role made no sense — such as Glen or Glenda.
		Ed Wood's Plan 9 from Outer Space featured footage of Lugosi — who died during filming — interspersed with a double who looked nothing like him, and Lugosi got top billing for the movie.
	www.ipedia.com /bela_lugosi.html (427 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)

	Ed Wood Movie: Ed Wood DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		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.
		With his fetishistic style of dressing in for pumps, narrow skirts and angora sweaters, Ed Wood was as much of an outsider as his actors.
		Perhaps the final irony is that ED WOOD may be one of the best films of all time about one of the worst filmmakers of all time.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/786936212501IE (671 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 (924 words)

	phillyBurbs.com \| The Ed Wood Guide
		He was the subject of a loving film biography by modern cinema rebel Tim Burton, and his "masterpiece," - "Plan 9 from Outer Space" - has been cited as Fox Mulder's favorite film.
		His films are the equivalent of a child's drawing - lacking in artistry, but crafted in love and delivered in hope that love will be accepted and cherished.
		Other films, better films, are made for love of money, and the expectation of profit.
	www.phillyburbs.com /edwood (615 words)

	The Tim Burton Collective - Ed Wood
		The long-awaited Region 1 Ed Wood DVD features a widescreen presentation of the classic Oscar-winning film and a stunning array of extra features.
		Filmed in beautiful fl and white, this is the somewhat tragic story of the worst director of all time, a man who had vision but not talent.
		The story takes place when Ed Wood is just starting out in directing, trying to get a foot in the door when he meets Bela Lugosi and with Bela, he teams up with some other misfit movie makers to make such B films as Plan 9 from Outer Space and Bride of the Monster.
	www.timburtoncollective.com /edwood.html (384 words)

	Amazon.com: Ed Wood (1994) : Video (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Ed Wood (1924-1978) is generally regarded as the single worst film maker to emerge from Hollywood.
		ED WOOD is a fascinating film in regards that a truly talented and original filmmaker such as Tim Burton would choose such an inept - yet optimistic - subject such as Edward D Wood Jnr and turn him into a viable celluloid-biography.
		Depp's Ed Wood is a friendly old freak who has every hopeful twitch of the hopeful Fifties vamping on the edge of the age of anxiety.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6303407188?v=glance (1968 words)

	Ed Wood at Hollywood Cult Movies
		Although considered by some to be the worst movie director of all-time, Ed’s films are a curiosity piece and continue to fascinate movie buffs around the world.
		Recognized on six continents as ``the worst film ever made,'' this sci-fi travesty from Ed Wood features anti-nuclear aliens whose ships look like paper plates, Tor Johnson and Vampira as zombie slaves, Bela Lugosi in two minutes of stock footage (a stand-in with a cape took his place), and narration by famed psychic Criswell.
		The life and films of Ed Wood are extensively covered in this terrific documentary that mixes rare film footage and great interviews.
	www.hollywoodcultmovies.com /html/ed_wood.html (550 words)

	Ed Wood (1994)
		Wood's films were revived as midnight favourites and the just-arrived video market allowed his films to be rediscovered.
		Considering that the hero of the story is a cross-dresser and the collection of wannabe sex changes, fake prophets and washed-up drug-addicts the film has on hand, it is remarkable that it doesn't choose to deride and poke fun at them, as indeed the Medveds did.
		The film's greatest strength is the sadness of the relationship between Wood and the down-and-out Bela Lugosi.
	www.moria.co.nz /sf/edwood.htm (921 words)

	Ed Wood Soundtrack at POOBI
		Ed Wood Lydia Kavina et al Audio CD (October 18, 1994) Original Release Date: 1994 Number of Discs: 1 The Great Lydia Kavina plays the theremin in the introductory music for this film.
		Ed Wood was a movie maker whose similarity to great artists lies solely in the fact that he...
		Ed Wood finally comes to DVD with a widescreen anamorphic transfer that preserves the original theatrical aspect ratio of 1.85:1.
	www.poobi.com /new/Ed+Wood+Soundtrack (2103 words)

	DVDBeaver.com - DVD Review - "The Ed Wood Box" Image Entertainment - Region 1 NTSC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Wood's lack of attention to detail is paramount in this film's high ranking in his ouvre.
		Running 112 minutes, the film could have been streamlined and some of the digressions removed, but that would have weakened the central premise, which is not only that Wood was in his own way a significant filmmaker, but that his charisma attracted and held this never-say-die band of collaborators.
		The film is also clearly a response to the poetic licenses taken by Burton's film, but it dovetails the supplements of that DVD beautifully, expanding one's familiarity with the characters, the atmosphere and Wood's own psyche.
	www.feature.dvdbeaver.com /film/DVDReview6/edwoodbox.htm (1627 words)

	Film Review: Ed Wood
		Call it irony, but Tim Burton has assembled a fine cast of character actors and made a film about the worst director of all time, that cost more than all of Ed Wood's movie budgets put together.
		We, the audience, side with Ed, despite the fact that if he was alive today, he would be subjecting us to some truly godawful crap (coughmichaelbaycough).
		Just as the audiences stayed away from Mars Attacks, they never even considered Ed Wood, because of the fl-and-white photography, which was a truly inspired decision.
	www.iofilm.co.uk /fm/e/ed_wood_1994.shtml (476 words)

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