{"id":402,"date":"2015-04-14T17:01:40","date_gmt":"2015-04-14T17:01:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=402"},"modified":"2015-04-14T17:04:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14T17:04:11","slug":"motion-picture-purgatory-ed-wood-1994","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/?p=402","title":{"rendered":"MOTION PICTURE PURGATORY: &#8220;Ed Wood&#8221; (1994)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t laugh snidely at the films of Ed Wood. I find them encouraging. Unjustly renowned as the world\u2019s worst filmmaker, he was a frustrated transvestite in real life &amp; managed to put together &amp; star in his own highly personalized, heroically frank semibiographical GLEN OR GLENDA about the hazards of cross-dressing, a potentially difficult enough proposal to embark on nowadays, never mind when it originally came out in 1953. In this review I explore the later part of Ed Wood\u2019s career that Tim Burton\u2019s biopic\u00a0<i>didn&#8217;t<\/i>\u00a0go into, culled from the highly recommended book Nightmare of Ecstasy (Rudolf Grey, Los Angeles, Feral House, 1992). This is probably my favorite Burton flick. The heading for this Motion Picture Purgatory which originally appeared in a 2005 issue of The Montreal Mirror was \u201cWoody for <em>Wood<\/em>!\u201d (To see image full-sized, click on it to open in a new window &amp; use the magnify function).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ed_wood.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-403 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ed_wood-671x1024.jpg\" alt=\"ed_wood\" width=\"627\" height=\"957\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ed_wood-671x1024.jpg 671w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ed_wood-197x300.jpg 197w, http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/ed_wood.jpg 936w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Original art for sale for $100.00 CAD. Includes three items total: The pencil art preliminaries, the original finished B&amp;W inks (signed &amp; dated by author\/artist Rick Trembles in pencil on the back), &amp; a color newsprint tear-sheet (or B&amp;W gray tones, depending on when it came out) from where it was originally published. Postage &amp; framing not included. Motion Picture Purgatory Volumes One &amp; Two available at <a title=\"FAB Press\" href=\"http:\/\/www.fabpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAB Press<\/a>. For original art info, contact Rick Trembles @ ricktrembles (at) hotmail (dot) com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don\u2019t laugh snidely at the films of Ed Wood. I find them encouraging. Unjustly renowned as the world\u2019s worst filmmaker, he was a frustrated transvestite in real life &amp; managed to put together &amp; star in his own highly personalized, heroically frank semibiographical GLEN OR GLENDA about the hazards of cross-dressing, a potentially difficult [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-motion-picture-purgatory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=402"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":404,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402\/revisions\/404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.snubdom.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}