When Ed Wood received the extravagant award of "Worst Film Director of All Time" shortly after his death, the public's image of his work began to change. Increasingly, artistic cinemas began to project the few copies of their films that could be found, and the number of devotees of his work increased considerably. With the film Tim Burton and Johnny Depp devoted to him in 1994, Ed Wood became a cult director and an eminent figure in American B-class cinema. But while he was alive, access to nirvana of fame was Populated with disappointments that threw him to the lowest of the Hollywood dream. While notorious for their box office failures and successive rejections of critics and producers, what not everyone knows is that Wood started a writing career to pay rent and buy alcohol to forget his problems for a while.
Conceived with brash pulp and in a state of dubious sobriety, most...read more