Arts & Culture

For those who have never sampled the weird delights of Ed Wood’s filmmaking, the auteur’s entire “legitimate” (that is, pre-porno) feature canon is available on video. Any of his movies are worth a look for connaisieurs of the bizarre, although only two–Bride of the Monster and Plan 9 from Outer…

If the life of filmmaker Edward D. Wood, Jr., were fiction, set down more or less as Wood’s cronies tell it, it would be hailed as the great Hollywood satire. It would seem like a creation of Nathaniel West, had he survived until the Fifties, or of Tom Robbins, had…