The Who, What and Wow of Geena Davis

If there is a normal career path for Academy Award-winning actresses, Geena Davis certainly isn’t following it. Prior to being Oscarized in March for her performance in The Accidental Tourist as a dog trainer at the Meow Bow Animal Hospital who is in love with a reluctant travel writer, Davis’…

Coarse Proves Popular

“How much difference is there between `gosh darn’ and `God damn’?” asks D.C. Martin, Grand Canyon College’s chairman of religious studies. “Is it the spelling of the words, or is there a technical difference between the two?” Those were some of the questions that prompted Martin to teach a class…

Wood Stock

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…

The Abominable Showman

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…