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n0s4a2	Edward D. Wood	Lead	[-]
May 4 09 5:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think Ed Wood should have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. His movies are still watched and enjoyed today decades after many others have been forgotten, and he symbolizes what in large part Hollywood is all about: star-struck ambition, a desire to lose oneself in fantasy mixed with delusional grandiosity. And most of all, failure-- abysmal, ego-crushing rejection and self-destruction, out of which came art with a weird genuineness to it. I know that the memorial plaques that adorn the Boulevard of Broken Dreams are bought and paid for nowadays, but someone should do the ghost of Ed Wood a favor and recognise him in a way cheesy enough for him to have related to.
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catmandu7		#1	[-]
May 4 09 6:30 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	That would have been nice if they had done that with the release of the Ed Wood movie, it would have been easy to put the price of the star in the budget. But that was 15 years ago and I cant see anyone caring enough to raise that money, I have read that its 10000 dollars!!!
luluthebeast		#2	[-]
May 4 09 7:51 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	The price is up to $25,000 now!
Tom Powers		#3	[-]
May 4 09 8:46 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Holy Carp! No wonder Lon Chaney, Jr. still hasn't got one.
Coughcool		#4	[-]
May 4 09 11:32 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I don't have much. But I would throw in $25.00 to get it started.
PJAceto		#5	[-]
May 5 09 4:14 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	But the star should be off on a side street. A seedy side street.
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Buzz Dixon		#6	[-]
May 5 09 2:08 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Let's just cut a stencil out of cardboard, spray paint it on the side walk, take a photo, and let it go viral on the 'Net. www.SnokieStories.com www.BuzzDixon.com http://twitter.com/snokiestories
catmandu7		#7	[-]
May 5 09 4:35 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I remember Moe and Larry were going to do that, and put up thier own star to the Three Stooges, but never dis. It took them 8 years after the Stooges passing to honor them, I wonder how long before Lon Chaney Jr , certainly a deserving actor gets his due. Its a shame its just a matter of a cash transaction , rather than of merit.
Coughcool		#8	[-]
May 5 09 9:42 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	PJAceto wrote: But the star should be off on a side street. A seedy side street. Buzz Dixion Wrote: Let's just cut a stencil out of cardboard, spray paint it on the side walk, take a photo, and let it go viral on the 'Net. Nice touches. You guys are dead on. LOL
Paul Haight		#9	[-]
Jul 11 10 9:39 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Anybody familiar with a book called Ed Wood: The Early Years, by Jean Marie Stine? According to the introduction (available online here), the author knew Wood in the early '70s, and apparently the book does (or claims to do) a fair amount of myth-debunking (per Amazon: "...deflates the many myths Ed Wood, Jr. created about his own life, chronicles the youth, war years, and post-war years of the King of Cult Films, ending with his arrival by bus in Los Angeles, California in 1947"). A well-researched book along these lines would certainly be of interest, but a comment attached to a negative customer review at Amazon declares "The "Jean Stine" shuck is sheer duplicity...[the author] never met Ed Wood or any of his associates...the genesis of this "book" is telling a publisher (as agent) that I'd said yes to an Ed Wood book deal when I'd said no, keeping the advance for himself, and ruining the longtime literary agency of Forrest Ackerman". That, combined with the fact that the book doesn't seem to have attracted much notice in cult movie circles (as far as I can tell) in the eight years since it was first published, makes me think I can safely skip it, but I'd be interested to know the opinions of anybody who's actually read it. Wait. Stop. Do not enter.
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