<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/4fda009e-1698-4dce-b146-0c3226a0db10/503E145D-B049-4DC0-9F12-C90F729F5DD5/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/10/horror-films-funny-kind-ii.html" href="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/10/horror-films-funny-kind-ii.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.readforpleasure.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/10/horror-films-funny-kind-ii.html"><H2 class="post-title"><A href="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/10/horror-films-funny-kind-ii.html">Horror films: The funny kind (II)</A> </H2> <DIV class="post-header-line-1"></DIV> <DIV class="post-body"> <P></P><DIV class="firstpic"><A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000VD04M?ie=UTF8&tag=readforplea-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0000VD04M"><IMG src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_j59npxAenFo/Rx7WI8ySPrI/AAAAAAAAAf0/XD0hSUZ9uQ8/s400/EdWood.jpg" /></A></DIV></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/10/horror-films-funny-kind-ii.html"><H4>Ed Wood</H4><DIV>Film producer <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Wood,_Jr.">Ed Wood, Jr.</A> is best known for a string of B-movies in the 1950s. He wrote his own scripts, doubled as director/producer, and sometimes even took acting parts. Legend has it that he stretched his budget by stealing props from better-funded productions (notably a broken-down mechanical octopus).</DIV><BR /><DIV><A href="http://imdb.com/name/nm0000318/">Tim Burton</A>'s 1994 biopic <I><A href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000VD04M?ie=UTF8&tag=readforplea-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=9325&creativeASIN=B0000VD04M">Ed Wood</A></I> tells part of Wood's story, including the filming of his (in)famous <I>Plan 9 From Outer Space</I>, his slapdash style as a director, his fetish for angora sweaters, and his friendship with <A href="http://www.belalugosi.com/">Béla</A> <A href="http://imdb.com/name/nm0000509/">Lugosi</A>.</DIV><BR /><DIV><IMG src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_j59npxAenFo/Rx_TkcMcmYI/AAAAAAAAAgk/kU67CSnYExk/s400/DeppLandau.jpg" />Burton's take on Wood is sympathetic; <A href="http://imdb.com/name/nm0000136/">Johnny Depp</A>'s Wood is an obsessive with a good heart. <A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Landau">Martin Landau</A>'s Lugosi is doddering but he comes to life (so to speak) when talking about his glory days <A href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRaE2wq1EYs">as Count Dracula</A>. The friendship between the two men adds some sweet moments to the film; it's not all laughs.</DIV><BR /><A href="http://youtube.com/watch?v=zClYSdgVp2Y">Here's</A> the 1994 trailer:</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.readforpleasure.com/2007/10/horror-films-funny-kind-ii.html"><div align="center"><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/zClYSdgVp2Y&rel=1" height="329" width="400" wmode="opaque" quality="high" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"></embed></div></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/503E145D-B049-4DC0-9F12-C90F729F5DD5/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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