Ed Wood

Criswell: Can your heart stand the true facts of the shocking story... of Edward D. Wood, Junior? [from opening monologue] Ed Wood: I'm Ed Wood, I'm here about directing the Christine Jorgensen picture. George Weiss: Well, a couple of things have changed. It ain't gonna be the Christine Jorgensen story no more. Goddamn Variety had to put the story before I got the rights. Now that bitch is asking for the sky. Ed Wood: Oh, you're not gonna make the movie? George Weiss: No, of course I'm gonna make the picture! I already presold Alabama and Oklahoma. Those repressed Okies, they go for that twisted, perverted stuff. We'll just do it without the shemale. We'll fictionalize it. Ed Wood: Is there a script? George Weiss: Fuck, no. But there's a poster. [he holds up a movie poster for "I Changed My Sex"] It opens nine weeks in Tulsa. Ed Wood: Well Mr. Weiss, look no further, I'm your man. I work fast and I'm a deal. I write and direct. And I'm good. I just did a play in Hollywood and Victor Cr

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