BIBLIO WATCHDOG A Fuller Life


THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DOLORES FULLER By Dolores Fuller


with Stone Wallace and Philip Chamberlin


2009, BearManor Media, www.bearmanormedia.com, PO Box 71426, Albany GA 31708. Softcover, 268 pp., $24.95.


Reviewed by Brett Taylor


Surprises are in store for those who only know Dolores Fuller as a bad actress from Edward D. Wood, Jr. movies. Plenty of readers who have seen Tim Burton’s version of the artist and his muse in ED WOOD will expect to chortle over Fuller’s life with the director and her overplayed angst at learning he liked to dress up in angora sweaters. That story is here, but there’s also, as the punning title would have it, a fuller story. Indeed, so diverse are the ele- ments here, they must have been difficult to shape. The areas cov- ered—cult movies, country music, Elvis movies, just a smattering of poli- tics—don’t necessarily appeal to the same readers, so the Wood hook has been chosen as the one on which to hang the book. It’s kind of ironic, con- sidering Fuller’s five marriages and four husbands, that the love of her life to get the most discussion, as well as his name in the title, would be the man she didn’t marry. Also, given that Elvis Presley figures into the book, it’s surprising that this angle wasn’t played up more, which


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