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TRIALS OF A TRANSVESTITE
IT WASN’T ENOUGH THAT TIM BURTON'S ED WOOD did little more than trivialize the career of a
truly fascinating fringe filmmaker, but the high profile release of Touchstone’s vacuous comedy for a while threatened to further vilify Wood by driving his magnum opus into even greater obscurity.
A few weeks prior to ED
If “Tommy” Haynes “pulls the string” as advised by Bela Lugosi, his dress might unravel in Edward D. Wood Jr. ’s GLEN OR GLENDA?
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WOOD’S October 7 opening, Paramount Pictures dispatched cease-and-desist orders to all the prominent public domain video houses, insisting that GLEN OR GLENDA? (1953, aka I CHANGED MY SEX) be pulled from release, as it was protected
by a copyright renewal they filed in 1981. The studio’s pursuit of the
film at that time was reportedly undertaken as a favor to its golden child Warren Beatty (making REDS for them), who apparently caught a midnight screening of the film in L.A. and persuaded the studio to acquire it for proper release. Paramount mounted a large-scale, high-profile theatri­ cal reissue, slating a premiere at the upscale Sutton Theatre on 57th Street, only to abort their plans after an embarrassing New
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