Yankovic suddenly turns into (naturally enough) a Broadway tap dance number. Jackson stomps his captivating way through “Tyrannosaurus Funk.” Stanley Tucci is the impossibly frenetic caller of the “Rat Race.” Five for Fighting goes full-on big band era with a stunning slow-build/big-finish “Swing Thing.” And when’s the last time you heard Laura Linney and “Weird Al” Yankovic perform a song together? Here they give you the electronic sci-fi “Robot Dance,” which Mr. The ever-wonderful Kristen Bell convinces everyone to just “Dance It Out.” Samuel L.

And the songs are performed by a veritable dream team: The smoldering Patrick Wilson channels Elvis in the rockabilly “Hog Wild” title track. Andrew J Rausch and Charles E Pratt Jr.“Every man, woman, chicken, and child! Come on over now ’cause we’re going HOG WILD!” Great singers, great actors, terrific music, and SUCH a cool illustrated songbook-wild times all around! The irrepressible Sandra Boynton brings you eleven all-out musical tracks, in a dizzying array of dance styles.

Ed Wood: The Early Years (San Francisco, California: Renaissance E Books, 2001) (Shreveport, Louisiana: Ramble House, 2007) Muddled Mind: The Complete Works of Edward D Wood, Jr. (Shreveport, Louisiana: Ramble House, 2001) Ed Wood, Mad Genius: A Critical Study of the Films (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2009)

Nightmare of Ecstasy: The Life and Art of Edward D.

Plan 9 from Outer Space (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Alternate Histories, 2014).

Hollywood Rat Race (New York: Four Walls Eight Windows, 1998).

Orgy of the Dead (San Diego, California: Greenleaf Classics, 1966).

Edward Davis Wood Jrīorn Poughkeepsie, New York: 10 October 1924ĭied Los Angeles, California: 10 December 1978 Two posthumous publications of interest are Wood's memoir-cum-tutorial Hollywood Rat Race ( 1998) and the film script Plan 9 from Outer Space ( 2014). Once the object of wilfully innocent ridicule, Wood's life and films underwent a significant revaluation in the 1990s, boosted by Burton's film, which celebrated Wood's creative dauntlessness, outsider vision and lifestyle, and unwitting anticipation of Postmodern aesthetic values. A tendentiously sanitized and upbeat biopic, Ed Wood ( 1994) was directed, extremely well, by Tim Burton the true story is much sadder. His films are characterized by dreamlike narrative logic, bombastic dialogue, a repertory cast of vivid oddballs (including the elderly Bela Lugosi and the gigantic Swedish wrestler Tor Johnson), and the elevation of budgetary corner-cutting to something like an artform. (1924-1978) US filmmaker and pulp author monumentalized posthumously for his eccentric lifestyle and surreally inept attempts at genre B-movies, of which especially Glen or Glenda? ( 1953) and Plan 9 from Outer Space ( 1959) have attained belated but unassailable cult status.

Hollywood Rat Race by Ed Wood