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| What a difference a conjunction makes! This is not Ed Wood's Glen or Glenda. |
"The eastern world, it is exploding." So what else is new? The eastern world was exploding before I got here, and it'll be exploding long after I'm gone. Look, folks, we may be hurtling toward World War III any day now. Or we may not. I just know that I get a sinking feeling whenever I make the mistake of checking the news. If Armageddon is just around the corner, we'd better have some fun now, huh?
Case in point: recently, reader Edward Fisher contacted me to ask if I were ever going to review the 1994 adult film Glen and Glenda, a direct parody of Ed Wood's debut feature Glen or Glenda (1953). He wrote: "It's an adult film that uses Ed's script almost word for word. Other than the sex scenes it's basically a remake." Normally, I might turn up my nose at something like this. A mid-1990s shot-on-video cheapie probably made in an afternoon or two by people I've never heard of? Not too appetizing. But I'm in a Tyler Durden-ish "let's burn it all down and start over from scratch" kind of mood lately. So what the heck? Let's watch this thing.
Edward kindly offered to lend me his DVD, but the movie itself was pretty easily located online. No, I'm not going to link to it. Do you know how much I already had to censor that header image up there to make it "acceptable" on this platform? Well, it was a bunch. We are living in the golden age of cyber-prudes. I can't take chances. You know how search engines work. Find it yourself. But be forewarned! The Chucky franchise has characters called Glen and Glenda, too, so you'll have to scroll through a lot of "killer doll" stuff before you get to the movie.
