Crap. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/16/movies/martin-landau-actor-academy-award-dies-89.html He so deserved that Academy Award for 'Ed Wood'. If you know Bela Lugosi like I do (I even had a dog named after him because I love him so much), trust me, Landau nailed it in spades. Plus, it's a great movie if you've never seen it. And, if you know the REAL Ed Wood movies, it makes it even more of a fun ride. Sigh.
I pictured you as a younger gal. I grew up on the late night horror movies, somehow I missed Ed Wood.
An artist, too. : ) While at Pratt studying art, he became a cartoonist for The New Daily News, and then said frig it. "I am a Master Thespian, I am an actor!" He never gave up drawing, of course. It's never a surprise to me how many people in the arts are a cross-mix. Definitely a connection. Musicians who act. Directors who sing. Dancers who paint. Writers who draw. And the plus side, madness, destitution, and high suicide rates, lol. By all accounts, he was a very, very, nice and decent man, and treated all in the craft with the deepest respect. Some actors can be major buttholes. Not this guy.
'Ed Wood' isn't a horror flick. It's about Ed Wood and his garbage movies along with his relationship with Lugosi. But the Ed Wood flicks themselves are incidentally brilliant. You have to see them to believe them.
+1 on Ed Wood. Watched it several times. I even posted a pic of a poster from Plan 9 From Outer Space a while back in reference to what the Jets plan is moving forward
^Yes. I think they split in the early 90s. Btw, Landau's daughter's performance in 'Ed Wood' was hilarious. Back to Landau, 'North By Northwest'. I read this interview once, don't quote me, but it was something like, some of the movies that I've been in were so bad they should be melted down and turned into guitar picks. Hahahaha.
