Surely, there needs to be a distinction between Welles himself and an actor (Vincent D'Onofrio) playing Welles in an ideological perspective in a film where very little discrimination is made between a director who undoubtedly made bad films and one with talent who was ruined by the system in Hollywood. In this sense ED WOOD is an ideal conservative postmodernist film, a drooling homage by a director who sees little difference between Welles and Wood - a real questionable equivalence. Tony Williams ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]