[ED WOOD screens Saturday April 14th at 7:00 pm and 9:30 pm at the CWRU Film Society, Strosacker Auditorium,]
Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
I happened to learn the tuition rates lately charged by some
of our local colleges. Would you believe more than $100,000 a year? In Cleveland ? Most graduates
at this point probably won't even earn that much in their lifetimes. Add
student-loan compound interest and you've got a recipe for a post-grad career
major in Despair and a minor in Anger.
Review by Charles Cassady, Jr.
I happened to learn the tuition rates lately charged by some
of our local colleges. Would you believe more than $100,000 a year? In
And it's especially piquant for the film students, those
who, on top of merely paying for the privilege to attend some con-job learning
institution, slave for production costs, film-festival entry fees, psychiatric
counseling etc., working themselves into deeper and deeper holes trying to gain a foothold in a tough media industry overwhelmed with applicants. And all the while it
stares them in the face, that even if they “make it,” most of them will never,
ever be as renowned and as loved as the exceptionally bad filmmaker-tranvestite
Ed Wood Jr.