Ed Wood: Made in Hollywood USA - Paperback BookBy Will Sloan For generations, Ed Wood has been known as the worst director of all time. This sympathetic critical study repositions the director of Plan 9 from Outer Space as a maverick independent whose work challenges the boundary between bad and good. When Edward D. Wood, Jr. died in 1978 at fifty four, just days after being evicted from his home, he was largely forgotten. Two years later, he was named Worst Director of All Timea title that