I never saw the Johnny Depp movie, but I've seen many Ed Wood films. They used to come on at 2:10 A.M. on Saturday night/Sunday morning when I was about 15. I used to sneak up and watch them, stifling my laughter with a pillow so I wouldn't wake my parents.

EG, according to one version of the body double story, she was Lugosi's wife. That may be an urban legend (I'm not sure), but she's definitely a 20-something woman. Hilariously, she holds her cape in front of her face to disguise the fact that she is no longer the ancient, dying, Formaldehyde-addicted Lugosi (he had become immune to alcohol intoxication by the end of his life).

The trouble with Ed Wood is that, like Jesus of Nazareth before him, he was such an insignificant and ephemeral-seeming character in his own lifetime that no one really took note of him for posterity. Legends attach themselves to such folk like dandruff to a vicar's frock. In the end, it is the Ed Wood of faith we come to know best.