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Sean Penn stars as Harvey MilkAmerica's first major openly gay politicanin Gus Van Sant's new biopic Milk. TIME looks back at 80 years of "Based on the life of..." films.
If Tim Burton were ever going to make a biopic, it would naturally have to be of someone as odd as he. Wood, the cross-dressing director of some of the most low-budget cheeseball films to ever come out of Hollywood, would have been an easy figure to mock. Yet Burton and his winning castincluding Johnny Depp as Wood and Martin Landau as Bela Lugosifind the sincerity behind the kitsch, ennobling Wood's full-blown desire to create, no matter how marginal the final product may be.
Read Richard Corliss' article on Ed Wood, "The World's Worst Director"
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