Yes, folks...it's another one o' them damned roundtables........

The SpeakEasy, Steamed Prawn Buns, and RadioActive Death explore the Devil as an extra.....

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(1953 Screen Classics) Director: Edward D. Wood Jr. Starring:  Dan Davis (Ed Wood), Lyle Talbot, Dolores Fuller

After all these years, I am saddened to report........

...that all those Dio album covers were lying to us.  The Fallen One, the Prince of Lies...that is, the Devil himself, is not as fearsome as we've been lead to believe.  Actually, if one is to take the Ed Wood classic, Glen or Glenda?, for granted, he's pretty darn goofy.  But, any universe that's run by Bela Lugosi has got problems to begin with.  Now...when I think of Beezlebub, the mental picture of the menacing cartoon image brandished on the side of Red Devil brand lighter fluid and flints immediately pops up.  Not some really demented old pervert with a really bad punk haircut (see below)...... Anyways...here's the Plot..and some info.......:

Followers of Wood and his works are familiar with the story of how small time explotation producer George Weiss was set to do a biopic on then controversial Christine Jorgenson, the world first sex change operation subject.  After rights fell through on "her" true tale, Weiss decided he was gonna make a sex change film anyways...he already had a title and posters, so why not? This is where Ed Wood enters the picture... Wood, a closet tranvestite, somehow cons Weiss into letting him write and direct the project...with hilarious results.  Glen or Glenda? is the epic tale of a boy and his dress, which Wood cast himself as the protagonist (billed as "Dan Davis").  It has not a sex change in sight, but.... It does have Bela Lugosi as God...and an appearence by Lucifer himself, prancing around in a silly dream montage.  Obviously, it musta been a slow week in the nether regions.  Plus, the film supports the belief that crossdressers are in league with the devil. This would explain why RuPaul has a career.

Dolores Fuller, Ed Wood...and the Prince of Lies

Now....I've heard my share of King Diamond records and seen The Excorcist, so I've always been under the impression that Beezlebub is a fairly fearsome fallen angel.  One who commands the armies of Hell with an iron fist and torments those who've fallen under his sway currently in the burning lake with glee.  At the least, I figure him to be a pretty savvy trickster much like Claude Raines in Angel on My Shoulder.  But the Devil as presented in Glen or Glenda? seems pretty much a big ham.  Maybe he ain't called the Prince of Lies for nothin'...

"Pull da strings!!!"

Wouldn't that just be our luck, though?  Those of us who practice an organized Christian religion constantly living their lives in fear of a goofy pantomime with serious eyebrow trouble who hangs out with drag queens.  Anton LeVay sure would have some explaining to do, that's for certain.  And where is God in all HIs Majesty in all of this?  In a Heaven that resembles one of Zacherly's old sets, ranting like that senile old relative we all have about puppets.  And, not to mention, strung out on morphine. Maybe he hasn't forsaken us (as many think in these dark times)....maybe Granpa just needs his "medicine". With a Supreme Deity like that, it's no wonder Pure Evil prances around like a campy fruit. And people wonder why I haven't been to church in a decade......